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Re:A/B Testing Software Always Slows Down The Site on Friday August 09, 2013 @04:00PM (#6188060)
This is part one of three where I explain what details really matter in A/B testing. Hint... it's not the speed of loading the Javascript on your site.
Re:Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:22PM (#5526558)
Great accomplishment by Dan & Pete. It really validates the space for a disruptive A/B testing tool at great price-points.

Dennis CEO of A/B testing tool http://www.convert.com

Re:Blip.tv Deletes All Videos from Paid Accounts on Thursday January 17, 2013 @04:19PM (#5075288)
Update 3: It just took spamming every Blip.tv employee on LinkedIn and investor and advisor... ehhh and board members ehh and tipping Techcrunch to get this following email from the founder. Jared.

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Dennis,

Sorry for the inconvenience. The support team is supposed to issue a notification first.

Here's a zip file of the uploaded videos:

http://s1.video3.blip.tv/blabla sometime.zip

cheers,

- Jared

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Nice it took only 4 hours and I just wonder why the support said things were final when internal zip file seemed to be the solution. Now it will take 4 hours to download them all from that ZIP. Lets hope they are nice enough to keep the file up some time ...

Dennis

Re:Blip.tv Deletes All Videos from Paid Accounts on Thursday January 17, 2013 @03:59PM (#5075170)
Update 2: Blip just refunded last months money: Blip Networks, Inc. just sent you a refund (Paypal) how nice! I dont need the $8 I'd love my webinar video's
Re:Blip.tv Deletes All Videos from Paid Accounts on Thursday January 17, 2013 @03:41PM (#5075074)
Really also without warning up front. That tics me off most. No warning. Its not like its porn or anything. Just webinar videos
Re:Blip.tv Deletes All Videos from Paid Accounts on Thursday January 17, 2013 @03:36PM (#5075040)
Update: Blip.tv replied with the following. Like we all ready that TOS checkbox on a paid account...

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Hi Dennis,

These videos are all in strict violation of our TOS regarding spam, commercial use, posting webinars, etc. Our Pro account does not circumvent our TOS, as is very clear on sign up. Again, all of this is at http://blip.com/tos

These videos have been removed from our servers and our decision to remove your account is final. Good luck in finding a more appropriate hosting solution for your content.

Blip

Blip.tv Deletes All Videos from Paid Accounts

Wow incredible Blip.tv just deleted 18 webinar videos from my paid account. Because they are not series. Can you believe it?I was asking something in a ticket and they just deleted them after they saw the content (really just webinars (business videos).This is great, I am CEO of a Saas company (Convert.com) but closing an account deleting someones content without warning (or in this case...

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Re:Convert Experiments New Google Website Optimizer? on Thursday June 07, 2012 @02:32PM (#4080572)
Google Website Optimizer will be killed August 1st and migrated to Google Analytics... but they removed lots of features. Thats why we stepped in.

Google +1, Facebook Like and Places are the New Targeting Opt-In’s

The new marketing opportunities for website owners are the new social tools that everyone is using. Thanks to Google +1, Facebook Like, Check-ins from Google, Facebook, Gowalla and Foursquare can all be equally strong as an opt-in for a newsletter. So it seems leaving the market self regulation is taking a natural course and national interference is not needed.<p>Most people outside the...

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Ask HN: Accepting Credit-card Without SSN# on Startup

I am trying to figure out how our startup can accept credit cards. Both founders are not from US and company is incorporated in US. We do not have Social Security Numbers and that seems to be blocking all applications.I have not found any trustworthy merchant account provider that accepts us (being startup no track records and no SSN).Any suggestions?

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AppDirect or Google App Marketplace?

Looking at the end of the beta of or SaaS application, which soon will come soon, O have to think about payment options and marketing channels. We did not start of a lean and agile company like we read about everywhere, but this is rapidly changing now we found out who loves our product. This product market fit quest is not over at launch, it will only start all over again, but with a slightly...

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Ask HN: What Elements Has Your Perfect Pricing Page

Hi,I am working on our future pricing page and looked at 303 websites and came up with a list of best practices for our pricing page.I wanted to share my finding and hopefully you can add yours?- Call to action headline that matches the unique selling points mentioned on the homepage- Subheadline will give details on trial, no credit card needed, amount of users in system (if the over 10,000),...

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I know CrazyEgg has a nice overlay but its more color and heatmap oriented. I think thats a small feature to add in In-Page Analytics... Color coding the page would give more insights.

Funnels for Web Startup Pirates

Dave McClure from Founders Fund gave a presentation September 2009 on Startup Metrics for Pirates during the the London Seedcamp.He defined important point like the AARRR! model (Acquisition: users come to site from various channels, Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: "happy” experience, Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times, Referral: users like product enough to refer others,...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your logins? on Thursday September 23, 2010 @05:33PM (#1721560)
Roboform Online (http://www.roboform.com)

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