Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Innovations in media transaction platforms along with a better understanding of target audience have brought an amazing level of scale and efficiency in display advertising market.

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

> Know your audience. Your plan should be written in a language that your audience will understand. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jonathan Gandolf, the founder and CEO of The Juice, a B2B content platform aimed at solving marketers’ biggest pain points in distribution, reach, and audience engagement.

Marketing 91

Marketing B2B Distribution Audience 91

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

" For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. " "Hit it."

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Jakub Linowski, GoodUI.org.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Far more important is whether that audience has a need that you solve.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Both of these things combine to attract new audiences for our business. How do we find a better balance between producing content that we like producing and content that our audiences actually crave? Extra work for you to download the data and aggregate it, but it is very valuable data so put in the extra effort. You can't.

Search 137

Search Analytics PPC Green 137

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

If the tools continue to display data, it will be increasingly distorted because it will reflect only traffic from the small audience of visitors who are not yet using secure search or are using other non-secure search engines. Aggregated search engine level analysis.

Search 156

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

At this point, there’s someone in the audience saying “That’s illegal!” You can assume normality for the probability distribution of the average revenue per customer. This is pretty much the way that normal distributions show up in nature — through aggregation. Michael Selik.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Although there’s some overlap with freelance platforms, where creators look for paid ‘gigs’, I’d argue that while creators are looking to monetize their craft, they care about “artistic freedom” To do that, they need to build and engage an audience, create unique, quality content and monetize it in different ways.

Curation 210

Curation Social Media Aggregator Vertical 210

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). Also see the much better, sweeter, distribution for Visitors who visit from 9-14 times through 26-50 times. I want us to be a lot more deliberate. and so on and so forth.

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Social Media Search 119

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% When your target audience is elderly, make your website as easy to use and clutter-free as possible.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. You create and aggregate videos. It’s both / and.

Aggregator 150

Aggregator Silicon Valley Distribution Video 150

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In the A16Z blog , Li Jin, one of the most prominent writers on the creator economy, said that creators can make a living with only 100 true fans, by segmenting their audience and offering tailored products and services at varying price points. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less. ” Eric Feng.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I never really expected a big audience or ever thought about it. Absofuckinglutely.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? Unique Page Views helps us quantify content content consumption. Raise your hands if you love mobile games!

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TripAdvisor and Yelp don’t get as much hype as Twitter or Facebook, but they too have built very large audience/media businesses. Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization].

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It brings in traffic, educates your audience, and gives them something they want to subscribe to. We also know that content performs for your business when you pair it with marketing automation software; you can use content to build up email subscriptions, understand your audience’s interests, and nurture the leads in your sales funnel.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Text The Mob – Collect feedback during presentations and seminars by posting polls or message boards on a large screen and having your audience send their input via their cell phones. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

Snapchat has an enormous audience of mobile-first consumers tuning in every day looking for content to consume in a way that YouTube doesn’t. If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. there is a follower model so it’s easier to build an audience. The audience is there. Snapchat is similar.

Video 150

Video St. Louis Audience Washington 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). You should be able to convert at least 5-15% of your audience. You can spend money building audiences on YouTube.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Develop a Smarter Understanding of Your Audiences. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. This report is the only place you can see distribution of days to purchase for Assisted Conversions. Develop a Smarter Understanding of Your Audiences. Gain Attribution Modeling Savvy.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Stick to providing relevant, timely and interesting information that will be useful to your audience. – David Ehrenberg , Early Growth Financial Services. Traditional distribution services no longer work. They’re not bringing useful information to a new audience. Limited, Egotistical Content. One Big Launch.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kyle Dunn, CEO, Meyler Capital , says, “Investors should focus on building a large audience within a CRM system (having the ability to categorize your different constituents); communicate consistently to that audience; and implement an automation platform that can leverage lead score to profile interest. 2) Market . 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Even though out product is targeted to a niche audience(female in our case) and have many unique features for niche audience. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand? Do you know how many units they are selling?

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Figure out their problems and fix them. Image Source.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Israel Social Network Flash 145

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Please note that this number will vary dramatically depending on the type of website you have, audience attributes, geographic location and a number of other factors. All numbers in aggregate are at best marginally useful, and that rule applies to this one too. All of the above is still kind of at an aggregate level.

Analytics 137

Analytics Metrics Search Aggregator 137

Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2013

Under Matt, Toni and Raanan’s leadership they’ve been consistent and committed to their values – open source, distributed workforce. Tumblr – Obviously great mobile product, simple toolset and upside of re-distribution ease via dashboard. And Business Insider “aggregates” me every once in a while.

Term Sheet 87

Term Sheet Distribution Aggregator Software 87

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“However, given the overwhelming number of conversations coming in from all directions all at once, it’s often impossible to focus a lens on the ones that are most relevant for a given time, place, audience and outcome. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place.

Curation 118

Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

I wonder what the distribution looks like? Task Completion Rate shows you how 100% of your audience did, were they all successful regardless of why they came to the site. at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Is that what we are solving for? Are there some outliers?

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. In PR placements, ‘place’ matters. Leverage your friends.

Small Business 88

Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88