My team and I are going to start doing data dumps of intriguing things we’ve found. Here’s the first one. In a month, as a team we generally look at several hundred charts and graphs many times for the purpose of figuring out how we will acquire customers and distribution for a new product or […]
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I’ve spent time researching developer founders who have made outsized returns. I’ve found that many of the ones making beaucoups of money are signed up for fintech companies that most of the developers I’ve met have never even heard of. Developers who know how these technologies work and have used them before have a higher […]
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When you leverage risky capital to do non-risky things, I’m not sure how that plays out. I’m probably wrong, but I’m keeping a running list of banking startups I’m tracking here. I’ll keep updating this list. Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley continue to back SynapseFI abstractions with pretty front ends, data science, strong teams, and compliance […]
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These are some of my best sales automation and cold outbound posts: https://engineersf.com/email-deliverability-brouhaha/ https://engineersf.com/500-cold-email-templates/ https://engineersf.com/how-to-be-the-pablo-escobar-of-leads-and-get-500m-emails/ https://engineersf.com/dont-send-a-human-to-do-a-machines-job-a-note-to-sales-teams/
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If you want to understand why NO-one will revolutionize banking overnight in the United States, not even silicon valley with its naiveté and responsive websites. Then read this:https://www.federalreserve.gov/…/…/2014/files/2014113pap.pdf The only thing you can revolutionize is how you acquire customers in USbanking
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I’m going to periodically keep adding items to this list. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s pretty good. I’ve always agreed with Rommel: “The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.” I think this is true of web as well. The internet is a gangster’s paradise, I’ve always believed you […]
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http://www.yesware.com/blog/cold-email/ https://www.hubspot.com/sales/crm-ready-sales-email-templates http://www.criminallyprolific.com/cold-email-template/ https://attach.io/sales-email-templates/ http://www.artofemails.com/cold-emails#product https://blog.leadgenius.com/cold-email-template-got-1-b2b-startup-50-new-leads/ http://templates.woodpecker.co/http://1leadaday.com/breakthrough-bundle/
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One of the most important things we can learn about ourselves is fallibility. George Soros, the billionaire investor, talks about fallibility and reflexivity and his theories on how they made him a billionaire. Fallibility is a big word, and we should be careful of big words in all things web, because the average reading age in the USA […]
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There’s 200,000 new apps that come out each month, but very few will be successful. There’s 8–10 genetic marker tests that come out each day, very few if any are decipherable/can be tied to as an indicator of disease. There’s ~60k genetic tests on the market. 3000 types of steel exist, and 80% of them […]
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At the zero to x stage of a web venture, I only care about 3 types of analytics/custom reports. Scroll Depth — I want to know how far down the page the user is scrolling. Referral Links — I want to know which full referral links are driving the most converting traffic. This allows me to give […]
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Westerners on the whole are pretty lousy negotiators, not because they’re incapable of being good negotiators, but because the vast majority of them have never truly negotiated a multitude or variety of things outside of a car, house, or salary. In America, consumers go to the grocery store and prices are static/set/non-negotiable. The negotiation muscle […]
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I follow Cdixon on Twitter. He’s an investor at A16Z. I wanted to I’ve been reading his post What’s Next in Computing. and figured it was worth adding something about the nature of EDA’s open source progress. The piece is worth a sit down and read. He makes a good key point that I wanted to expand upon. Moore’s […]
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