Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? My distribution above is a good starting point. Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. All three challenges are important.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. There are certainly exceptions to this, but for the most part you should be charging your customers more than it costs you to deliver your product or service. Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

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. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. Facilitating work-flow reduces work for the participants, as well as increasing switching costs. High Fragmentation.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Adjudica.com sells its group-medical-cost monitoring tool as a Web-based service to large health plan operators. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

St. Louis 127

St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Startup 127

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Founding Date: 2004. Expedia accounted for 24.5%

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. 7- Decentralized and distributed ledger Photo Credit: Erwin Vico Being in the finance industry my favorite technological innovation is Blockchain.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Technology Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence 138

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Why do cable & satellite companies force us to take content “bundles&# that cost more than we want and have content we don’t watch. Were they vertically integrated ? If so, why?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The only exceptions that come to mind are if the IP seems likely to provoke costly litigation, costs too much to develop, or taints the startup with some kind of ties to other ventures or people that give it a checkered past.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. and each book costs $375 retail. Well, she doesn't.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. That means marketers can change and test anything, anywhere on their sites, for any segment of shoppers, instantly, without I.T.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Provide employees with the information and processes necessary to know their customers, understand their needs, and effectively build relationships between the company, its customer base, and distribution partners.

Management 116

Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I had just enough data to optimize the main funnel, found a bunch of wins, then hit a hard wall and needed to rebuild the entire distribution strategy from scratch to keep growing. Even if you recruit in lower-cost areas and look for more junior folks, you’re looking at $150K each, fully loaded. This is exactly what happened to me.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins!

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust. Let me try to explain the pricing in words so that you can understand why: It costs $11 per server plus $2 per website. I hate, hate, hate this pricing scheme.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The aggregate KA score would be computed as E × LE. Choose how to store and distribute knowledge. As Jack Phillips details , all measurement comes at a cost. The maximum AF score is 100. The higher the score, the greater the need for knowledge retention. The process to identify a solution is two-part: Strategy. Conclusion.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level.

Search 156

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Always adapt to what’s most important and sensible for you (and remember that nothing is free, every measurement decision you make has a cost!). What if you are a tiny local business in a narrow niche, should you use the same approach as Betabrand? Make tough choices.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The actual directory itself is straightforward.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

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

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. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. Perhaps you are saying their costs of distribution aren’t zero, as I allege. Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. Darren Herman.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It shows the normal distribution of XS, S, L etc, but it also shows, how cool is this, the Model's size (S in this case), her height, bust, waist and hip size! What is the cost of, and options for, an ADT security system? But there is no indication as to what the monthly cost will be, and there is no online quote option.

Web 165

Web Design Marketing Security 165

YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

HRS CEO Tobias Ragge was recently in Singapore for the official announcement, where he shared his plans to drive adoption of his company’s online hotel booking and travel management solutions, which allows users to make direct reservations free of charge, offering immediate confirmation and cost savings of up to 30% on hotel bookings.

Singapore 171

Singapore Asia Germany Aggregator 171

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). At the time, the cost of each of these valuations ran between $10,000 and $15,000 annually for each company.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” David makes a powerful assertion — allowing the patient to rise to the forefront and to be truly be seen as a customer — will lead to not only more satisfied patients, but patients with better medical results and much lower costs. Additionally, the large employer motivations are likely contributing to rising costs.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159