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. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

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

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. And you can submit events to event aggregators like Eventful; news to Google News, Bing News and Yahoo News and submit content to local sites like Patch.

Search 100

Search Fractional CTO Small Business Syndication 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If you segment your A/B test results by browser version, you might discover that customers coming from the Safari web browser are converting much better than the average. Your experimental controls, Stewart says, need to be equal: sample size, performance range, and distribution of outlier behavior.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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. Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? Creating product mock-ups , wireframes, etc.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. T]he consumer web has matured. T]he consumer web has matured.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

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

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

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Web Analytics tools in the market are not the answer (especially across multi-channel and multi-devices). The credit distribution is proportional to content consumption (I like page count and not time) and finally apply the rules based on position in the path. Here's a post you might find valuable: Who Owns Web Analytics?

Analytics 125

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 125

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally. Perhaps thats a fallacy?

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jonathan Gandolf, the founder and CEO of The Juice, a B2B content platform aimed at solving marketers’ biggest pain points in distribution, reach, and audience engagement.

Marketing 91

Marketing B2B Distribution Audience 91

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

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

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Rather than needing to do capacity planning, gather data internally, and then use a custom-built web application to determine your pricing, you can just read the grid and make a decision in 30 seconds. Speaking of custom-built web applications to determine pricing, the best product with the worse pricing strategy is Heroku.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

The idea is that people look where they hover, and thus it shows how users read a web page. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% Image Source).

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

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. Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Results from the testing tool should not be stored in a data silo, but rather be combined with other databases, such as the web analytics system or the DWH. If, in contrast, your testing tool is connected to the web analytics tool, you can evaluate these metrics. The left graphic shows a perfect (theoretical) normal distribution.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models. But with media-based businesses, the distribution of outcomes is markedly different in part because the value capture by new disruptive startups is different.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

Media 145

Media Israel Social Network Flash 145

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. All numbers in aggregate are at best marginally useful, and that rule applies to this one too. All of the above is still kind of at an aggregate level.

Analytics 137

Analytics Metrics Search Aggregator 137

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap.

Analytics 142

Analytics Web Metrics DC 142

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Specifically, the “narrow network” typically aggregates those providers that are willing to accept lower prices for their services (theoretically you could have a “premium” narrow network, but they are typically used to create more affordable plans).

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

It’s been amazing to see Google (98% of its video traffic comprised of YouTube) steadily increase its market share for six months straight (see chart below where I aggregated the info from a few months of ComScore press releases). It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content.

Video 100

Video .Net Distribution Aggregator 100

Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

It’s been amazing to see Google (98% of its video traffic comprised of YouTube) steadily increase its market share for six months straight (see chart below where I aggregated the info from a few months of ComScore press releases). It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content.

Video 100

Video .Net Distribution Aggregator 100

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Now you have a trusted recommendation to try a service and you get free distribution to all employees. See: Github , OpenTable. See: MyEatClub , Zimride. See: Gigwalk.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101