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9 cringeworthy landing pages of multi-billion dollar tech giants
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9 cringeworthy landing pages of multi-billion dollar tech giants

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Here are a few homepages of today’s tech giants from their early days. The homepages serve as a poignant reminder of the fact that it’s better to launch as quickly as possible when you are in a good market, rather than honing the perfect look and design. If you cut across the technology industry, the whole idea…

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38 different ways to prove your case

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While ideally you have some sort of proof direct in your headline and ad, your persuasiveness argument relies on how well you prove your point. You see, it’s ultimately about belief and feeling. As heavy hitter Gary Bencivenga says: Almost everyone in the world, in every field of human endeavor, is desperately searching for someone…

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How Early Can You Launch?

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The main thing about launches that I’ve realized is that people put way too much emphasis on them. They end up focussing too much on a one-off event, rather than on building a successful business. Sometimes, they end up paying a price for suboptimal trade-offs they make. The goal of a traditional launch is to…