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Going public: How CFO Lee Kirkpatrick got Twilio ready for its stock market debut
CFO Lee Kirkpatrick of Twilio sheds light on the painstaking work that takes place inside a company as it plans and prepares for an IPO.
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Startup Insurance: Everything Founders Should Know About Protecting Their Company
In the rush to launch, first-time founders sometimes neglect startup insurance. But seasoned entrepreneurs are more likely to invest in it. Learn why here.
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Tactical tips for managing your startup’s cash flow
Good financial hygiene and spending habits will strengthen the odds that your startup will succeed. Read on for smart cash flow management tips for startups
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Startup Playbook - The Idea
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Startup Playbook - A Great Team
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Startup Playbook - Great Execution
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Startup Playbook - Growth
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Startup Playbook - Focus & Intensity
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Startup Playbook - Jobs of the CEO
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Startup Playbook - Competitors
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Startup Playbook - Fundraising
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5 tips for fundraising during a downturn for startups
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A founder's persistence in therapeutics
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Five startup marketing tips for founders
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How to Be a Successful Series B CEO
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Executive Recruiting: Tips to bolster hiring and retain key talent
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The benefits of getting senior-level experience with fractional hiring
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5 trends VCs, investors and founders are talking about
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6 legal considerations for life science and healthcare startups
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Tips on surviving an economic downturn from a serial founder:
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Life science startup hubs: Advantages of Texas
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Life science startup hubs: Advantages of New York
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Help your startup learn responsible spending habits
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A question of capital: Essential advice for first-time founders from those who know
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Supersized seed funding: Blessing or a curse?
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Angel Investing vs Venture Capital: Five things founders need to know
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The Advantage of Oz: Offshore Tax Rebates for LSHC R&D in Australia
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Five Healthcare & Life Science Industry Trends for Startup Founders
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Why incorporate in Delaware?
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Intro from Andrew Oddo
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Types of corporations and how to incorporate your startup
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Venture Capital Term Sheets: A Guide
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What is Venture Capital?
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Healthcare Investments: Latest trends show a spike in capital funding
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Managing startup equity
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Managing Cash Flow After Series A Funding
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How a Construction Tech Startup Used Series A Funding to Drive Growth
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What To Expect From Your Lead Series A Investor
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Turning VC Capital Into Fuel To Accelerate Growth Strategy
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Metrics That Matter: Goal-Setting And Accountability Post-Series A
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Stages of Venture Capital
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What are The Three Stages of a Startup?
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How do startup accelerators work?
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The Most Important Numbers at the Heart of Every Life Sciences and Healthcare Pitch
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A Guide to Starting Your Own Business
While the time may be right, starting a business is hard. But with an idea, a plan, funding and a team to pull it together, you can be on your way to success.
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How to Create a Pitch Deck
While an outstanding startup pitch deck by itself can't land the financing you need, it can certainly improve your chances of getting the meeting you need to present your idea.
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Healthcare and Biotech Go Global
The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on a new reality for the healthcare and biotech industries: thinking globally can be critical to speeding up innovatio
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Making healthcare more accessible across the U.S.
In the past year, the pace of innovation in healthcare sectors like biopharma, health technology, med devices, diagnostics and tools has accelerated. But overall, the industry hasn’t ma
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The Future of Investing in Healthcare Innovation
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on communities and workplaces, 2020 was a banner year for healthcare innovation. Venture investments in four sectors – biopharma, health-tec
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How Venture Debt Works
If you are going to raise institutional venture capital to build and grow your business, it’s worthwhile to consider using venture debt to complement the equity you raise. Venture debt
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Startup Fundraising: How the Pandemic is Changing Opportunities for Founders
During the pandemic, investors are cautious, but that doesn't mean they're not looking to invest. At TechCrunch Disrupt, we discussed recent startup fundraising trends.
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How to Secure Data While Working Remotely
How to protect company data while working remotely for startups. These security tips for remote workers will help you overcome work from home security concerns.
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Planning Back to Office? Here’s How You Can Work Safely in Your Office
COVID 19 has made startups reimagine the work environment. Here is the guide that explains the ways startups should plan to re open and get back to office in the post pandemic world.
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Diversity and Entrepreneurship: Stories From Investors and Founders Disrupting the Startup Ecosystem
At TC Disrupt, we relive the stories of entrepreneurs who succeeded at delivering a social change. Learn about how diversity in entrepreneurship is disrupting the startup culture.
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Defining Company Culture: 6 Ways to Improve Company Culture While Working Remotely
Culture is what turns the ideas of lean startups into businesses. It’s the “blaze your own trail” ethos that Salesforce is known for. It’s the employee empowerment and inclusivity that
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19 Common Misconceptions About Botkeeper
The internet is full of misinformation, and that’s no surprise to anyone. In fact, 52% of Americans believe they’re served fake news on a regular basis. And the leading source of misinf
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10 Compelling Reasons to Automate Bookkeeping in Your Accounting Services
Here’s some exciting news for automation nerds like us: automated bookkeeping services are rapidly gaining in popularity! We know—it’s pretty cool. In fact, according to Sage’s Practice
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8 Tips for Getting Your Firm Acquired
There are lots of reasons why a CPA firm might be ready for acquisition. Business climate changes, firm growth, or partners reaching retirement age are some of the most common.
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The Anatomy of a Great CPA Firm Explained
When you think of a CPA firm that seems to have it all together, what comes to mind? Is it their services and clientele? Their firm size or funding? Maybe it’s their influence in the ac
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Surviving The Internet’s Biggest Downturn Through Forced Reinvention
Amid the uncertainty of Covid-19, retrenchment may be required for some struggling companies to survive. Read on for lessons from Dotcom bust success story
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Surviving an Economic Disaster Means Being Flexible, Except About the Inevitability of Your Vision
Tom Gonser, who stepped down as DocuSign’s Chief Strategy Officer in 2016, weighs in on how companies can survive economic disasters
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How Tech Exec and CEO Bob Tinker Managed To Survive Two Downturns
According to CEO Bob Tinker, crises force founders to question assumptions about how to operate, especially if those assumptions were made during a boom
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A Surefire Path To Startup Survival In A Recession: Revenue, Revenue, Revenue
Entrepreneurs expect to have freedom to create and experiment. But that changes during economic downturns. So how do startups adjust to survive recessions?
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A Key To Startup Survival In a Crisis: Iterating To Product Market Fit
In a downturn, nailing a startup’s product market fit takes on a new urgency. Learn why product market fit is key to surviving crises like COVID-19
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Protecting Intellectual Property: What Every Startup Founder Needs To Know
Learning to protect your IP is critical, your company’s success or failure may depend on it. Explore the four major categories of protection available.
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Shutting Down a Startup: How to Protect Yourself and Your Investors from Liability
For founders, walking away from a failed startup isn't an option. When it does, take these steps to resolve your obligations and cleanly shutdown a startup.
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How Social Media Can Give Your Accounting Firm a Boost
There are usually two ways social media is perceived by accountants. One side, perhaps most often from the newer accountants, loves it and sees it as a great way to stay up to date with
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Breaking Down Blockchain for Accountants in 2020 and Beyond
Blockchain technology, along with being a new buzzword, is also one of the most exciting technologies of the 21st century. A universally decentralized ledger system that can share data
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What We Know About ROI: A New Approach for the CPA
In the scramble to adjust to running an accounting firm during a pandemic, many firms invested in new technology to help them bridge the gap between a traditional in-office operation an
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Do You Have Info ROT? What It is and How to Avoid it
We’ve come a long way from using floppy disks and CDs to store our business data and files. These days, many people and businesses have moved to the cloud for data storage and file mana
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Understanding the Possibilities and Pitfalls of Startup Pivots
An early-stage pivot can save a struggling startup; it can also offer new opportunities to an already successful company. Learn when and how to pivot successfully.
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Create an Investor Pitch Deck That VCs & Angels Will Love
A pitch deck should tell a story that's compelling, credible, and concise. The investors we spoke to tell you what should go in it - and what shouldn't.
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How to Beat The Big Firms by Leveraging Accounting Tech
Not everyone who’s familiar with Jody Padar knows why she’s nicknamed the Radical CPA. In addition to being considered a bit progressive with her online presence, she’s passionate about
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Tips for Maintaining Bookkeeping Disciplines When Your Clients Base Doubles
Rapid business growth and increased sales are often the epitome of a “good problem” for accounting firms. While doubling your client base generally means an exponential rise in revenue,
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Accounting Automation: Expectations vs. Reality
Technology advancements over the past five years have changed the business landscape completely, and the evolution isn't slowing down anytime soon. This is especially true in the accoun
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Startup Costs: Expenses You Should Include In Your Plan
Say you have a great idea, along with a plan for turning it into a product. You even have the chops to pull it off. That’s great. But do you know how much it will cost? Many first-time
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It's Time to Speak Up: A Note from Our CEO
As the leader of an organization of 100+ amazing people coming from various backgrounds, religious views, and lifestyles, it’s always been important to me that we go above and beyond in
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Partner, Rival, Acquirer: A Startup’s CFO’s Perspective on Navigating a Competitive Market
When startups focus on building strong relationships with key players in their market, the partnerships can evolve into an acquisition.
