What’s better than learning from people who’ve already been successful in business and not people who haven’t? It’s always a little difficult taking financial advisors seriously because they pass along retirement investing advice and yet they’ve never been retired or tried living off their own investments. It’s all theoretical. However, with successful entrepreneurs who are willing to share their experiences with other people so they can better themselves, there’s a genuineness that one can put faith in. [Read more…]
3 Things You Need To Know When Launching Your Startup’s Blog
You’ve dedicated hours of work and stressed out over every detail, now it is finally time to launch your startup’s blog. No matter how much preparation has went into it, something will inevitable will go wrong. [Read more…]
FullyFollow Let’s People Follow You With A Single URL
Have you noticed the number of social network links in email footers these days? Follow me on LinkedIn, Follow me on Twitter, Follow me on Facebook, the list seems endless. Now thanks to an enterprising startup called FullyFollow users can share one link to rule them all.
Located at FullyFollow.me the program allows users to share their social networks in a single interface. Once entered users share their FullyFollow.Me URL and then they sit back and wait for super follow stardom.
Started in 2011 by?Eli Gratz,?Ryan Lelek, and?Dale Stephens the program was conceptualized during a 48-hour bus trip from Chicago to Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference.? [Read more…]
Google turns to algorithms to create better-looking ads
The constant push to make ads more visually appealing — reducing the effects of ‘ad blindness’ and helping them to convert better for advertisers and pay more to publishers — continues, as Google announces a pending deal with the Californian startup company Teracent.
Teracent specialises in machine-learning algorithms which have been put to use on the image ads of Google and its partners.
The example given in the announcement shows a standard, human created ad (left) and a similar ad that’s been picked in real time from thousands of different creative elements by these algorithms.
