Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

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. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. Year of Social Utilities. Are you ready? *A

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

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). I thought it would be worth taking a look at the data across the Foundry portfolio.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. Venture is a field with a power-law distribution of outcomes.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

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

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Once a site is successful in gaining users for their free portfolio tool, you end up having solved your initial supply challenge. Find aggregators. See: Gigwalk.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. 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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30). How did you get into VC? (9:30

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 236

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 236

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Let’s take a look at the actual data. (If

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

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. Here's an example.

Search 156

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Traditional distribution services no longer work. Expensive Agencies. Press Release Wires.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. The change required based on this data is not just your marketing portfolio re-allocation, that is almost trivial, what' bigger, huger, crazy-harder is changing how your company thinks. Try it when you are in the Store demo account. Take a break.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

Crypto is a bubble, and while I understand the value in a decentralized and distributed ledger, I believe the near-term economic impact of the actual blockchain technology is <10% of the current aggregate crypto market cap.

Austin 48

Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

Analytics 125

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 125

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In 2010, the company became a preferred content aggregator for the Apple iBookstore and is one of the largest providers of book content to Apple. “This investment will enable us to go to market faster and bring new technology offerings to our customers across all three media types.”.

Aggregator 54

Aggregator New York Distribution Security 54

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Let’s take a look at the actual data. (If

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. That is worth fighting for.

Analytics 142

Analytics Web Metrics DC 142

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Cash distributions are what matter at the end of the day, bug big paper gains still make for good fundraising pitches. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Performance.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then there have been entrepreneurs who sort of don't do anything in the realm of biotech but can somehow help with logistics or distribution or whatever that like, "I am going to ask my friends who do run biotech companies or hospitals or whatever, what they need me to do and then all of our plans are out the window.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

As you improve the user experience, information architecture and relevancy of content on your site, it is important to keep an eye not on the rather useless metric of Average Page Views per Visit or Average Time on Site but rather on the distribution of page depth.

Metrics 153

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 153

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

I wonder what the distribution looks like? at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Now you have excellent context for making smarter decisions about the full-value of each acquisition channel in your portfolio. Is that what we are solving for? Are there some outliers?

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can accomplish these goals: ~ Get an optimal understanding of what kind of people you ended up attracting to your website (look at primary purpose & distribution). You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. In the above case that is clearly not true. Sounds dicey!! :)).

Campaign 130

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 130

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

Israel 68

Israel OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Mce Systems. MailVision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. aggregation. VC Portfolios. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Pivotal Tracker â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Mercurial â?? Preceden â?? advertising.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Israel Startup 53

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Global warming, by accentuating drought and melting glaciers, will have a key impact on water resources distribution and will increase the unbalance. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48