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High Growth And Profitability Are Not Mutually Exclusive: A CFO’s Perspective
Fast growth and profitability aren’t mutually exclusive; startups can benefit from finding the right balance between the two.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "My First 90 Days: A CFO’s Playbook For Steering A High-Growth Startup Toward Long-Term Success"
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My First 90 Days: A CFO’s Playbook For Steering A High-Growth Startup Toward Long-Term Success
Robust financial systems, data analysis and executive team relationships will position a startup for scale.
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Leading On The Frontlines Of Hyper-Growth: A Q&A With Inkling CFO Eileen Treanor
Inkling CFO Eileen Treanor discusses how to build a solid foundation and robust infrastructure in finance operations to enable smooth growth for startups.
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When the Rules No Longer Apply, Be Like a Startup
The world in the time of Corona is upside-down! The first thing to acknowledge is that in the next six to ten months, new legislation, new social and professional norms, and new practic
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7 Tips for Leading a Remote Team During the COVID-19 Crisis
As your accounting firm makes adjustments and settles into a new normal—at least for the next few weeks while COVID-19 remains a serious threat—it can be hard for firm leaders and manag
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10 Marketing Tactics for Accountants During COVID-19
With the current events taking place around COVID-19, business as we know it has changed. The way that accounting professionals conduct their day-to-day has evolved and will continue to
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Beyond the Numbers: What A CFO Learned About Presenting to a Board
In this Q&A, Palvi Mehta delivers critical insights on the importance of storytelling and building rapport when presenting to a board of directors.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Going public: How CFO Lee Kirkpatrick got Twilio ready for its stock market debut"
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Going public: How CFO Lee Kirkpatrick got Twilio ready for its stock market debut
CFO Lee Kirkpatrick of Twilio sheds light on the painstaking work that takes place inside a company as it plans and prepares for an IPO.
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Why You Should Practice Accounting Advisory With Emotion
If there are specific people that business owners trust, their accountant is very high up on the list. Accountants watch over their clients’ finances, make recommendations for cost-savi
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Tm2 Saves 30 Hours A Week with Botkeeper’s Accounting Partner Program
As the Partners watched their business grow, they knew they had a bandwidth challenge. How could they offer exceptional service to their clients and have a successful tax season? With j
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G&N Insurance Saves 50+ Hours Each Month with Botkeeper
When G&N Insurance changed directions to pursue a large partnership, they looked to Botkeeper for time-saving help and efficiencies.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Startup Insurance: Everything Founders Should Know About Protecting Their Company"
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Startup Insurance: Everything Founders Should Know About Protecting Their Company
In the rush to launch, first-time founders sometimes neglect startup insurance. But seasoned entrepreneurs are more likely to invest in it. Learn why here.
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Founder’s Guide to Running a Successful All-Hands
In the earliest days of a startup, company communication is often an informal mix of ad-hoc discussions, brainstorming sessions, and the periodic over-the-shoulder announcement. Eventua
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How To Find and Hire Your First Engineer: For Early-Stage Startups"
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How To Find and Hire Your First Engineer: For Early-Stage Startups
Hiring your first engineer at a startup is incredibly hard. As a founder, you’re already stretched dangerously thin on time. There are bugs to fix, customers to close and any number of
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Set Up Your Company to Hire and Retain New Parents"
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How to Set Up Your Company to Hire and Retain New Parents
As a repeat founder and now a new parent of a 19-month-old toddler, I have learned a lot in the past few months about the ins and outs of juggling parenting while running an early stage
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Building a Company Culture That Inspires Meaningful Work
Work-life balance is never a given in startups. Front CEO & co-founder Mathilde Collin shares how she uses commitments to health and family, hypnotherapy, daily journal sessions, and mo
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "FX Risk Advisory: Manage FX as an Asset Class"
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FX Risk Advisory: Manage FX as an Asset Class
Global investors in equities, credit, real estate, and other assets find themselves exposed to FX as a by-product of investing overseas. After all, their total return will depend not on
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FX Monthly Outlook: 2020 begins with uncertainty and guarded optimism
The new year started with a headache for the dollar. Two of 2019’s major risk events passed in mid-December: the UK General Election and Phase 1 of a US-China trade deal, giving clarity
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FX Risk Advisory: Why Passive FX Management Falls Short
Many growing companies buy or sell currencies only as triggered by operational needs. The cost of an unexpected rate change is usually absorbed as if the expense is unimportant, handled
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "When Things Don't Add Up: How to Navigate Common SaaS Accounting Challenges"
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When Things Don't Add Up: How to Navigate Common SaaS Accounting Challenges
In a world where the average company uses at least five clouds at once to store data and information, SaaS businesses are in high demand. SaaS—software as a service—companies host an a
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "What Percentage of Construction Costs Is Labor? Pricing Your Bids Correctly"
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What Percentage of Construction Costs Is Labor? Pricing Your Bids Correctly
Sometimes there’s truth to the old adage that if you want something done right, you do it yourself. And usually that’s when you’re working on a passion project that requires your own in
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Accounting for Your Construction Company: Common Mistakes to Avoid
No matter what industry you’re in, accounting is one of those critical tasks that requires diligence and attention to detail. Needless to say, it’s not usually the favorite activity for
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How Accounts Payable Outsourcing Works and Why Your Business Needs It"
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How Accounts Payable Outsourcing Works and Why Your Business Needs It
Managing the relationships that your company has with suppliers and vendors is challenging. And the more vendors you have, the more at-risk you are for costly errors in your accounts pa
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Founder’s Guide to the Pre-IPO Secondary Market"
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Founder’s Guide to the Pre-IPO Secondary Market
The increase in activity in the pre-IPO secondary market means that founders, early employees, and investors are receiving liquidity much sooner in a company’s lifecycle than ever befor
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Negotiating Techniques for Startup Fundraising
Even in today’s hot venture capital market, startup fundraising is a tall feat. After jumping through the hoops of creating a pitch deck, getting introduced to investors, pitching to VC
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Investing in Sales and Marketing at Seed & Series A
Having been a part of building Growth teams for the last 7 years across two different startups, I’ve learned a good deal about how and when to invest in sales and marketing, from things
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Creating Your Startup’s Narrative and Pitch"
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Creating Your Startup’s Narrative and Pitch
Creating a pitch deck and meeting with investors are both elemental aspects of the fundraising process—but there is something critical that needs to happen before this in order to have
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How Much Equity Should You Give Key Employees"
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How Much Equity Should You Give Key Employees
Many startups are cash-strapped and use equity to attract and compensate key employees and advisors. This guide explores how much to give who, how to reserve an option pool and other co
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Take Your Startup Global: Q&A with Caitlin Haberberger"
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How to Take Your Startup Global: Q&A with Caitlin Haberberger
Caitlin Haberberger knows the challenges startups face when they decide to go global. Here she offers advice for startups planning to expand across borders.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Tactical tips for managing your startup’s cash flow"
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Tactical tips for managing your startup’s cash flow
Good financial hygiene and spending habits will strengthen the odds that your startup will succeed. Read on for smart cash flow management tips for startups
Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Startup Exit Strategy: When to Sell and Not to Sell"
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Startup Exit Strategy: When to Sell and Not to Sell
Many entrepreneurial successes don't lead to an IPO, and that's fine. Here are other types of exit strategies that can amount to happy outcomes for startups.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Pick a Cofounder"
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How to Pick a Cofounder
As a founder, you might feel you can skip finding a cofounder, but you may want to reconsider. Most experts say going solo diminishes the chance of success.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Marketing to Doctors, Part 5: Measuring and Optimizing Results"
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Marketing to Doctors, Part 5: Measuring and Optimizing Results
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: Marketing to Doctors is Expensive. Blame big pharma. If you’re not doing everything you can to measure and optimize your ad-buy, you’re no
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Botlife: Why We Value Flexibility in the Workplace
“Bot” may be in our name, but robots aren’t necessarily our premium priority at Botkeeper. In fact, we have a whole team of humans behind the bots, and we put their happiness and qualit
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Plan and Create a Construction Budgeting Analysis In 4 Steps"
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How to Plan and Create a Construction Budgeting Analysis In 4 Steps
Construction projects are dependent on material resources and manual labor, making it easy to exceed the budget if it’s not well thought-out. And falling short of resources, labor, or b
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What are the Risks of Smoking While Using Birth Control?
