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The thing about free plan is that most of the users are freebie seekers and have no intention of getting an upgrade. And talking about B2B, if companies can't afford $19/m, then they shouldn't be in business.

I remember similar article was posted on reddit a few weeks ago along with those images. There was byline which suggested that images were take from some p0rn movie.

Exactly, its damage control. If they wanted to reveal more information about requests for user data, they could leak it anonymously.

A few months ago we were got legal threats by patent troll. It sucks that intellectual property is being abused to the point where startups need more lawyers than engineers.

Another thing that I also see are ads that are disguised as part of content or navigation.

Well its not that bad, as I first thought. Here is what I know from playing with new tool for some time:

1. How can I see the exact match search volume? - The search number you see is actually exact match.

2. But why are the exact match search volumes higher/lower than those in the old keyword tool? - Because KW Tool was showing the search volumes in the current month. KW Planner calculates the average per year, so that's why the numbers are different.

3. Well, but it doesn't show the local search volume! - It does show ONLY local search volume of the country you selected in targeting. If you want to see global search statistics, then change targeting to all countries.

4. But but... it doesn't show search trends! - Yeah it does, just hover your mouse over that small graph icon right of the keyword. These new search trends are actually far more better, cause you can see exact names of the months.

I agree with article, but we run A/B tests for our landing page year ago and those "As seen on" logos increased our conversion rates.

Fun fact: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was one of the first venture capital firms founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the "father of venture capitalism" (former dean of Harvard Business School), Karl Compton (former president of MIT) and Ralph Flanders. ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of $70,000 in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) got valued at over $355 million after the company's IPO in 1968 (representing a return of over 1200 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101%).

>Put another way, some startups have a process, other startups just implement the tactics (best practices) that are the results of someone else’s process.

Yes, but you still need to test other people's best practices. What works for some, might not work for you. I remember when Etsy introduced infinite scroll because everyone were doing it; they soon found out that it affected their conversions negatively and returned to old style.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, what matters is an execution.