Best blog posts of 2013
Happy New Year everybody! With Christmas behind us and 2014 just 3 days in, it’s time to reflect back on the previous year. Every year, we’ll be featuring the most popular posts from the blog in our “Best of” series.
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How to tell if your mentor is giving bad advice: This week in startups
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web from the past week. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention this past week. This week in startups Five Signs that Your Mentor Is Giving You Bad Advice: Having a mentor on your hands can…
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Fraud protection: Why SMEs are left out in the cold?
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared in The Paypers premium newsletter (Vol. 6 Issue 12, 2 Dec 2013) With a constantly growing e-commerce and m-commerce market across Europe and a range of possibilities to easily set up online businesses, many small business owners are confronted with a couple of challenges. One of the major problems…
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How to find customers to interview and validate your startup idea: This week in startups
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web from the past week. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention this past week. This week in startups 3 Ways to Validate Your App Idea and Launch Quickly: Everyone has an idea, and since mobile…
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Need someone to fix your burst pipes? Just ask Geoffrey
For anyone running a business or working late, there just isn’t enough time to do all those simple tasks that should take five minutes to complete. Geoffrey is a startup based out of Berlin which lets you outsource tasks like tracking your lost package, scheduling appointments and researching places for a weekend getaway to a…
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Would you turn down $5 million in VC funding? This week in startups
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web from the past week. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention this week. This week in startups Why I Turned Down $5 Million in VC Funding: Yes you read that correctly. And you’re probably thinking…
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Print your Instagram photos with Superprints from Sweden
At a baby age of 3 years, Instagram was the first startup to become a $1 billion iOS app. Some might have questioned it’s valuation at the time, just like folks are doing now when Facebook attempted to buy another photo sharing app in Snapchat for a whopping $3 billion. But what folks forget is…
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Getting users without a product: This week in startups
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web from last week. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention this week. This week in startups How I got my first customers without having a product: The truth of the matter is that your startup…
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How to increase holiday sales in 1 hour or less [infographic]
You know holiday season is upon when you start noticing Christmas Markets being set up all over town. Yes it’s November, and some folks are still growing their moustache for charity. But the winter holidays are just a month away, which means everybody will be flocking to buy gifts for their loved ones. Some will…
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Do you really need coding skills to launch a startup?
Welcome to The Mill, our weekly roundup of the hottest startup stories and resources to hit the web from last week. Curated by the PAYMILL team, here’s what grabbed our attention this week. This week in startups How To Launch A Startup Without Writing Code: Tal Raviv – co-founder of Ecquire – highlights that some successful startups…
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9 Things That Make Online Shops Successful
It’s now easier than ever to set up an online shop! With services like Tictail and Shopify almost anybody can start selling online. Nevertheless, the challenge here isn’t so much in how to get your online shop up and running – instead it’s about attracting visitors and converting them to paying customers. For some folks…
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7 talks to look forward to at Slush 2013
The first thing people say when I tell them I’ve been living in Finland for over 10 years is how cold it must be up there. And then come the polar bear comments. Yes, while it’s cold, we don’t have polar bears roaming the streets of Helsinki. Instead, we have promising startups to lookout for,…
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Is Twitter’s IPO good news for startups? Weekly roundup of startup stories
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 this week. This week in startups 13 Scary Reasons Your Content Marketing Will Fail: Content marketing can go a long way to increasing awareness for your business.…
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How to Build an A/B Testing Practice in 2 Hours
This guest post is written by Vincent Barr who leads online lead generation at MongoDB. He records his thoughts and essays at VincentBarr.com, Twitter and Google+ If running a website without analytics is like driving blind, then running a website without a/b testing is like cooking blind – you’re not going to drive off any cliffs, but…
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Who should be giving startup advice? Weekly roundup of startup news
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 this week. This Week in Startups Should You Really Be Giving Startup Advice? Let’s be honest here. You’ve probably come across people who call themselves a expert in…
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