The health risks of cigarette smoking and tobacco use are well-known, but are those risks increased when women take hormonal birth control pills? In some cases, yes. But, some birth con
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Libido and Birth Control
Hormonal birth control methods are some of the most popular contraceptives in the U.S. While birth control is incredibly effective at preventing pregnancy, hormonal birth control offers
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "One CFO’s Key to Success: Understand People Before Numbers"
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One CFO’s Key to Success: Understand People Before Numbers
Amy Kux helped to build several tech startups. Her story offers lessons for finance professionals on the importance of focusing on people over numbers.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Manage Your Angel Investors"
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How to Manage Your Angel Investors
If not managed properly, angel investors can quickly turn from assets to headaches. Learn how to manage relationships with your startup’s earliest investors.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Construction Accounting Basics for Contractors"
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Construction Accounting Basics for Contractors
A day in the life of a contractor is a busy one. You’re up early to answer emails and sort through paperwork before heading to a jobsite. From there your day is full of meetings with su
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Tax Education: Everything You Need to Know about the Federal Tax Deadline"
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Tax Education: Everything You Need to Know about the Federal Tax Deadline
Any American with a pulse knows that individuals and businesses pay a plethora of taxes. But it wasn't always that way. Even though taxes have been around since before the inauguration
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Founder’s Guide to Raising a Series A Venture Financing"
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The Founder’s Guide to Raising a Series A Venture Financing
The snide answer is that you are ready to raise an A when you can convince a VC to give you a term sheet. The more nuanced answer is when you have achieved compelling enough intermediat
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Building a Sales Team From Zero to Ten"
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Building a Sales Team From Zero to Ten
I recently shared a post on building a deal desk function which is a topic I’m often asked about when talking to sales leaders within the growth stage of their startups. While those fol
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App"
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Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App
The pressure of bootstrapping helped us discover the power of the web. As we scrambled to get traction, we learned a lot about SEO, the affordability of cloud storage, advancements in w
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Founder’s Guide to Emotions"
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The Founder’s Guide to Emotions
Emotions aren’t good or bad—they just exist. You can’t control them or choose to not have them and, perhaps most importantly, they are often a signal that is telling you something impor
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How To Build a Startup Advisory Board"
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How To Build a Startup Advisory Board
Building a strong startup advisory board can help startups fill expertise gaps but there are also some pitfalls to avoid. Learn how to recruit advisors here.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Top Metrics for Evaluating Startup Health"
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Top Metrics for Evaluating Startup Health
As your business grows, it becomes more difficult to evaluate the overall health of your startup. VC Mike Kwatinetz suggests using these five metrics.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "9 Challenges All Restaurant Owners Face—And What To Do About Them"
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9 Challenges All Restaurant Owners Face—And What To Do About Them
Someone should really write a tell-all book for business success that includes a money-back guarantee. There's no doubt that we'd buy that book. But since it doesn't exist (yet), the ne
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Bookkeeping vs. Accounting: What's the Difference?"
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Bookkeeping vs. Accounting: What's the Difference?
Unless you’re a bookkeeper or accountant by trade, you probably don’t spend your days thinking about the two (but hey, no shame if you do). Similarly, you probably don’t know that there
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Hire a Bookkeeper"
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Finance
How to Hire a Bookkeeper
So, your business has grown, and you’re finding it difficult to stay on top of your bills, taxes, customer payments, and a ton of other bookkeeping tasks. Sound familiar? Many business
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Order Up! A Basic Guide to Restaurant Accounting and Bookkeeping"
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Order Up! A Basic Guide to Restaurant Accounting and Bookkeeping
Restaurant owners have one of the most demanding jobs around: pleasing foodies. Successful restaurants thrive thanks to serving delicious, mouth-watering food, but that’s not all it ta
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Founder’s Guide to the Investor Communications Process"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
Founder’s Guide to the Investor Communications Process
Any founder who has raised capital knows that fundraising is hectic and stressful. Maintaining the momentum you need to secure favorable terms means keeping track of where you are in th
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview"
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Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview
YC is a well-oiled machine. Over 1,900 companies have gone through YC, giving the partner team a generous sample size to identify positive and negative traits in early-stage companies.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Be a Balanced CEO: Passion, Self-Awareness, and Support"
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How to Be a Balanced CEO: Passion, Self-Awareness, and Support
Leading a startup towards success is no easy feat. Leading a startup through success is even harder. But, that is the life founders sign up for. They are constantly pulled in different
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Founder’s Guide to Allocating Co-Founder Equity"
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Founder’s Guide to Allocating Co-Founder Equity
The decisions made around allocating equity early on in a startup’s lifecycle will have major effects on its long-term financial well-being. It’s important to make strategic decisions n
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Botkeeper vs. ScaleFactor vs. Pilot vs. Bench: Which Bookkeeping Software is Right for Your Business?"
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Finance
Botkeeper vs. ScaleFactor vs. Pilot vs. Bench: Which Bookkeeping Software is Right for Your Business?
Whether you run a startup company or manage a billion-dollar enterprise, bookkeeping is one of the most important tasks for any business. Business owners want (and need) to focus on the
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Overcome Top Nonprofit Financial Challenges"
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Finance
How to Overcome Top Nonprofit Financial Challenges
Shocker: No one enters the world of nonprofits to make big money. In fact, the average salary for an executive director position at a nonprofit is around $61k, which is barely above the
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "What Investors Look for: POVs from the Other Side of the Table"
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What Investors Look for: POVs from the Other Side of the Table
Venture capitalists see hundreds of pitches every year. These VCs and entrepreneurs offer advice on what investors look for to help you net that Series A investment.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Find Investors and Get Email Intros"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
How to Find Investors and Get Email Intros
The key to finding and meeting VCs isn’t cold emails or playing a high-volume game. It’s all in the introductions. And anyone can get them.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Startup Company"
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The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Startup Company
Similar to raising money, the best time to sell your startup is when you don’t need to or want to. Paradoxically, you are probably thinking about selling your startup as you are experie
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Raise a Seed Round"
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How to Raise a Seed Round
Seed rounds and Series A are both part of the path for a startup’s success. However, even though these two types of fundraising are different, I see a large amount of founder confusion
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Debugging Your Startup: What to Do When Things Aren’t Working"
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Debugging Your Startup: What to Do When Things Aren’t Working
Every CEO goes through times when they say to themselves “things just aren’t working.” While this might very well be true, what is not true is the feeling that generally accompanies it:
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Bookkeeping Meets AI: Trends and Predictions for the Future of Accounting"
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Bookkeeping Meets AI: Trends and Predictions for the Future of Accounting
If you’re in the accounting profession, chances are you’re getting used to the integration of various forms of technology in the industry, including machine learning, cloud computing, a
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Executing a Successful Startup Pivot"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
Executing a Successful Startup Pivot
In recent years, the word pivot became one of the buzziest in Silicon Valley. It seemed as if every other startup had switched gears and morphed into a new company. And it sounded as if
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How To Read A Startup Term Sheet"
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FinanceVenture Capital
How To Read A Startup Term Sheet
Founders are often focused on the investment amount and valuation on a term sheet but other terms are just as important. Learn how to read a startup term sheet.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Determine your Seed-Stage Startup’s Valuation"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
How to Determine your Seed-Stage Startup’s Valuation
You have a great idea, perhaps a brilliant one. You may have the beginnings of a prototype and perhaps a partner in crime or two. You’re officially an entrepreneur at the helm of a comp
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "What Founders Should Consider When Distributing Equity in a Startup"
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What Founders Should Consider When Distributing Equity in a Startup
Splits among co-founders can be even or not, but they should be discussed openly. When Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, they split the company 64% to 36%. Google’s co-fou
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "What Startup Founders Should Know About Preferred Stock"
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FinanceVenture Capital
What Startup Founders Should Know About Preferred Stock
In the world of startups, not all shares are created equal. The VCs who finance unproven companies will insist on contractual agreements that mitigate the risks they take with their mon
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Is a Startup Accelerator Right for You?"
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Is a Startup Accelerator Right for You?
