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. Transform financial and accounting software from databases to context-aware, proactive processors.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Build and maintain large email database. Having flexible, searchable databases accessible on mobile devices Move from partner- or people-oriented function to more institutionalized, systematic, and scalable. Intermediaries. Social media.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. In between the last failover and now, there have been a bazillion code pushes, database schema changes, internal DNS renames, etc. Server times, stuff in the database, etc. App-specific metrics.

Software Review 94

Software Review Database SQL Aggregator 94

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! A really expansive and accurate database and detection mechanism when it comes to mobile platforms. Clean into the three desired categories. Why is this cool?

Analytics 97

Analytics Viral Web Mobile 97

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

You can the right candidates from places like job aggregators a place where recruiters post jobs and professional networks like LinkedIn. It is said to be the Facebook for the job seeker and recruiters with more than 300 million profiles in its database. Help in finding the right candidate for the job. Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Management 100

Management Software Review Software Technical Review 100

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is essentially a digital medical records aggregator that takes care of everything; from collecting paper records, to translating through the jargon, to securely storing it all online. Customers no longer have to dig through filing cabinets or call up all the doctors they’ve seen over the years.

Aggregator 176

Aggregator Management New Jersey Security 176

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2017

This is where content aggregation can prove to be enormously beneficial. By making the switch from manual content creation to aggregation, you’ll be able to simplify the process, while also speeding it up significantly. First and foremost, you should familiarize yourself with the basic understanding of content aggregation.

Aggregator 113

Aggregator Database Algorithm Internet 113

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It’s a system that can help you build a database of customer information, stay better connected to customers, and streamline your overall processes. This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints.

Management 116

Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Both types of chatbots perform best for “Tier 1” questions, or those that are easily interpreted and whose answers can be extracted efficiently from a database (e.g. Chatbots can fetch basic information from company databases almost instantly. AI-based chatbots that answer more ambiguous queries.

Jamaica 112

Jamaica Database Conversion Cost 112

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. We maintain a database of these corporations’ priority needs — allowing us to identify early clients for companies we back. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

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

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

In computer science, a data engineering pipeline is a set of processes that extract data from various sources, transform it into the required format, and load it into a destination database. This may involve cleaning up inaccuracies, standardizing designs, or aggregating multiple data sets.

Engineer 200

Engineer Database API Aggregator 200

ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

Dan Zarrella of Hubspot has conducted some very interesting research using the Hubspot and MailChimp Databases, which talks about opens, click throughs, and a number other factors. When you compare the value per customer with Dan Zarrella’s aggregate Click Through Data, you see a very revealing story. Why is that?

Campaign 130

Campaign Email Framework Clickthrough 130

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2011

Elbaz identified several major hurdles that companies face around data: Findability Access Rights and Ownership Economics and Business Models Standards Integration and Aggregation Trust. And "starting from scratch" to build out a new database would take a lot of resources, something a startup isn't likely to have.

Aggregator 118

Aggregator Semantic Startup API 118

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Do that, and you’ve met the minimum requirements and the possibility of achieving awesomeness. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics?

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2020

One of the most useful sets of data is the government purchase order data aggregated in an online database by GovSpend. . If your company is an experienced government contractor and/or you’re looking for a competitive advantage when pursuing government contracts, you can obtain a free demo of the GovSpend purchase order database.

Revenue 211

Revenue Government Aggregator Database 211

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Enter a keyword to search the datasets database. It couldn’t be easier: Connect to kaggle.com. There’s an optional Google login.) Look for the datasets section near the top of the page. Scan the results, review the dataset quality scores, interestingness scores, and short descriptions. Select the dataset that resonates most with you.

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community Wild Apricot – Online tools for clubs, associations, and communities that include email newsletters, blogs, discussion forums, a member database and more. Sharedbase – An online tool to manage your members-only website and your membership database.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Despite sometimes small sample sizes , you can calculate confidence intervals, and with some of them, compare your metrics to a database of other companies and competitors. Does it feel seamless and fun?

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

All Heroku would have to do is come up with four tiers of service, attach reasonable dynos/workers/databases to them, and make that the core offering for 90% of new accounts. This is pretty much the way that normal distributions show up in nature — through aggregation. Michael Selik. August 13, 2012 at 10:18 am. #.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. The tool aggregates various publicly available datasets and helps you plot them on graphs (see example below). Continue Reading → CB Insights Clarity database Evolita LumaPartners LUMAscapes Mattermark OnePagers.io

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Through this work, they’ve created their innovation index, a database intended as a free public health resource for what medical products are in development across the world. We will work until we get it right.”

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? IMPORTANT: This type of behavior is rare so you should not see 0 visits often. My advice would be this: 1.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

The Next Web

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Contactually helps aggregate all of your networks and contacts into a central hub that tracks your relationships. It’s a living database that keeps us organized and effective when it comes to selling and tracking the progress of every lead through the sales funnel. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. . Salesforce.

Sales 136

Sales Product Aggregator Cofounder 136

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Responses are aggregated in one place, resumes are re-formaatted for consistency, candidates can be pre-screened and millions of potential employees can be searched in a huge database. Trademarkia has one of the world’s largest databases of trademarked logos, names, and slogans. Intelius: Who can you trust nowadays?

Small Business 92

Small Business Database Social Media Aggregator 92

BeyondVC

MARCH 2, 2006

Think about Zillow , Technorati , and services like Indeed which are dynamically driven services based on aggregating, crawling, and filtering millions of pieces of data. Greenplum is taking the best of the open source database PostgreSQL and rebuilding some of the core functions like the query optimization, execution, and interconnect.

Web 78

Web Open Source Architecture Database 78

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes).

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

BeyondVC

MARCH 2, 2006

Think about Zillow , Technorati , and services like Indeed which are dynamically driven services based on aggregating, crawling, and filtering millions of pieces of data. Greenplum is taking the best of the open source database PostgreSQL and rebuilding some of the core functions like the query optimization, execution, and interconnect.

Web 68

Web Open Source Architecture Database 68

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In terms of financial analysis, you can look up company credit scores at Duedil.com , which is the world’s biggest free database of company information.

Aggregator 80

Aggregator Database Metrics Internet 80

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Hanover city in Germany for example, lives solely on conferences!

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Israel Caching PHP 84

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Now when I do analysis of my performance (not just in aggregated but segmented by geo and campaign and source and…) I'll know if our results are good or bad or ugly. In aggregate almost all data is useless (like # of Visits). I'll look over my historical performance. Truly heart warming.

Analytics 140

Analytics Metrics Web Framework 140

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The big problem, of course, is that with billions of parameters in every AI database, it is very difficult to align original content creators and divide up revenue where there is enough revenue to go around. The only viable path would be that they are paid for database inputs, not outputs. This has been big tech’s greatest hack.

Mauritius 62

Mauritius Australia Database Aggregator 62

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

Visualize industry related data – most popular X on Twitter, aggregate industry related tweets. Crowdsourced database or app. YourBrandSuggests – Monitor Twitter to make industry related recommendations (great example of this in Youtility). Facebook lead capture. Facebook contest by market segment. Surprise upgrade program.

Marketing 78

Marketing Social Media Aggregator Database 78