{"id":2821,"date":"2014-10-11T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2014-10-14T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:04:31","slug":"kelsey-whelan-andrew-lee-and-me-agree-your-yc-landing-page-does-not-need-clip-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/kelsey-whelan-andrew-lee-and-me-agree-your-yc-landing-page-does-not-need-clip-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Whelan, Andrew Lee and Me Agree: “Your YC Landing Page Does Not Need Clip Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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When you show up in Mountain View for YC interviews, you better have a landing page.<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/td>\nAndrew Lee (@AndrewCLee8<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/11\/14, 4:01 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
“anytime you insert\u00a0#clipart<\/a>\u00a0into your website, you probably don’t need it.”- .@ycombinator<\/a>\u00a0#startupschool<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nKelsey Whelan (@kelseymwhelan<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10\/11\/14, 3:59 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
‘Any time you’re tempted to use clip art on your landing page, it probably doesn’t need to be there.’ #startupschool<\/a> \u263a\ufe0f<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For landing pages, people want to see transparency. I like<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– 28sec – 38 SEC video embedded<\/div>\n
– cell number call-to-action<\/div>\n
– email address that is first name @startup<\/div>\n
Not admin@duck9.com<\/a> or support@duck9.com<\/a><\/div>\n
– do a li’l lead gen is ok<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang\u00a0 When you show up in Mountain View for YC interviews, you better have a landing page. Andrew Lee (@AndrewCLee8) 10\/11\/14, 4:01 PM “anytime you insert\u00a0#clipart\u00a0into your website, you probably don’t need it.”- .@ycombinator\u00a0#startupschool Kelsey Whelan (@kelseymwhelan) 10\/11\/14, 3:59 PM ‘Any time you’re tempted to use clip art on your landing page, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internships"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}