A startup accelerator can be a big distraction. Creating a tech company is invariably an around-the-clock endeavor that leaves room for little beyond work. Committing to an accelerator
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "VC Funding: What You May Give Up Other Than Equity"
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FinanceVenture Capital
VC Funding: What You May Give Up Other Than Equity
Investors will demand accountability and some control over your startup You’ve just landed your first VC round: You have a few million in the bank and still own, say, 75% of your compa
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "What Founders Need to Know About Finances and Accounting"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
What Founders Need to Know About Finances and Accounting
Not many startup founders are accountants or potential CFOs. And with an already constrained schedule, it’s easy for tight control over finances to slip away. But it’s critical that you
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Two Investor Emails Every Early Stage Founder Should Master"
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Two Investor Emails Every Early Stage Founder Should Master
Two investor email templates every early stage founder needs to master to help grow and sustain their networks and relationships - before they need need to raise money.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Raising Startup Funds from Friends and Family the Right Way"
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Raising Startup Funds from Friends and Family the Right Way
The majority of entrepreneurs lean on friends and family for their first capital infusion, and yet few take the time to think through the potential pitfalls of those investments. Founde
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Find the Right Angel Investors"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
How to Find the Right Angel Investors
As an early stage founder, you're likely already thinking about the next big milestone: a Series A investment, which will provide the capital you need to scale, as well as institutional
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How Equity Dilution Affects Early Stage Startups"
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How Equity Dilution Affects Early Stage Startups
Early stage founders often need to make time-sensitive fundraising decisions to propel their companies forward, yet they'll freely admit that they rarely understand the long-term implic
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Finding Venture Capital: Why Fit Matters More than Money"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
Finding Venture Capital: Why Fit Matters More than Money
Most founders think of VC funding as the path to success. But like so much else about running a tech startup, it isn't that simple. Raising money during those early formative stages is
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Make Sure Your Cap Table Tells the Right Story About Your Startup"
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How to Make Sure Your Cap Table Tells the Right Story About Your Startup
Cap tables are part of every successful founder's life. They may seem simple at first but can get complicated quickly. Cap tables reveal a lot about you and your company, including who
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Startup Bootstrapping – Understanding the Pros and Cons"
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Startup Bootstrapping – Understanding the Pros and Cons
For most founders, the first round of VC investment provides not only startup cash but also a validation of their entrepreneurial dreams. But that doesn’t mean seeking VC funding right
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Startup Metrics You Need to Master First"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
The Startup Metrics You Need to Master First
As you prepare to pitch investors, a good idea and even a good product are not likely to be enough. VCs will want to know whether you can turn that idea or product into a successful bus
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "5 Things You Should Know About Birth Control"
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HealthWomen's Health
5 Things You Should Know About Birth Control
Somehow through all the grapevine that is social media, many have heard that getting on birth control makes you fat. However, in a study by American Academy of Family Physicians conclud
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "VoxSnap: Steps to Building a Smart Startup"
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Business
VoxSnap: Steps to Building a Smart Startup
Helena Ronis is no stranger to envisioning and building startups. So when she saw an opportunity to solve for a previously unaddressed hole in today’s digital content consumption, Ronis
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Calculate Burn Rate and Understand a Cash Burn Analysis"
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BusinessEntrepreneurship
How to Calculate Burn Rate and Understand a Cash Burn Analysis
When it comes to startups, the adage that “cash is king” only goes so far. Layer in other common industry catchphrases such as “growth at all costs” and “always raise more than you need
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "A Founder’s Guide to Incorporating Your Startup"
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A Founder’s Guide to Incorporating Your Startup
As a founder, you will be faced with a multitude of important decisions. The first is to choose which legal structure is the best fit for your startup. There are multiple ways to incorp
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Marketing IT Infrastructure, Part 2: Messaging & Segmentation
Marketing IT infrastructure requires great messaging and segmentation. In this second article of a five-part series, we walk you through defining your core audiences and crafting a hard
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The Power Woman Behind the $1B Fund that Invests in VC Firms – The Remarkable Story of Ellie Cachette
Ever wondered where venture capital money comes from? Ellie Cachette is the money behind the money. She is the founder of Cachette Capital Management, her own fund of funds with $1B set
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Keyword Research Simplified: Free Tools to Jumpstart the Process
I’m sure at some point you’ve struggled your way through a task and realized the problem is you don’t have the right tools to get the job done. It could be anything. Maybe you’re trying
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Why Top Brands Spend More on Out of Home
The latest Global Ad Trends report from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) states, “successful brands allocate an average 13% of their media budget to out of home.” Since read
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What is Experiential Marketing?
It goes by a lot of names, “experiential marketing”, “event marketing”, “on-ground marketing”, “live marketing”, “participation marketing”, or “special events”. But no matter what name
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Marketing IT Infrastructure, Part 1: Defining the Challenge
Marketing IT infrastructure is hard. In this first post of a five-part series, we explain why IT presents such a tough marketing challenge. The next four posts tackle tactics for lead a
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The Hypergrowth Executive
In this post Breanden lays out a cultural framework for achieving and sustaining hypergrowth—sharing concepts that have steered Toptal clients to double- and triple-digit growth over th
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Hiring a Startup CFO - When to Hire a CFO and Why You Need One
The value of a CFO for a young company is a hotly contested topic. Many argue that they are unnecessary add-ons and that a small, savvy, well-trained financial team can satisfy the busi
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How to Choose the Best Front-end Framework
The JavaScript world is a rich environment with dozens of tools, libraries, and frameworks. But, with lots of options comes a lot of confusion. It really is a double-edged sword. While
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3 Google Analytics Reports You Haven’t Used for Your Magento Store
As the first in a series of guest posts, we’re proud to present this article by Tom Bukevicius, a Chicago-area PPC expert and taco aficionado. At SCUBE, he helps clients make the most o
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It’s Go Time for Gixo – The Fitness App That Will Change Your Life
I recently started using Gixo after the founder Selina Tobaccowala posted about it in our Female Founders Community. I’ve been using a bunch of different fitness apps during the years t
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What it takes to CoDE?
As enterprises start adopting DevOps and Agile development and delivery practices, development turnaround times are getting shorter. Testing teams are under intense pressure to quickly
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Performance test your apps in private, public or hybrid cloud
In the era of application supremacy, every organization promotes its brand, products and services via web and mobile application. Modern software delivery practices change the game for
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Why Performance Engineering Apps is critical for successful cloud migration
Business leaders are increasingly relying on cloud technologies to enable their digital transformation strategies and provide competitive differentiation of their products or services i
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Convert LoadRunner to Open-Source JMeter in Minutes
As agile software development, continuous integration and continuous delivery gain traction in many organizations, the democratization of performance testing is being widely adopted. Th
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "5 Reasons Why It’s Time to Evolve Your Test CoE"
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5 Reasons Why It’s Time to Evolve Your Test CoE
There is no doubt that testing Centers of Excellence (CoEs) have transformed quality assurance for businesses around the globe. But times are changing and new pain points are emerging.
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Democratization is the New Frontier for Scale in Performance Testing
I was fortunate enough to attend both Jenkins World 2016 and Velocity New York 2016 last month. Both shows got me thinking about how the definition of “scale” in performance testing is
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QA Automation Pipeline - Learn How to Build Your Own
In the past years, software delivery has made a big step forward thanks to the implementation of continuous delivery. Quality Assurance is no exception, and the acceleration of the QA p
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3 Things to Consider when Performance-Testing for Data Networking and Telecommunications Systems
Testing professionals working on infrastructure systems found in data networking or telecommunications companies face big challenges in IT automation software as they work to keep their
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Three Ways to Set up Performance Tests in the Cloud
Teams adopting Agile development practices typically embrace open-source tools, reiterative development lifecycles and short sprint planning to help them minimize bottlenecks and releas
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Performance Testing Matters in Pharma
If your pharmaceutical company is like most, you likely rely on business-critical applications to process millions of on-demand transactions for a large and prolific user base. The risk
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Five reasons why a Test Center of Excellence matters in modern software test automation"
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Five reasons why a Test Center of Excellence matters in modern software test automation
It’s easy to see the appeal of open source. It’s free, readily available, and easy to use, modify and distribute. There also are lots of options, including Selenium, Apache JMeter, Web
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3 Things to know when applying Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence to QA Test Automation
Today some forward-thinking Agile teams are starting to probe new ways of wielding machine-learning tactics. Just think about the typical day in the life of a software developer writing
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Open Source Testing for Microservices
These days product companies around the world depend on cloud technologies to sell products quickly and efficiently. With fewer people sitting in front of a computer to buy online these
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Test for Peak Performance, Continuously
“Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” are great for online shoppers looking for hot deals. But for busy DevOps teams, these Peak Events Readiness can be times of high risk and high reward a
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Tailor your Test CoE for Agile Development"
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Tailor your Test CoE for Agile Development
Today’s test CoEs face a dilemma. Software testing has never been more important. But testing processes haven’t kept up with Agile and continuous software delivery trends. Instead of fa
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Save millions from costly software delivery delays
In our blog series on the challenges facing today’s testing Center of Excellence (CoE), we’ve shown how making the move to an open-source testing platform can ensure your testing team’s
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Banish the Fear of Testing Failures
What do the IRS, Meghan Markle and Macy’s have in common? They’ve all been involved in high-profile website crashes. The IRS made headlines this spring when its website crashed as last-
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Proliferation and Complexity in Agile Delivery Made Tenable"
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Proliferation and Complexity in Agile Delivery Made Tenable
Application performance testing is shifting left – and with good reason. Studies show that when testing becomes an integral part of the Agile development process, you reduce time to dep
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Startup Playbook - Closing Thought
Remember that at least a thousand people have every great idea. One of them actually becomes successful. The difference comes down to execution. It’s a grind, and everyone wishes there
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Startup Playbook - Fundraising
Most startups raise money at some point. You should raise money when you need it or when it’s available on good terms. Be careful not to lose your sense of frugality or to start solving
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Startup Playbook - Making Money
Oh yes, making money. You need to figure out how to do that. The short version of this is that you have to get people to pay you more money than it costs you to deliver your good/servic
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Startup Playbook - Competitors
A quick word about competitors: competitors are a startup ghost story. First-time founders think they are what kill 99% of startups. But 99% of startups die from suicide, not murder. Wo
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Startup Playbook - Hiring & Managing
Hiring is one of your most important jobs and the key to building a great company (as opposed to a great product). My first piece of advice about hiring is don’t do it. The most success
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Startup Playbook - Jobs of the CEO
Earlier I mentioned that the only universal job description of the CEO is to make sure the company wins. Although that’s true, I wanted to talk a little more specifically about how a CE
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Startup Playbook - Focus & Intensity
If I had to distill my advice about how to operate down to only two words, I’d pick focus and intensity. These words seem to really apply to the best founders I know.
