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Blog postAt DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and in service of that vision, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted search engine.
We are proud to say that at the end of last year, we surpassed a cumulative count of 10 billion anonymous searches served, with over 4 billion in 2016! We are growing faster than ever with our first 14M day on Jan 10, 2017.
People are actively seeking out ways to reduce their digital footprint online. For exampl -
Blog postThis current simulation uses monthly price data, and so you are right that it will be slightly off the thresholds in terms of when you execute the sell and buy trades. That’s why I suggested the improvements at the bottom of the post including higher-frequency data (such as daily) and different peak/valley calculations (such as moving averages). I suspect if you did both you’d get slightly better results, but still on the same order of magnitude.
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Blog postBig Disclaimer: I’m not a finance professional, so please take this post with a healthy dose of skepticism.
The bottom of the Great Recession in 2009 caused the S&P 500 index to retreat to 1996 levels — over 20 years of wiped out gains. Other crashes have been much less dramatic, though the general pattern of apparent overcorrection is similar.
With this pattern in mind, I went looking for a simple alternative strategy to Buy and Hold that reduces downside risk to these -
Blog postUpdate: I’m co-authoring a book about the mental models from this post. Get notified when the book comes out here.
Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. More profoundly, though, it opened my mind to the power of seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines.
A mental model is just a concept you can use t -
Blog posthttp://tractionbook.com The second edition of Traction is now out, published by Penguin Random House (the first edition was self-published). I mention that because the change gave us the opportunity over the past nine months to make a much more high-quality book, reacting to the tens of thousands of first-edition readers, adding sections that we discovered were missing, addressing the more counter-intuitive aspects of getting traction.
In going through this process we pulled out takeaw -
Blog postBelow are some basic marketing test ideas across all nineteen traction channels. These tests are designed for businesses trying to get to product/market fit, either preparing for a successful launch or post-launch, but may be useful for any business.
As part of our Bullseye Framework for getting traction, these are called middle ring tests and should cost less than a thousand dollars and take less than one month of time (that is, fast & cheap!).
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Blog postFox Entertainment With nineteen traction channels to consider, figuring out which one to focus on is tough. That’s why we’ve created a simple framework called Bullseye that will help you find the channel that will get you traction. As billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel put it:
[You] probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t k -
Blog posthttp://priceonomics.com/can-authors-make-money-selling-books/37,617 Copies of Traction Book by the Numbers: Revenue, Expenses and Profits from our Self-publishing Journey 37,617 is exactly how many copies we’ve sold of Traction. That number is frozen because our self-published 1st edition is no longer for sale in preparation for our revised 2nd edition coming out Oct 6, published by Penguin Random House. How we managed to sell all these copies is another story (tldr: we used the techniques fr
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Blog postWhen you start building a product, it’s a leaky bucket. If you pour customers in the top, most will flow out the leaks. Since getting customers usually requires time and money, most founders wait until right before launch to focus on getting traction.
Counter-intuitively, this is a mistake. The secret to having a successful launch is to focus on getting traction right from the beginning, by continually pouring a small yet steady stream of cold customers into your bucket (product).< -
Blog postIn Traction (the book), we have a chapter on each of the 19 customer acquisition channels you can use to get traction, along with 5 key introductory chapters explaining how to find the 1 traction channel that will lead to explosive growth for your business.
Here we have enumerated all 19 traction channels and some of the people we interviewed for each, so that you can have an easy traction channel list to use when brainstorming marketing test ideas:
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