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by jjohansson 3y ago
Amazing tech, congratulations!
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by jjohansson 6y ago
Noted.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
I completely agree -- but what I'd like to understand is what those risks are from the vaccine. In Canada, the risk from COVID is high, but not as high as that in the US.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
EDITED to remove most of the post. Does anyone have information on possible side effects?
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by jjohansson 6y ago
Great comment -- thank you! Positioning, messaging, and onboarding are all really important to startups and need attention. But they shouldn't be the focal point right away. In my experience, positioning/messaging are more of an i
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by jjohansson 6y ago
I was the first Head of Marketing for a high growth tech company (we raised USD $71 million last year). I've been here almost 3 years, growing leads by 11x and revenue by millions with a tiny team and budget. My advice to those hiring
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by jjohansson 6y ago
> IMO the challenge with marketing is the very high budget and lack of (visible) returns . Modern digital marketing is focused on measurability and ROI. Even traditional marketing can be measured, it's just a bit harder. When you hi
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by jjohansson 6y ago
External links from Quora have the rel=nofollow attribute, so they don't help with SEO. Most SEOs would understand this.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
If you're looking for startup ideas, the best way is to talk to people in your target industry. Setup as many interviews as you can and ask them about what they do and the "pains" they experience doing those jobs.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
Undoubtedly true. Doesn’t change the fact that true SEO is about helping the searcher resolve their query. Google is evil, but they have the best search algorithm in town.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
I’m an SEO person, and true SEO is about providing value and helping the searcher. Not about gaming it. Google does a great job at removing the black hats, and a pretty good job at removing the grey hats, but it’s not perfect.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
To create value and to help others be successful
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by jjohansson 6y ago
Most analytics platforms will report on any straight direct line between spend and incremental revenue. The hard part is measuring the indirect part, as you mentioned, but it is possible.
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by jjohansson 6y ago
> When a recession happen the first to go is marketing. As a marketer, I have found the opposite to be true for some industries. For example, during 2007/2008 my digital marketing agency saw a big surge in business from companies wh
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by jjohansson 6y ago
This is a really cool tool! Wow.
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by jjohansson 7y ago
How do you identify bots on your personal sites?
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by jjohansson 7y ago
True, but Canada has roughly the same population as California. So objective total may not be the best metric. Clio raised $330 million last year.
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by jjohansson 7y ago
In 2019, PDFTron, a Vancouver-based tech company, received a USD $71 million investment from Silversmith Capital Partners (a Tier 1 growth equity firm). Vancouver’s tech scene is exploding, with a number of top tier tech companies being bas
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by jjohansson 7y ago
Build your personal brand through blogging (on a domain name you own).
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by jjohansson 7y ago
That would be 3d chess move by Google.
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by jjohansson 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work for PDFTron This is a very interesting field, and PDFTron has been doing similar work with ML and table extraction as part of our document understanding platform. We've made pretty good progress over the past year -
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by jjohansson 7y ago
PDFTron provides an SDK and isn't really meant as a plug-and-play end-user application. But it can accomplish what you're looking for. Here's how to extract text from a PDF based on coordinates (this explains how to do it on
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by jjohansson 7y ago
Commercial or open source? PDFTron can do it, but they’re not an open source project.
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Using a middle initial makes you look smarter and more accomplished(ulir.ul.ie)
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People with easy to pronounce names are judged more positively(semanticscholar.org)
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by jjohansson 7y ago
“ Maybe in some niche B2B fields I don't know your people just randomly die in your house while you are there.” Amazing! Hahaha
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Females with masculine sounding names are more successful in legal careers [pdf](sbmblog.typepad.com)
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Our conscious self is alerted to a decision that the brain is already planning(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jjohansson 7y ago
PDFTron SDK | Developers, Solutions Engineer, Product Designer, Recruiter | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Full-time, Onsite We recently received a USD $71 million growth investment, led by tier-1 growth equity firm Silversmith Capital. PDFTron SD
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by jjohansson 7y ago
Here's a video demo (1-minute): https://www.pdftron.com/blog/webviewer/introducing-webviewer... Here's the documentation: https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/web/guides/v

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