Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

in 2013 to 1.43 There are 3 steps marketers can follow to start connecting specific users’ mobile and desktop behavior: Aggregate audience data. Aggregate Audience Data. Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) : A unique ID for each iOS device that mobile ad networks typically use to serve targeted ads. in 2013 to 1.43

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. million CPUs.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. post-script.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 16, 2013

So here’s your new 4-word mktg strategy for 2013: Guess Less, Ask More… and always start with “How can I serve you?”. Consumers who feel valued by a brand will in turn assign value to the brand by buying the product/service and passing recommendations on to their networks. TR: ROI is simple dollars and cents, ROR is about people.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 15, 2016

As you’d imagine, these conversations continuously inform our thesis on healthcare… yet, since investing in Figure 1 in August 2013, we haven’t pulled the trigger on a second investment in this space. Aren’t there network effects in healthcare that we get excited about? What new value can be created? BloomAPI, HumanAPI, Validic).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

2: Network reports and motion charts. The first report is the Network Report – specifically, we’re looking at the Service Provider dimension. The first report is the Network Report – specifically, we’re looking at the Service Provider dimension. Come see Brian speak at Elite Camp, June 13-15. #2:

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

As of Q2 2013, when I left to join NextView, they were generating around 2 million monthly views and had over 300,000 subscribers. Similarly, the value of a blog is how much work each post does for you in aggregate. In December 2013, when I was at HubSpot, I stumbled on some data that forever changed how I view business blogging.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“The growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education.” –the Global Impact Investing Network.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

The Gorilla of the revenue sources continues to be Ad revenues from Google Websites growing at 20.48% from year 2013. The slowest growth rate (6.51%) is the revenue from Network sites. Online users at the end of 2014 stand at 2,925.249,355 and has grown 7.85% from 2013. Social Networks. Internal Knowledge Networks.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. I’ve also been able to connect with hundreds of influencers from all over the world, building a professional network that’s proven to be incredibly valuable to the development of my business.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

And then we need to take that record and make it part of a fully networked certification platform. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Because MailChimp sends email for thousands of different businesses, it can easily aggregate the send/open data and make useful recommendations. For example, social networking of payment service APIs are some of the most popular today. Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013! Easier Integration. Working Remote.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

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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. Social networking. Create your own social network.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. When we started talking to Sam Teller we knew we had the perfect person. So we went for it.

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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. She is sitting now at Georgetown's Beeck Center, running a digital service's collaborative there and knew that she would have the right network and the right orientation for this.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

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. You can kind of think of it like a kayak for small business. Are you going for private equity? Are you going for angel investment?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

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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. I had no network on the West coast.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

A benchmark for you: In 2013 if 30% of your time, Ms./Mr. Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. Did you know 50% of of TV viewership is on networks that each have <1% share? That was our lot in life.

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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.

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