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Startup Playbook - Growth
Growth and momentum are the keys to great execution. Growth (as long as it is not “sell dollar bills for 90 cents” growth) solves all problems, and lack of growth is not solvable by any
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Startup Playbook - Great Execution
Although it’s necessary to build a great product, you’re not done after that. You still have to turn it into a great company, and you have to do it yourself—the fantasy of hiring an “ex
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Startup Playbook - A Great Product
Here is the secret to success: have a great product. This is the only thing all great companies have in common. If you do not build a product users love you will eventually fail. Yet fo
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Startup Playbook - A Great Team
Mediocre teams do not build great companies. One of the things we look at the most is the strength of the founders. When I used to do later-stage investing, I looked equally hard at the
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Startup Playbook - The Idea
One of the first things we ask YC companies is what they’re building and why. We look for clear, concise answers here. This is both to evaluate you as a founder and the idea itself. It’
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Startup Playbook - Intro
We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable part
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How to Build and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Monday"
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How to Build and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Have you already started load testing for Black Friday? If not, don’t worry. There is still enough time to discover bottlenecks and fix them. But don’t wait any longer - testing your
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Five ways to prepare your Test Center of Excellence to be Open Source, Enterprise Ready"
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Five ways to prepare your Test Center of Excellence to be Open Source, Enterprise Ready
As a QA manager or director of a Testing Center of Excellence (CoE), you likely are always on the hunt for continuous testing processes that can help you deliver quality software more r
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "3 Things to Remember When Performance Engineering for a DevOps Practice"
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3 Things to Remember When Performance Engineering for a DevOps Practice
In today’s competitive world, quality with speed is a must. And that makes DevOps a necessity for businesses navigating a dynamic, ever-changing environment. DevOps practices focus on r
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Eight reasons why Open Source helps improve test coverage for your Test CoE"
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Eight reasons why Open Source helps improve test coverage for your Test CoE
Today, everyone is looking for ways to get top-quality software releases to market faster. The solution, of course, is to test early, test often and test everything through test automat
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Remove QA Bottlenecks with Automated API Testing
We recently introduced the Center of Developer Excellence (CoDE), CA’s vision for how the Test Center of Excellence (CoE) can address the disconnect between continuous software delivery
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Make the change to open source, with peace of mind"
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Make the change to open source, with peace of mind
Application performance testing is shifting left and with good reason. Studies show that making testing an integral part of the Agile development process can boost application quality a
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Fundamentals of Website Redesign – A Case Study"
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The Fundamentals of Website Redesign – A Case Study
It’s not uncommon to finish a website redesign project only to look back and think, “I would have done things differently if I’d known what I know today.”
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "How Kettlebell Kings Uses Instagram Stories to Grow its Revenue"
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How Kettlebell Kings Uses Instagram Stories to Grow its Revenue
“We all had what I guess you call ‘real jobs’,” Jay Perkins told me. Back in 2013, Jay worked at Bigcommerce, an e-commerce software provider where he learned about what it takes to ha
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Out of Home’s Remarkable Shift from Media Measurement to Audience Measurement"
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Out of Home’s Remarkable Shift from Media Measurement to Audience Measurement
The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen once said, “Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation” Out of Home media is currently on the
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The True ROI of UX: Convincing the Executive Suite"
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The True ROI of UX: Convincing the Executive Suite
High-quality customer experience (CX) is arguably the most effective way to drive engagement, spending, and loyalty for any business. User experience (UX)—the term applied more in the c
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How to Break 5 Soul-Sucking Technology Habits
Nir’s Note: In this last in a series of guest posts on the topic of technology habits, Jason Shah shares practical tips he used to regain control over his devices and break bad habits.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Why Should You Include Out of Home in Your Media Plan?"
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Why Should You Include Out of Home in Your Media Plan?
Why Should You Include Out of Home in Your Media Plan? In this increasingly digital age, why should you be including Out of Home media? Why consider OOH when digital online and mobile
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Marketing to Doctors, Part 4: Lead Generation
This is the fourth article in a five-part series on marketing to doctors. In this post, we’ll talk about how to reach your physician audience and capture leads. Previously we talked abo
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Who’s Really Addicting You to Technology?
“Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet,” wrote Tony Schwartz in a recent essay in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady stream of
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Real Reason You’re Addicted to Your Phone"
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The Real Reason You’re Addicted to Your Phone
Do you constantly check your smartphone to see if you’ve received messages or notifications on Facebook? Does your phone distract you from your studies or work? Do your friends, parents
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Time for Digital Hat Racks
The first thing Don Draper does when he gets to his office is give his busty secretary a suggestive wink. The second thing he does is take off his fedora. Finally, depending on the seve
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4 Simple Things I Did to Control My Bad Tech Habits
It’s 2 AM and you’re exhausted, but unable to sleep. You’ve been cycling through Facebook, email, and other online media for hours. You want to stop, but you can’t. This technology-indu
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology"
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The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology
Nir’s Note: Jane McGonigal is a game designer at The Institute for the Future and bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. She spoke at the Habit Summit in April. In thi
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What is Out of Home Media? - An Introduction
What is Out of Home Media? Well... Billboards right? There… that was easy. Hold up, not so fast … When we talk to advertisers that are new to the Out of Home advertising category, th
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Emerging Trends That Will Shape the Future of Digital Out of Home
On July 1, 1941 before the broadcast of a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies (Go Phils!) Bulova watches ran the first official, paid television adv
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The Secret Marketing Power of Evolutionary Psychology
Nir’s Note: Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Consuming Instinct. He spoke at the Habit Summit in April. In this interview with Max Ogle
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Strange Sex Habits of Silicon Valley
My wife put our daughter to bed, brushed her teeth, and freshened up before bed. Slipping under the covers, we exchanged glances and knew it was time to do what comes naturally for a co
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Escape From Message Hell
We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, a new communication system is born — take email or Facebook, for example. Ease-of-use help
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Realizing the Full Potential of Out Of Home Media"
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Realizing the Full Potential of Out Of Home Media
What would you do if we were to tell you that in order to make your advertising campaign work to its fullest extent, you should not only triple your Out of Home budget, but take dollars
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User Growth and Engagement: A Hacker Metric
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my fr
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User Investment: Make Your Users Do the Work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of the tech world. The rise of design thinking, coinciding with beautiful new products like the iPho
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Choosing the Best Name for your Company or Product
So, you’ve decided to have a … company. One of the first (of many) decisions is what to name it, right? This is an important, and often emotional, decision that is no less crucial than
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Marketing to Doctors, Part 3: Content Marketing
This is the third of a five-part series on marketing to doctors. In this post, we’ll examine how to develop effective content to reach your physician audience. Previously we talked abou
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Why ‘Assistant-As-App’ Might Be the Next Big Tech Trend
Whenever I feel uncomfortable writing about a topic, that’s when I know I should write about it. So here goes. This article is about how a new way of designing apps changed my life. But
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Why People Check Their Tech at the Wrong Times
Chances are you’ve experienced the following: You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out
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Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It
Reading Leena Rao’s recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. Rao quotes well-know
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What Triggers The Best Word of Mouth Marketing?
Whether you run a small business or work for a large one, and whether you sell a product or offer a service, everyone wants their stuff to catch on. More users, more sales, and more gr
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The Tesla Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
Ian Wright came to pitch his new business, Wright Motors. We met at DFJ’s offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. He brought with him an invention that was strung together
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The Six Californias Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
When California passed Proposition 30 that allowed the state to go back and tax people more for their income earned the year before, several of my friends decided to leave the state.
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The Skype Video Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
I was fascinated by the new peer to peer technology that allowed people to share files. I met with Napster, Streamcast, and Grokster as I searched the industry. I had gotten the distinc
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The Hotmail Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith were two 26 year olds. Sabeer was a confident Indian who commanded certainty with his every word. Jack was a focused engineer who believed that he could mak
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The Story of Sandhill Road - Tim Draper
I remember walking around with Tom Ford when he owned 3000 Sand Hill Road, which at the time was the most famous address for venture capitalists (now it might be Rosewood or Hero City i
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The Napster Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
One instance of fear killing off a great company was in the case of Napster. I was familiar with the case since one of our network partners, Draper Atlantic, had made the first converti
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The Defy Prison Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
Defy is a non-profit organization that encourages prisoners and ex-prisoners to learn to become entrepreneurs. People who have spent time in prison have a very difficult time getting a
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The Yahoo Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
Here is a story about my own failure to act. My father introduced me to Jerry Yang and David Filo. They were leaving their PhD programs at Stanford University to start a little business
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The Harvard Business School Reunion Story - How to Be The Startup Hero by Tim Draper
In the spirit of making short-term sacrifices for long-term success, I use my class at Harvard Business School as an example. I have kept in touch with a few of my classmates, but mostl
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The Billion Dollar Mind Trick: An Intro to Triggers
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford University. She has all the comp
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Temptation
How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious food or impulsively check email because we find pleasure in the activity. But pleasure is
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The Psychology of Notifications: How to Send Triggers that Work
In his famed experiments, Ivan Pavlov trained his dogs to associate mealtime with the ring of a bell. Pavlov found he could elicit an involuntary physical response in his dogs with a si
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Where is the Web Going?
