Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Marta Wadsworth who is part of the Marketing Team at Userlike The checkout is the most crucial moment for any online business, it is the focal point of all the marketing and business efforts. Nonetheless, there are still many websites that neglect their checkout page optimisation. There are many…
Hackathons are one of my passions. They remind me of my student days when I was pulling all nighters with my friends to finish up coding a project on time. Except you don’t struggle for a grade, you’re hacking for pleasure. And if you get a prize it’s icing on the cake. Don’t be mistaken.…
While it’s often multi-million dollar exits that grab all the headlines – it’s very easy to overlook some of the great work small medium enterprises (SMEs) are doing. In fact, the European Commission states 99% of all businesses in the EU are SMEs. What’s more, two out of three of the private sector jobs come…
When it comes to life in a startup, it’s very easy to get caught up in things and work long hours – after all you need to be growing each month. But as you know, finding the time to relax and stay healthy is challenging at times. When you think about it, most of your…
This guest post is written by John McCarthy, CEO of Taxamo, a service solution for the 2015 EU VAT changes, outlines the EU VAT compliance challenges that await online merchants on January 1, 2015. An estimated 250,000 EU e-service merchants will be affected by the EU’s new 2015 rules on how VAT should be applied…
If you’re like most people, you probably want to do everything in your power to increase sales. Whether it’s through search engine optimization (SEO) or old fashioned banner ads – the goal is the same: To convert as many visitors as possible into loyal paying customers. Naturally you’ll need people visiting your website before you…
Open source software has never been so popular. With GitHub becoming the “Facebook for Developers” we see a growing amount of new projects every week. Some are initiated by big companies and others by individual passionate developers. But what happens when they get massive adoption? And how does support fit into it all? Here are three developers who shared their views on…
Apple had some interesting news for us at the WWDC 2014. But besides the new flat user interface (UI) OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 – the most surprising announcement was the new language Swift. This might be a shock for seasoned iOS and OS X programmers as they learned to love Objective-C but Apple announced…
Editor’s note: Every once in a while we like to feature startups on the blog whose services might be useful for you. In this post we got in touch with Kickshops and their Co-founder Vedran Rudelj to find out more about their mobile commerce platform. Where ever you go, you’ll spot somebody glaring down at…
Gut feelings are one thing, but it’s cold hard numbers that quantify your progress and show whether you’re on the right path. To find out how your software as a service (SaaS) business is performing, you will need to start collecting and measuring some key metrics very early on – ideally at the very beginning.…