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. By employing algorithms and machine learning, we can now predict market trends, assess property values, and personalize investment strategies with a precision that was previously unattainable.

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2022

Was it Covid-19, the bear market, the plunging prices of cryptocurrencies or changing consumer spending habits that pushed businesses across the globe to redefine the way they manage their workforce and vendor base? How is it possible to automate the end-to-end process to cut on costs and eliminate the likelihood of human errors?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. What is affiliate marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This kind of uncertainty and market shifts create the kinds of opportunities that we love to see, and has driven our seed investments in current market leaders like ThredUp and Dia&Co with many more opportunities ahead. But few companies have figured out how to create and capture value, and defend that value in this new order.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There is no shortage of accounting and financial technology (fintech) apps on the market. So, rather than handling these things separately, it is often more valuable to leverage a tool that can aggregate and automatically generate financial reports. Here are a few tips to help you better manage your business finances.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. aggregates resources from all the VCs. AskAnything.VC Organize events in your vertical.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. The lower costs & lower barriers to entry support this. The Coming Brick Wall.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

Then, consider the added costs of adding e-commerce, from the cost of setting up your online sales site to the marketing and shipping expenses that you might incur. Test your marketing channel options to see which will be the most effective driver of your new online sales. You don’t need to go all-in on e-commerce.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. Similarly, there will be more opportunities for companies to enter the freelancing platform creation market. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When Google Analytics makes the most sense : If your business relies on its website solely for marketing purposes—to attract visitors and generate leads—Google Analytics provides most of your actionable data. Other digital marketing experts I asked seconded his opinion. We don’t know the impact of each marketing channel.”.

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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. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. I speak from experience, as holder of a fancy MBA degree and once-upon-a-time Vice President of a market research firm charging thousands of dollars for sales forecasts. And you can use the same logic for direct costs too.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

And, by extension, the key to maintaining and growing its search market share, thus capturing more eyeballs for ads.). Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. The lesson?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Business data includes inventory, customer details, customer orders, employee information and marketing campaigns. A business is an aggregate of multiple repetitive tasks and processes. When a company goes through the process of buying a new system, there’ll be a time or monetary cost for the search, selection and installation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. In the early phases if you can’t acquire customers cost effectively enough you’ll need to diagnose why and how to fix it. Make sure that you count the “true” cost to acquire customers. SEO is seldom “free.”. lowering $1.50

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

Software for Recruitment Marketing. You can the right candidates from places like job aggregators a place where recruiters post jobs and professional networks like LinkedIn. Help to eliminate costs of travel which is unnecessary. The tools help in getting more job applicant since you will be able to reach many people.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. They ditched the residential market as they realized that a more accessible and profitable customer segment(s) were cities, lighting companies and utilities. Next was D.C.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? million acres of land.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

The lesson of the pandemic era is clear, as market conditions change, business models must evolve. Success is not, as you would think, about having stable business models across market conditions. In this article, we will give 5 tips for a post-pandemic model so that your business can adapt to changing market conditions. .

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2014

Social sharing is also second nature for them, which gives interesting content a good chance to be cost-effectively circulated widely. Millennials information consumption and sharing behaviors have presented marketers with a unique opportunity to capture the attention of this group. Performance  plain and simple.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Throwing $300k at something that “feels right” could have huge opportunity costs. Models are useful to marketers (and throughout a business) because they improve decision-making. If you’d like to purchase the site, opportunity cost of investment may be the way to go. If net profit is a criterion, do you have equipment costs?

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. What drove the expansion of the ETF market and who are the players that are taking advantage of it? However, this is about to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

And they also are great for sports events (I watch the Eagles pregame videos from fans aggregated in one place, for example). Geography matters because tons of marketing is driven by local businesses or by national brands who want regional campaigns. It also makes purchasing more cost effective. Authenticity / Endemic.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

Corporate accelerators are one of the best ways for startups to access capital, advice, and markets. EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Welcome to Nudging. Direct competitor comparisons.

Conversion 125

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 125

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. The new approach makes so much more sense.

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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.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). At the time, the cost of each of these valuations ran between $10,000 and $15,000 annually for each company.

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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. Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. One of their major initiatives is to launch marketing programs that engage customers in a fresh, new way.

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View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

When Uber started off as a more expensive “black car” service, people questioned whether it would eventually become a more mass market phenomenon or not. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jonathan Brill. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jonathan Brill. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Check it out here. Like this show?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. To get $1 in the bank, creators have to generate $2 (taking into account platform costs, creation costs, promotion, taxes, etc). ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Source: Graphtreon.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.) Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine. is their business worth pursuing (market size).

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Re: cash, the more “unbundled” types of accelerators (less formalized, less equity) tend to not provide any cash upfront, but also typically “cost” less in equity, often just 1–2% of your fully diluted capitalization. Others find it a necessary cost to getting access to the accelerator’s network, which is what they’re really there for.

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