Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. However, over the past few years, we’ve seen new marketplaces succeed by differentiating through a new shopping experience (i.e. mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply. We purposely kept the tone factual rather than prescriptive.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. Most search portfolios (Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization) have a unhealthy obsessions with our brand terms. Now to evolving from being Reporting Squirrels to being Analysis Ninjas! Why Segmentation? Branding baby!

Analytics 105

Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Traffic Differentials. Using Share of Search or Traffic Differentials are just two of many ways in which you can measure if your branding campaigns are indeed crushing your competition. Web Analytics. Sounds dicey!! :)).

Campaign 130

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 130

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

This study analyzed user reactions to 78 watch websites and 81 car websites, and it looked purely at design elements as differentiators. While data may, in aggregate, tell you that popups work well , if you run a luxury brand, nothing says cheap like 13 popups in your face before you can even read the value proposition. Dominant color.

Stock 48

Stock Mobile Design Singapore 48

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

They have still not embraced the strategy for optimizing for marketing portfolios and still obsess about optimizing silos (they learned this from their TV, Print etc. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. You can also of course use this strategy to differentiate between new and old subscriptions. strategies).

Analytics 132

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

My-i Toolbar enables operators to offer a differentiated and branded user experience across mobile Internet devices, to increase awareness of new mobile data services by promoting operator and third party content, and to generate revenues from targeted advertising. . Mce Systems. MailVision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

So LPs are looking for a combination of “established top tier” and “new managers with differentiation.” Late stage / growth VC sucks up the most amount of capital in aggregate in our industry and there was a movement by some of the larger VCs to say that traditional VCs would “get squeezed” but LPs don’t buy it.

LP 286

LP Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup 286