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Do you have a lot of traffic to optimize for? It looks pretty new, if it's just a trickle you need to solve that problem first.

It also gives me the impression this is just for startup founders to share their startup with other founders. That's not very good or important traffic for most companies so if you're reaching a wider demographic you could elaborate on that.

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No not a lot of traffic right now. I figure the higher i can get the conversion rate with low traffic, that should only save me money ramping up the traffic. It is for startup founders - more precisely B2B startup founders. I think a lot of B2B startups could stand to benefit from using each others products. But you're right - that traffic would not apply to most companies outside of that niche. Thanks for the input. :)

If a handful of registrations is enough to skew your results you won't be able to accurately conclude anything from your experiments.

This is a good read, the stuff about "busy work" - even a bad conversion rate will outperform your best effort at scale, it's very easy to distract yourself with the wrong work when the hard stuff is so much harder.

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-post-yc-slump

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