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A good example of this is "eShares" now known as Carta.

Here is their rebranding announcement:

https://carta.com/blog/eshares-is-now-carta/

user base.

Does anyone know where this website get its data from? Are there public data sets that they are pulling from?

"People never trust an accommodating man with important things. That may sound harsh and cynical, but check it up in your own experience. If you have a severe illness, for example, you turn to the busiest, most exacting doctor in town. The fact that he is busy and can’t be bothered by little things gives you confidence in his ability and judgment."

His demo is likely younger, and thus uses Snapchat more frequently than instagram

Here is what someone with that job title would do at Hooli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snBl7KE0bSs

It seems pretty obvious based on Trump's choices for head of EPA, DOE, etc. that even if he is "keeping an open mind" he is appointing people to positions of power that have anything but an open mind in regards to climate change and environmental stewardship.

His recent interview was probably just political posturing so he doesn't get lambasted by the media while he is making these appointments.

The article is from 2014 and it is about a paper studying "social effects in consumption" in a controlled situation (i.e. while you are stuck in an airplane), and another paper about social influences of high schoolers signing up for an SAT prep class.

While the studies are interesting, it is hardly worthy of the click-bait title.

TL;DR if you sit next to someone on an airplane who buys a drink you are 30% more likely to buy a drink yourself (and presumably the study successfully controlled for people traveling together).

Edit: The post title was just changed from what I clicked on "People around you control your mind: The latest evidence" which was so much more entertaining!

That was just when they were brainstorming new ideas. The emphasis was also on the team lead enforcing this policy, which is definitely achievable if you are a good manager.

In all I thought this sounds extremely effective, especially compared to how they started i.e. "meandering product meetings where we didn’t write down our decisions".

The single 5 star review had some pretty insincere as the "advice to management":

It's pretty easy to openly communicate with management (all the way up to c-level) in my experience, no need to put it on some website when you could discuss it with them directly.

Yes - this in no way conveys productivity when full screen on a thunderbolt display.

Best buzzfeed article I've ever read. Might even be the best UX user story I've ever read. Talk about finding an evangelist of your product to talk about what they like/don't like.

...[Mossberg] fingered iTunes for the desktop "I dread opening the thing"

This is so spot on. It feels like they rearrange iTunes every month, especially the mobile version.

Recently I noticed that I'd be searching for a song (that I have on my phone) and it would default to their streaming service.... Why would I want to use my data to stream a song that I already have on my phone?

It is easier to browse this list than it is to browse a Netflix genre...

He's also involved in multiple lawsuits stemming from the fact that he has an "unfair advantage" from using his software.

If he makes it available to everyone he will still be making money if the courts don't rule in his favor... Plus fantasy sports are huge right now. I'd say with his track record he has the potential to make a very profitable startup.

He also had to pony up $24k to submit 888 lineups on the day he won $221k, so I'd say he's doing all right.

After going through the article I would have really liked to see what the average prices for these companies are, even though only 48 out of the 250 SaaS companies published pricing pages.

On average there were 3.5 pricing options per company, with the highest priced option leading towards a "Contact Us" 38% of the time. I feel like the companies that published prices were not targeting enterprise level companies (just a hunch), so seeing the range of their prices could be a very interesting guide for pricing SaaS outside of enterprise sales.

For enterprise SaaS an analysis of the Lead Gen forms for the other 202 companies would be very interesting.

I'm normally skeptical about these types of articles (every SEO website has one) but the intro is very interesting, and they hit on some fundamental issues with content marketing right off of the bat i.e. every company blogs because they "have" to, but very few get traction out of it.

The other issue they hit on was that half of the companies that pay for their service never actually published anything. To negate this they decided to "make content for companies based on their data and then just charge them based on the performance."

While they are still charging for the content, I really like the concept of paying for performance (and not in some shady black-hat SEO way that gets your website banned from Google). No content marketing firms that I have ever worked with have even had this as an option...

Put some examples of past orders up on your discover page!

I think Uber used their last round of funding to poach the entire Carnegie Melon robotics department for their self-driving cars, so it will be interesting to see they do with this $2.1 billion dollars.

The pdf of the book is linked to in the article, and after reading a little of it I'm struck by its similarity to "Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Penumbra%27s_24-Hour_Books...

I was also thinking that if competitors showed up in the results you could then use the botnet to then link bomb them?

I agree that it does seem like quite a bit of effort for an undetermined purpose though...

I wonder if the point of the botnet is to get SERPs from Google? They stopped letting you know quite a bit of information about keyowrds, rankings, etc. a while ago.

Seems like there is lots of potential for blackhat SEO with this type of botnet.

Wow. Reporting blackhat seo websites (of competitors) used to be one of the worst parts of my job. Having to defend myself against blackhat seo attacks on a daily basis would have sucked my soul...

Horror flashbacks reading your comment... But for real, do you think 10k or 20k links from legitimate blogs/social profiles would provide any SEO benefit? Or would the only benefit be the referral traffic?

Not to diminish your analysis though which was very entertaining to read!

This is 100% not effective anymore. This is just a slightly more malicious version of the the spam bots that post back links in wordpress comments, except in this case they were adding entire html pages to the sites. This is a violation of Google's duplicate content rules and if anything would be viewed negatively by Google.

The efficacy of this hack is nil as the "money domains" that were profiting from these backlinks had little domain authority or relevant traffic according to the author's article.

The only only way that linking strategies are viable anymore are gaining links from domains with authority or huge numbers of links.

Maybe if the hacker would have created tens of thousands of back links from vulnerable fashion blogs (same category of site as the money sites) they would've gotten some SEO juice.

One of the arguments I've commonly heard against a ban like this is that pharmaceutical companies need to market their products because of the cost developing new drugs. However, this has turned into a strategy of expanding the medical uses of already approved drugs and then marketing the "new uses".

Tylenol is the perfect example of this. Everyone "knows" that it reduces the risk of heart attacks, because of the marketing campaigns. But what most people don't know is how little of an impact Tylenol actually makes.

This is absolutely perfect for my needs. I've wanted a smartwatch solely to be able to track exercise and steps, but I have been unimpressed by the aesthetics of the current offerings (square design of the Apple watch, the tacky looking FitBit).

The notifications system (simple vibration & optional LED) seems discreet as well.

I thought it was more about the fact that the sharing economy can either create positive, meaningful interactions that connect neighbors and neighborhoods, or it can turn your neighbors into faceless drones that you only interact with via the touch of an app button.

I admit that the dystopian future the author sets out seems a little drastic, but it does remind me of Jobs' "below the API" argument.

The college list is interesting especially considering the emphasis many startups (Y-Combinator included) place on hiring hackers, self-taught engineers, etc.