You’ve spent countless hours getting your products ready to ship. Now it’s time to start converting visitors into paying customers – after all that’s the lifeblood for every business. But what happens when you’re conversion rate is demoralising low. According to research by Statista the number one reason for shopping cart abandonment is customers being…
Sometimes the biggest hurdle keeping folks from starting a business is the first step. And it’s a big one for anyone. But it’s usually the fear of failure and the unknown holding people back. Fortunately, we live in an age where people freely share their experience with the rest of us online. Experiences that can…
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention in the past seven days. Want to Build and Launch Your First Product – Here’s What Not to Do: A sudden spark of creativity can ignite an…
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention in the past seven days. This week in startups 5 PR lessons from Viber’s rise from zero users to a $900M exit: Whenever I mention Viber to people,…
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention in the past seven days. This week in startups 25 Ways to Make Your First Online Sale: We all remember the first sale! It’s a cause for celebration,…
Messaging app WhatsApp was bought by Facebook today! And when you’re facing the prospect of a 5 year old company being acquired for $19 billion, can you really blame founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum? Probably not. The thing is that it’s just insane the amount of money being tabled for a messaging app. And can…
This is a guest post by Magda Alexandra Torres who is the Marketing Manager at JobFluent. Sorry to break it to you, I have no magic formula to help you land a job anywhere. Having a good education, a nice set of skills and an awesome CV can get you closer to a job position, but not even…
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention in the past seven days. This week in startups The Latvian startup scene: We all know how Berlin and London are both cities with a budding startup community…
Five days, 20 startups and 300 individual mentors. That’s Seedcamp Week in a nutshell – Seedcamp’s flagship event. The event takes place every quarter in two of Europe’s largest breeding grounds of startups – London and Berlin. Last week London was the host city, during a time when a strike disrupted public transportation for 48h.…
We all struggle for inspiration at times, and when there’s a blank canvas staring back at you – it can be frustrating coming up with a concept you’re happy with. Fortunately today you’ll find many free resources to jump start your creative engines. That will in most cases just saves you loads of time to…