YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. million CPUs.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Testing whether major brand alterations (such as a name change) impact the number of localized website visitors. In 2013 Kohl’s was looking for ways to significantly cut operating costs. In order to discover those changes at the aggregate level we need to have a sample size that is representative of our visitor population.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

If you asked 100 people to name a place where you frequently wait, even when you are on time for your appointment, how many would say the doctor’s office? In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

The Service Provider is simply the name of the Internet service providers (ISPs) used by visitors to your site. The good folks at LunaMetrics have a post where they suggest excluding the following regex in order to have the “real named” corporate ISPs float to the top.

Analytics 131

Analytics Conversion Metrics Europe 131

View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

Instead, it’s why it usually exists and why it gets lumped together with all those other basic navigation links — namely, because many startups launch blogs simply because they’re “supposed to.” Similarly, the value of a blog is how much work each post does for you in aggregate. The head is a bonus.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Audience Leadership 120

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important part seems to be to get the names of the company, gigantic, over two lines and distracting. Finally, this is picky, but why is most of the x-axis yearly and then suddenly just until Q2, 2013? If I had the raw data, I would also fix the x-axis and representation of the partial 2013 data. Scroll back up.

Analytics 145

Analytics Search Metrics Web 145

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. LeadPages , which provides SaaS for building conversion optimized and mobile responsive landing pages, decided in late 2013 that it was time. Name your podcast. Create your artwork.

Software 100

Software eCommerce Audio Hosting 100

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. There are a now a handful of funds, K9 included, that are Pre-Seed funds in name and practice.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In March 2013, the radio show Marketplace teamed up with The Chronicle of Higher Education and asked around 700 employers to grade the nation’s colleges and universities on how well they were employing their graduates for the workplace. Another key step will involve aggregating this data.

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A name like 500 Startups says it all. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. They don’t have to worry.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. aggregation.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Israel Startup 53

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! But by naming the price, your mind does not go instantly on guard, like it did with all the other folks. So why is it that YouTube's home page is still such a cluttered mess? Nine dollars!

Web 165

Web Design Marketing Security 165

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. Skype became part of Microsoft so I was at Microsoft for two years and then in September of 2013 I left Microsoft and GroupMe to start Fundera which is an online marketplace for small business loans. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

According to research compiled by WebHostingBuzz , r equiring users to enter email addresses, names and other data – and remember yet another set of usernames and passwords – puts them off and you might actually be driving them to other sites that don’t insist on traditional registration alone.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Since 2013, Bitwise has supported people learning new skills in what they call underdog cities like Fresno, Bakersfield and Merced. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2025

At one end of the barbell would be essentially asset managers (asset aggregators) and at the other, smaller firms that were more in the mold of what we historically thought of as venture. I wrote a follow-up piece in 2013 , parsing some then-current statistics from the NCVA that backed up what I had predicted in 2010.

Aggregator 56

Aggregator LP Cap Table Venture Capital 56

Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

As Bill Gates noted in the Foundation’s 2013 Annual Letter , the digital revolution has played a key role in increasing the organization’s ability to measure which approaches are working and which aren’t. Thanks to cell phones, satellites, and cheap sensors,” he wrote, “we can gather and organize data with increasing speed and accuracy.

Senegal 28

Senegal Malawi Silicon Valley Global 28