Marketing for revenue generation
1) Customers tend to leave higher tips on sunnier days.
2) Even if customers are in a windowless room and can’t see for themselves whether it’s sunny or not - if the server simply tells them it’s sunny outside, they were more likely to leave bigger tips.
3) If a server writes a fake “weather…
According to Twitter, my account might have been hacked along with 250,000 others (I have already reset my password). Here’s a copy of the email I received. Why were only 250,000 of Twitter’s 100+ million accounts hacked? Apparently those affected by the hacking incident are the earliest Twitter users and something about those early accounts made them vulnerable. I joined in early 2007 and knew I was within the first million members to sign up. Now it seems like I was one of the first 250,000 members.
"We’ve come a long way. Today we understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And that what we are doing when we iterate or pivot is that we are firing the plan before we start firing executives."
~ Steve Blank
(via fred-wilson)
The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors
SEO may seem like alchemy to the uninitiated, but there is a science to it. Search engines reward pages with the right combination of ranking factors, or “signals.” SEO is about ensuring your content generates the right type of signals. The following chart summarizes the major factors to focus on for search engine ranking success.
View from the balcony this morning in Ogunquit, ME. Perfect #birthday view (Taken with Instagram)