Within the next few years, technology will improve your life in ways you can scarcely imagine. But if you’re looking for where we’re headed, it’s useful to know where we’ve been and mo
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Coffee and Community: Foster Coffee Company on Growing Their Social Media Following and Business
We spoke to co-founder Nicholas Pidek and marketing associate, Justin Ozanich, about how social media has helped them grow their community and business.
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Where Have The Users Gone?
Step 1: Build an app. Step 2: Get users hooked to it. Step 3: Profit. It sounds simple and, given our umbilical ties to cell phones, social media, and email inboxes, it may even sound p
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Designing to Reward our Tribal Sides
We are a species that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel what others feel, providing evidence that we survive through our
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Are Companies Too Obsessed With Growth? How to Measure Habits
Imagine an entrepreneur showed you the graph to the right for his new app called, “PinterestForDogs.”
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The Next Secrets of the Internet
Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret — they just don’t know it yet. “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often g
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Paid Media: Should You Invest in Ads with Brand Keywords in Google?
You’re probably not going to find your web pages ranked at the top of Google results pages simply because you created awesome content and optimized it for search.
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What Is, and Is Not, Your Product’s Job
Recently, my mom came for a visit. She read my blog and discovered her son has a crazy habit of running barefoot. After some convincing, she begrudgingly accepted my rationale, especi
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Go Ask Grandma: How To Design For Normals
As web watchers, entrepreneurs, and investors search for the next big thing, they’d be wise to focus on innovations that can be easily adopted by technology novices. A recent string of
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How to Turn Visitors into Users
Before you can change the world, before your company can IPO, before getting millions of loyal users to wonder how they ever lived without your service, people need to onboard through a
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The New Facebook Algorithm: Secrets Behind How It Works and What You Can Do To Succeed
The Facebook algorithm is constantly evolving in order to provide a better experience for users. But few changes to the algorithm have sparked as much interest and conversation as the
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How Facebook Marketing is Changing
Facebook, as a platform, is barely recognizable from the social network that launched to connect Harvard university students in February 2004. And looking ahead, the Facebook of five ye
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Mass Persuasion, One User At A Time
Marketers are increasingly personalizing their products and services to meet their customers’ changing needs. But customization used in conjunction with powerful persuasion techniques i
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The Bitcoin Story - Tim Draper
It wasn’t until 2011 when I discovered Bitcoin. Bitcoin was a new currency. One that could be used to store value and pay for anything, not just for advancement in a video game. It was
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How to Scale Lead Generation Using Social Media Content
Lead generation is an important task for any marketing department. And for most companies, lead generation means focusing on creating lead capture forms and driving traffic back to tho
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How Technology is Like Bug Sex
When considering our complex relationship with technology, perhaps it is useful to reflect upon the plight of one particular bug, the male julodimorpha beetle, who like us at times, can
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What You Don't Know About Human Intuition Can Hurt You
A few years ago, Joe Marks, then Disney’s vice president of research, visited Tokyo Disneyland and was puzzled by a particular behavior he observed there. Park visitors were standing in
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Marketing to Doctors, Part 2: Messaging & Segmentation
This is the second of a five-part series on marketing to doctors. In this post, we’ll look at some of the factors to consider in developing your messaging and segmentation.
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Marketing to Doctors, Part 1: Defining the Challenge
This is the first of a five-part series on marketing to doctors. In this post, we’ll look at the some of the reasons marketing to doctors is so hard. In future posts, we’ll examine segm
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GDPR - What Growth People Need To Know
The law is designed to safeguard data privacy for EU citizens, and applies to any business with EU users or customers, regardless of whether the business is based in the European Union
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Ready to Launch? Four Simple Questions to Ask Before Launching Your Product
Before you jump off the deep end and launch your new product, let’s check in on a few simple questions you can ask to make sure the product is indeed ready for prime time. There’s a pop
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The Future is Driven by Interface Changes
What do motorized vehicles, broadband internet, and smartphones have in common? These technologies all introduced new forms of user interface, transforming its user’s daily lives and be
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How to Boost Desire Using the Psychology of Scarcity
Interested in boosting customer desire? A classic study that demonstrates the psychology of scarcity reveals an interesting quirk of human behavior that may hold a clue.
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The Two Words that Created a #1 App: “Yes, And”
In improv comedy, there are really only two words that matter: “Yes, and.” You share a premise, form a scene, create a character, and if everything works out right, kill the audience. T
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Getting Over Your Fear of Missing Out
Although the terminology has only recently been added to our lexicon, experiencing FoMO is nothing new. Most people at one time or another have been preoccupied by the idea that someon
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How Successful Companies Design for Users’ Multi-Device Lives
We live in a world where the number of connected devices is growing on a daily basis at an immense rate, with people constantly switching between these devices (PCs, smartphones, tablet
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Nostalgia: A Product Designer’s Secret Weapon
Nostalgia is powerful. Simply mentioning the names of childhood toys, old TV shows, classic video games, and other pastime activities often instigate an emotional response, reminiscence
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Good Products Start With Good Questions
Monday of the sprint week begins with an exercise we call “Start at the End”. It’s a look ahead—to the end of the sprint and beyond. You and your team will lay out the basics: your long
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3 Ways I Use Technology to Find Happiness
In Moneyball, Michael Lewis tells the story of Billy Bean, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who transformed the A’s using sabermetrics, the data-driven approach to understan
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3 Ways to Make Better Decisions Using “The Power of Noticing”
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Today’s Behaviors, Tomorrow’s Startups
Startups that build a product attached to nascent behaviors have an opportunity to form habits before anyone else. First mover advantage matters. Once a habit is formed, it’s difficult
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Adios Text, Hello Voice
For marketers, what was once a distant whisper is now a confident voice -- and soon to be the center of their marketing strategies. Voice content marketing, while still a nascent practi
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Launching Our Platform to Transform Text to Human Voice
With the VoxSnap platform, companies can transform any written text -- things like white papers or blog posts -- into high-quality audio content. The audio can be embedded into blog pos
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Why I Left My Job to Help Moms Keep Theirs
We’ve all heard that women in the workforce earn an average of 80 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts. This statistic has been repeated over and over for the last fe
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JMeter vs. Locust - Which One Should You Choose?
Apache JMeter and Locust are two of the most well-known and popular performance testing tools used by developers in the IT community and by different companies. In this article we will
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How to Use JMeter Assertions in Three Easy Steps
JMeter Assertions are undeniably valuable, providing the criteria you set to determine whether the a will be considered a “pass.” You can use them to run against a sample and its subsa
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Using IP Spoofing to Simulate Requests from Different IP Addresses with JMeter
It’s not easy today to find a single node system as both failover and resilience are key points of modern applications. So if you need to load test a system, it will likely be something
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Headless Execution of Selenium Tests in Jenkins
As you probably know, Continuous Testing is becoming a more and more important part of the software development life cycle. Since any change to the product needs to be verified prior to
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How to Run a Stress Test in JMeter
Let’s think about the following scenario: a system that displays students’ exams results was tested by multiple automated functionality tests. The performance test results were also pro
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6 Easy Steps to Testing Your Chrome Extension With Selenium
Most of us these days are moving towards Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes. And, in the majority of cases, we have the testing tools and processes to
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How to Monitor Your Server Health & Performance During a JMeter Load Test
Load testing isn’t just about test development and execution. It’s also crucial to analyze the test results and pinpoint the underlying issues. So let’s say you ran your test, got your
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How to Load Test RTMPT Live Media Streaming with JMeter
Real-time traffic as streaming data is becoming a major part of internet traffic these days. The amount of streaming data traffic is growing every day, as existing providers offer new s
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Controlling the Number of Hits Per Second in Performance Tests Using Taurus
This blog post will demonstrate how easy the process is in Taurus to defining the desired throughput in requests per second.
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Create a Checkout Load Test Scenario with Gatling
Gatling is an open source load testing Scala application. Unlike JMeter, Gatling doesn’t have a GUI interface. So, when you want to simulate a given scenario, you do it by writing a Sca
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9 Easy Solutions for a JMeter Load Test Out of Memory Failure
How many times have you seen an error on your JMeter load test, indicating you are out or memory? I’m guessing that most of you have encountered this at least once. Fortunately, there
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5 Reasons You Should Use OpenAPI / Swagger for your APIs
If you develop software today, chances are you are developing Web APIs as well. But while you might not be a company like Twilio that is running a huge public API program, there is stil
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The New HLS Plugin for JMeter - The Complete Guide
Live video usage is soaring as more and more people are watching streaming online content. Therefore, load testing HLS and performance testing live videos, VOD and events is becoming a
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Navigating your First Steps Using Taurus
Taurus provides a simple way to create, run and analyze performance tests. Today we will look at some of the first steps to using Taurus.
