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I don't know if I agree with everything here.. is the goal to capture emails/signups, or to get users that will use your product and provide meaningful feedback?

I know it's a chicken and egg problem, you want a large enough sample base to get users using the product but with vague messaging you are attracting people that wont use your product (people that you shouldn't target) and people that WILL use your product but don't understand the vague messaging. I would suggest taking all versions of the page and signup methods to test usability of the product. Optimizing on the initial signup is great, but if your users don't use the product after they signup bc it's so vague.. then you've just wasted all that optimization effort. Unless the goal is to create a huge list of signups.

Also, where is traffic coming from? Paid, organic search, social media, press release, tc, etc? That has a huge difference on your results. And what tools are you using to run the tests and what is the sample size? I think readers would love to hear those tidbits too

Thanks for sharing your findings.. good luck =)

i know thumbnails take up lots of space, but I don't remember titles.. i remember movie covers. Adding thumbnails would help immensely, it's an extra click away.. but still an extra click

what is your budget and timeline?

Can you ask your network vs cold call emails?

Maybe check out - http://www.scoutzie.com/

lol..works on mobile too

i too love cheeseburgers

I was motivated to share this fantastic post with other people on social networks

Curious if this is for personal or a website/service

This confirms Google can't win the TV race without owning internet access

> GitHub works because people are sharing their code. If you worked on a marketing campaign, are you going to release your market research with what works best to your competitors? If you create a product, are you going to ignore patents and release that design/schematic for free?

Why not share the campaign details after the campaign is over? What do you have to lose? Should you really rinse and repeat for the next marketing campaign? No. that's lazy.

Perhaps marketing campaigns are a bad example, but let's say a KPI Dashboard or a set of tools that worked well to make better informed decisions

Besides the constant need to evolve, what is the main advantage of this new connector?

Funny enough, I sit in the same boat.. tethering on my 6 gig data plan, waiting for my internet technician, only 2 more sleeps to go

Bit off topic, but why aren't people crowdsourcing their internet connection in high rise buildings? I'm sure time warner and every other isp's would just love that

Hope Bill can find work through your post. Kudos.

Of course, would never take money that no one couldn't afford to lose

Gold. Good for him, shame on those reporters that never checked their resource

"The key question is not whether there ARE tech companies getting started in Canada, it's whether they will stay in Canada once successful to help re-invest in the industry here."

I think that movement is changing.. Yes, it's harder to raise money up north but the cost for talent and gov funded programs here make Canada one of the most attractive places to start a company. Once established, why move down south?

How did you handle that? And what was the outcome?

good idea

I used the nexus 7 for a few hours and I found the transitions and ease of use difficult. Not as intuitive as the iPad. Playing around and sending content to the TV and it's not as smooth as airplay. I found the actual screen size awkward. I didn't know how to navigate or read pages. Do I place both hands behind the device and use my thumbs to navigate? Or do I place one hand behind the device and use the other hand to drive? Guessing I would quickly get over that with more use, but it was refreshing to try something different...

Missing some for sure, would be great to include incubators outside of America (Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, etc)

Growlab is one of the bigger ones from Canada

http://www.growlab.ca/

amazing.. thank you, thank you, thank you

Odd.. some sites look optimized, while others do not.

When i view the homepage and zoom in, it starts to do funky things

Screenshot - http://cl.ly/image/2Z3v3B2F3R0z

When I view the individual contributors sites on my mobile device it renders properly.

photos seem fake to me..

I love Jerry.

I saw an older documentary and it was very surprising to see him as a huge stressball before jumping on stage.. but he always delivers

hipster =p

did you keep the uniform?

a few ideas

1) search on social networks, if they (domain) have an account look at who they are following

2) search to see if it's a dedicated host, what other domains are on the server.. look at that whois and contact info

3) search google or way back time machine for old versions of the site (scroll to bottom to see if contact info)

4)pray the generic email works

5) register a diff tld (.ly .it .me .co etc)

Cool! I signed up and even paid

Would be cool to add comments and domains you already own to the list

Ha, nice title

I thought this was a thread on entrepreneurs that constantly tell the world they are working hard on social media sites versus actually working hard

Any speculation on price?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/involver

700k customers (agencies/brands).. pretty huge

no mention of youtube, apple tv, get glue, or chill.com

insane