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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. I said this many times publicly before it ever started happening with Tweetdeck and Seesmic.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. If so, why?

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

ConversionXL

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? What are your business requirements?

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Click Maps. Image Source). Attention maps.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. When looking closely at the verticals above, they found that two forces were at play—instant gratification and customization.

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