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Load Testing Mobile Apps Made Easy
As always, we start by creating a test script - we are using JMeter. But, before the script development we need to configure our mobile device, which will be used for test recording. J
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Jenkins vs. Other Open Source Continuous Integration Servers
Continuous integration is now a vital part of the modern software development life cycle. When developers create new features or fix defects, it’s critical that new code changes won’t h
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Is JMeter a Viable Open Source Alternative to LoadRunner?
Performance testing for websites is something which, in the past, was mostly done with software tools installed on local machines. Take for example HP's LoadRunner, probably the most we
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How to Use HTTP Basic Authentication in JMeter
Occasionally, you’ll need to test URLs that can sometimes be restricted from anonymous visits. The types and resources can vary from corporate libraries and knowledge bases to targeted
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How to Use a Counter in a JMeter Test
When it comes to building various types of advanced JMeter test plans, which include not only replaying a recorded test scenario with an increased number of users, but something more co
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How to Start Working with the GitHub Plugin for Jenkins
The GitHub plugin for Jenkins is the most basic plugin for integrating Jenkins with GitHub projects. If you are a GitHub user, this plugin enables you to...
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How to Simulate Different Network Speeds in Your JMeter Load Test
For starters, it means that now, more than ever, we need to focus on mobile users when running performance tests. If our mobile site or application doesn’t perform well - we stand to lo
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How to Load Test HTTP Live Media Streaming (HLS) with JMeter
These days, video is probably the most popular type of online content. As such, it’s essential for online magazines and websites to provide high quality video content worldwide and ensu
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How to Include Load Testing in your Continuous Integration Environment
If you’re following CI processes, you need to test every change made to your codebase as early as possible. Using tools like Jenkins, TeamCity and Bamboo, developers continuously integr
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How to Automate Testing Using Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins and Allure
In order to create automated testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment, with the objective of creating a continuous testing (CT) flow, you will need to familiarize yourself w
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Continuous Integration 101: How to Run JMeter With Jenkins
When a developer is working on a new feature or fixing a defect, he needs to ensure that these changes won’t have a negative impact on other software parts which were previously working
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API Testing With JMeter and the JSON Extractor
There are many tools and approaches to testing and automating API testing. But while different tools are fit for different needs, JMeter has a big advantage for users who load test. Wit
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A Load Tester’s Guide to JMeter and BlazeMeter
A common question we get from folks interested in our solution is how they can transition from LoadRunner and other legacy tools to JMeter and BlazeMeter. They see the benefits of open
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Taurus - Working with Multiple JMeter Tests
In this post in our series on Taurus, we look at overcoming the challenge of working with multiple test script files, with multiple engineers involved, when load testing complex applica
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Spring Boot REST API Unit Testing With JUnit
Unit Testing APIs is an important part of API testing, because Unit Testing ensures that API components will function properly. In this article we will learn how to cover Spring Boot Re
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Running a JMeter Test via Jenkins Pipeline - A Tutorial
The release of Jenkins 2.0 has introduced a new project type - Pipeline, which was previously available through plugins only. Starting from Jenkins 2.0, Pipeline projects come out of th
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Open Source Load Testing Tools: Which One Should You Use?
Is your application, server, or service delivering the appropriate speed of need? How do you know? Are you 100-percent certain that your latest feature hasn’t triggered a performance de
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How to Use Postman to Manage and Execute Your APIs
APIs make it possible for any two separate applications to transfer and share data between them, and makes it easier for an application users to execute actions without having to use th
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Top 14 Monitoring Tools that Every DevOps Needs
The DevOps toolbox is jam-packed - from configuration management and integration management to delivery management and monitoring tools.
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Using the HTTP Cookie Manager in JMeter
Depending on your web-application complexity, you can create JMeter test-plans of two types: hits-oriented and scenario-oriented.
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REST API Testing - How to Do it Right
REST is a software architecture style, commonly used for web services. Due to its popularity, you will probably need to load test RESTful APIs at some point. API testing can be done wit
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Windows Authentication with Apache JMeter
In this post we will provide a walkthrough of how to deal with advanced external authentication mechanisms with Apache JMeter, focusing on Windows protocols of NTLM and Kerberos.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Taurus: A New Star in the Test Automation Tools Constellation"
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Taurus: A New Star in the Test Automation Tools Constellation
When it comes to performance testing, JMeter is fantastic... but not perfect. Automation and integration with other systems can be a pain, and the tool itself comes with a steep learnin
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Testing REST API File Uploads in JMeter
Simulating a file upload in a JMeter test is fairly straightforward and easy. Given that you provide a valid path to a file (either full or relative) and check the “Use multipart/form-d
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WebSocket Testing With Apache JMeter
WebSocket is a protocol that provides full-duplex bi-directional communication over a single TCP connection using default HTTP and HTTPS ports. It is supported by the majority of moder
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What is the Relationship Between Users and Hits Per Second?
We’re often asked about the difference between Concurrent Users and Hits or Requests per Second, also known as Throughput. Teams want to know the numbers they should be shooting for as
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Why It's SO Important To Use JMeter's HTTP Request Defaults
The HTTP Request Default is one of the key JMeter elements, occurring in nearly every testing scenario. The main goals of using the HTTP Default Request is to: 1- Avoid data duplicati
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What’s the Max Number of Users You Can Test on JMeter?
In this blog post we are going to discuss a question that actually doesn’t have an exact answer - what’s the maximum number of users you can test on Apache JMeter? Limits usually depend
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The Ultimate DevOps Tools Ecosystem Tutorial - Part 1
With the development process “shifting left”, DevOps is becoming a crucial part of any software product or service. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the number of tools for DevOps keeps
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Testing SOAP/REST Web Services Using JMeter
The Representational State Transfer (REST) uses the HTTP request method, and the most popular are GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. Responses to these requests return status codes indicating s
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Performance Testing vs. Load Testing vs. Stress Testing
If you’re a developer, QA engineer or DevOps, you know you need to conduct different types of performance tests, to make sure each code change or feature added (a) doesn’t break the sys
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How to Load Test with Gatling and Taurus
The open-source community often discusses whether to use JMeter or Gatling for load testing. Both are strong tools, and they become even stronger through Taurus. This blog post covers t
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Five Ways To Launch a JMeter Test without Using the JMeter GUI
The JMeter GUI should only be used for test development or debugging. We do not advise using JMeter in GUI mode if you are initiating an actual load test, even with JMeter's updated GUI
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Automated Performance Tests in Jenkins Continuous Integration Environments"
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Automated Performance Tests in Jenkins Continuous Integration Environments
Continuous Integration (CI) is important for developers, as they can integrate code into a shared repository and verify each check-in with an automated build, deploy and test the proces
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How to Get Started With JMeter: Part 1 - Installation & Test Plans
Apache JMeter is the leading open-source tool for load and performance testing. This blog post will focus on installing JMeter and creating test plans.
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Why Your Goals Will Fail, and What You Can Do About It"
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Why Your Goals Will Fail, and What You Can Do About It
If you’re like most people, you have a New Year’s resolution in place and you may have even stuck to it so far this year. Good for you! Realistically though, you’re going to fail. How
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Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break
Until recently, when I needed a break I’d grab my phone. Whether I was bored, mentally fatigued, or just wanting a pick-me-up, I felt relief checking the news, Facebook, or Instagram.
