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A Few 80/20 Tips for Writing

Syften Blog

If your time is worth, say $75/hour, standing in line at the bank is painful. Sitting in traffic is another money waster – every non-productive, non-leisure minute you spend is another $1.25 down the drain.

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup

Walling, Rob

Mint used a second innovative strategy to acquire customers through this traction channel: direct sponsoring of blogs. Each sponsored blog would place a small Mint advertisement on its site for a period of time. Noah tracked each advertisement to see which blogs were most effective and how many people signed up. Not only did this approach contribute more than ten thousand preregistrations for its product, but it also allowed the Mint team to understand the kind of customer most interested in its product.

Traction

Gabriel Weinberg

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