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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. as you go. Conclusion.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. It’s Ok to grab the page title and a summary from a META element like “description&# (or up to 250 characters from an article’s first paragraph) to craft links, for example - but not more!