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Conquer Distractions With This Simple Chart
Is the world more distracting? Sometimes it seems that way. With our digital devices buzzing, world events demanding our attention, and more things to entertain us than ever before, it
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It’s How You React to Failure that Matters: Why Ego is the Enemy
People make mistakes all the time. They start companies they think they can manage. They have grand and bold visions that were a little too grandiose. This is all perfectly fine; it’s w
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Train to be an Amateur, Not an Expert
Today’s top selling books are about how to acquire world-class skill. Daniel Coyle’s, The Talent Code looks at how deliberate practice is required to achieve greatness. Joshua Foer sho
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What A-Players Do That You Don’t
What if I told you I know of a guaranteed, foolproof way to get in the best physical shape of your life without strenuous workouts? How would you like to achieve success at work, witho
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I Will Promote Freedom at All Costs - Tim Draper
The more I live, the more I travel, and the more people I meet, the more I realize that freedom matters most. Free people are capable of anything. Free countries outgrow government cont
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How to Design Behavior
Everyone suddenly seems interested in messing with your head. Gamification, Quantified Self, Persuasive Technology, Neuromarketing and a host of other techniques offer ways to influence
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The Number One Reason Good Habits Don’t Last
A commonly quoted and incredibly scary stat reveals that 9 out of 10 people who undergo heart bypass surgeries as a result of poor health are unable to change their habits, even with th
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This Simple Equation Reveals How Habits Shape Your Health, Happiness, and Wealth
In 1936, a man named Kurt Lewin wrote a simple equation that changed the way we think about habits and human behavior. The equation makes the following statement: Behavior is a function
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Would You Take A Bet That Would Change Your Life? Probably Not. Here’s Why
Changing habits is hard. But what if there was a way to dramatically improve your odds of quitting even your worst habits? What if this method was shown to be over 8 times more effectiv
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What Makes an AWESOME Blog Post? One that Continues to Deliver a Steady Stream of Traffic
What makes an awesome blog post—a post that keeps generating traffic month after month? It’s a matter of looking at the data. Our Quick Wins guide will help you get started writing blog
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Everything we do in SEO starts with Smart Keyword Selection
Everything we do in SEO starts with smart keyword selection. Everything comes down to the words buyers use in Google whether typed into the browser, using voice dictation, spoken into
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Variable Rewards: Want To Hook Users? Drive Them Crazy
The Hook Model goes beyond reinforcing behavior; it creates habits, spurring users to act on their own, without the need for expensive external stimuli like advertising. The Hook Model
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The Behavioral Economics Diet - The Science of Killing a Bad Habit
Diets don’t work. Studies show that temporary fixes to old habits actually make people gain weight. Essentially, the dieter’s brain is trained to gorge when off the diet and inevitably
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Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts
Face it; you’re hooked. It’s your uncontrollable urge to check for email notifications on your phone. It’s your compulsion to visit Facebook or Twitter for just a few minutes, but someh
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The Mind-Hack I Used to Help My Father Lose Weight
When my family immigrated to the United States in 1981, my father weighed 185 pounds. He came chasing the American dream but got more than he expected. Along with a new, more prosperous
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Psychology of Sports: How Sports Infect Your Brain
Gibson’s army. They screamed with excitement and anguished in defeat. Many paid thousands of dollars to travel around the globe to be there. Among those who did not attend, 90% of peop
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Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire
Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or ev
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Stop Building Apps, Start Building User Behaviors
Do you get the feeling apps are getting dumber? They are, and that’s a good thing. Behind the surprising simplicity of some of today’s top apps, smart developers are realizing that they
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Infinite Scroll: The Web’s Slot Machine
A few years ago, everyone was clicking. Today, we’re all scrolling. Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium – it seems everyone is getting on the infinite scroll bus. What i
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Hooking Users In 3 Steps: An Intro to Habit Testing
The truly great consumer technology companies of the past 25 years have all had one thing in common: they created habits. This is what separates world-changing businesses from the rest.
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Getting Your Product Into the Habit Zone
As the web becomes an increasingly crowded place, users are desperate for solutions to sort through the online clutter. The Internet has become a giant hairball of choice-inhibiting noi
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Stepping Out of My Bubble: Meeting the Homeless in Silicon Valley
Charlie Joe, Dominique, Tiffany, John, Carlos, Alex. I’m very bad with names. Bad as in, I already forgot your name after you just told me, especially after meeting a lot of people in a
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The Psychology of a Billion-Dollar Enterprise App: Why is Slack so Habit-Forming?
Slack isn’t just another office collaboration app. The company has been called, “the fastest-growing workplace software ever.” Recent press reports claim that “users send more than 25 m
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Here’s the Social Media Content Your Audience Does NOT Want to See You Post"
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Here’s the Social Media Content Your Audience Does NOT Want to See You Post
Let’s be honest for a second here. When it comes to quality, a large amount of social media content posted by brands isn’t good. In fact, in terms of subject matter, copy, photo quality
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The Fallacy of the Funnel
When I first arrived on the scene as a demand marketer over a dozen years ago, I did so armed with a spreadsheet model for the funnel I was going to fill with leads and pipeline opportu
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How to Email a VC - Rubicon Venture Capital
VCs receive so many emails that it is frustrating to open an email and not see enough information to understand if this merits a phone call or meeting. It is VERY frustrating if the ema
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The Development of Performance Testing - Center of Excellence to Open Source
Modern software delivery practices change the game for what’s possible and how quickly your team can go from an idea to realization. These are exciting times, whether you are far along
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4 Top Tips for Your Team When Developing a New Feature
As a backend developer, I recently worked on a big feature for our web app. The feature required a massive change on our backend code, a big change on our frontend and multiple migratio
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How Automated API Testing Makes Organizations Successful
As applications are interacting more and more through APIs, businesses and brands are becoming increasingly vulnerable to APIs having outages and issues. Major companies who experience
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You are Now Free to Shift Left
Is “performance testing” synonymous with LoadRunner or Performance Center in your world? Has your organization invested weeks, months or years into building LoadRunner VuGen and TruClie
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Test Coverage at Speed: Performance, Functional and API Testing"
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Test Coverage at Speed: Performance, Functional and API Testing
The application economy we are living in has made flawless application performance an inherent part of a company brand and revenues. Even a small error or a single failed application ca
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Continuous Testing: The Next Step in the Software Lifecycle Evolution
Software is eating the world and the app economy is exploding. While consumer expectations have never been higher, test coverage is not keeping pace with the exponentially growing numbe
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Writing Effective Emails - Make Sure You’re Getting Heard
Email has been around for well over a decade and is a valuable tool that most of us use daily. Because so much of our business communications are done via email, it’s incredibly importa
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Defensive Domain Strategy: Don’t Be Like Donald"
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Defensive Domain Strategy: Don’t Be Like Donald
An oft-overlooked piece of developing your online presence is your domain strategy – and your defensive domain strategy. Just ask Donald Trump. Although the Trump Organization apparentl
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How to Drive Triple-Digit Increases in Social Media Reach and Engagement
One of our clients, Lazarex Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit that improves patient access to cancer clinical trials, was having some success with their social media but wanted it to be a
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Why Content Management Systems Should Publish Beyond Websites
It’s 6 AM and the alarm rings on your smartwatch. It’s time to start the day! So you check the weather forecast on the watch. As you head to the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee, you spe
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How Much Should You Pay for a PPC Lead? What Do Your Competitors Pay?
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is an effective way to generate website traffic. PPC is, in fact, the fastest road to being on Google’s first page for relevant search results, especiall
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Alexa, tell VoxSnap to play "Ten Tips for Driving 31% More YouTube Video Views in 3 Months"
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Ten Tips for Driving 31% More YouTube Video Views in 3 Months
The client’s YouTube channel had a rich collection of over 80 videos that were languishing with low views. In 3 1/2 months after optimizing the channel, total video views jumped 31% whe
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Top 10 Must-Have Online Tools to Efficiently Run your Business
Every day, we use dozens of tools to communicate, run our web agency, and in working with clients. 3 important criteria driving our choice of web-based tools
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What Wikipedia Can and Cannot Do For Your Business Part Two
There are two things businesses should realize when they’re looking to leverage Wikipedia to drive website traffic
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Turn the "Heat" Up on your Website: Instantly See What Site Visitors Are Doing
Do you know which website content captures site visitors interest? Earlier this year I tested a tool called Crazy Egg that displays clicks as “heat maps” and now I can’t live without i
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5 Steps to Optimize Images for Google Image Search
Why Care About Image Search? Optimizing your images with file names and good alt tag descriptions is another easy way to let Google know the theme of your web pages, which in turn impr
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Google’s Top 10 Best Practices for Mobile Landing Pages and Sites
All it takes is a quick look at your landing pages on a browser-enabled phone or tablet to understand the challenges your visitors face.
Not sure if your website is mobile-friendly?
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What Wikipedia Can and Cannot Do For Your Business Part One
There are two things businesses should realize when they’re looking to leverage Wikipedia to drive website traffic
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Build your Own SEO Reporting Dashboard
How Does My Site Rank in Google? As search marketers, our clients want to know how their sites are performing in Google. They want to know how often their web pages appear in Google’s
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B2B Lead Generation. The Power of Online Tools to Drive Targeted Traffic Year-Over-Year
Tools are the new Traffic Magnet: A case study presenting our site’s results from creating online marketing tools.
THE RESULT There’s no question that online tools take effort to de
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Simple Data-Driven Strategies to Fast-Track Lead Generation
In this post, I want to put the points I just made together, break down the website lead generation process to its simplest form, and share four approaches that focus on website analyti
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Getting High on Google Search: The 3 Secrets to Success in Organic Rankings
Appeal to both people and search engines. If search engines can’t find you – people won’t either!
Everyone’s searching for everything on Google. They’re going to find the company and
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Get High on Google: The Foundation of SEO and Keyword Use
The Most Effective Way to Use Your High-Value Keywords in Online Content to Rank Higher in Google Improving search visibility starts with keyword research. Getting Started with SEO
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Why Content Marketing Should Be Part of Your SEO Strategy
As the tides of SEO turns in favor of site relevancy, content marketing continues to gain importance in overall search strategy.
A recent Forbes article called content marketing “one
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9 Quick Wins to Instantly Boost B2B Lead Generation
Cut through your list of marketing activities and apply these quick wins to boost B2B website leads.
If you’re struggling with a long list of demand generation activities, wondering
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Best Practices for Optimizing PDF Files
In the world of SEO optimization, PDFs often get short shrift.
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Boost Brand Awareness, Increase Customer Acquisition, Lead Generation and Loyalty with Content Marketing
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Research shows that audio and podcast consumptions surge across the nation, half of Americans listen to online audio weekly.
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In day-to-day life, there are these slots of time where you can’t really interact with text or read. Whether it’s
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For eCommerce marketers, mobile has never
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The greatest wealth is health. – Virgil
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