Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Were they vertically integrated ? I was invited to speak to the management team and with board members of KCRW (one of LA’s premiere radio stations) this week. If so, why? Did they dominate one or two areas?

Technical Review 356

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again. Same idea – too young and naive to know it can’t be done.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

San Francisco 151

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

CXL’s own Kyle Brodeur, who manages thousands of videos for CXL Institute courses , likes it for similar reasons: Vimeo has the cheapest cost for storing our videos with the feature sets we require. Brightcove includes: Interactive content; Transcription (with their SubPly partnership); Digital rights management. Brightcove.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.

Private Equity 78

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. With a little help from some existing resources I've managed to build a new formula to help automatically categorise keywords based on the users intent… ?? ?? ?? displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa).

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? This is even more important if you’re managing a “pack” of websites. Use GTM to streamline implementation and management. In one Property or several?

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s an industry that’s long been in need of digitisation and many businesses still find themselves wading through piles of paper invoices, manual processes and managing heterogeneous payment cycles. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences. The integration of Melio by Vinosmith is a good example.

Israel 62

Israel B2B Cloud Europe 62

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

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.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. ” Eric Feng.

Aggregator 207

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. There is no “Facebook of China.”

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device. Aggregate Audience Data.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. When recruiting was hard the functional managers started looking at 2.8-9s. GPA or better. HR would rarely even circulate less than a 3.2

Silicon Valley 333

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 333

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Broadtec ‘s MYTV integrated broadcast management system incorporates sophisticated planning, logistics, rights management, Commercials, media production & inventory. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Israel Social Network Flash 145

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Nearly everyone thinks they can give good management tips.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#. They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Repairy: web-based customer relationship and resource management system for car repair shops and dealerships. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click.

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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. The great thing about large office buildings is you can sometimes convince the HR manager that your service is so cool that they should email the entire company about the offering.

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Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. The other is Angie’s List , a service provider matching company, who managed to raise $22.5

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Venture Capital Vertical Massachusetts eCommerce 79

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics. The Bottom Line.

Artificial Inteligence 127

Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API Israel 83

Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

As video and 3D animations, for example, have been exciting newer verticals, lacking incumbents, these verticals, along with others, are where we also expect to see a number of new companies forming. The companies created in this stage will likely start from a vertical, like video or email, and evolve over time.

Software 84

Software Sales Marketing Vertical 84

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. I have been using Vertical Response for a few years now, I pre-pay for credits in bulk and get a super low price per email, solid 25% lower than MailChimp that I keep hearing a lot of people mention.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. Using Google Tag Manager. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click. It’s proven to work across industries and business models. B2B and B2C. Click maps.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The companion Renzoe-V software is AI-powered to help users manage their makeup collection, discover new products, and easily order refills. There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. This year we aim to serve 50,000 new customers and launch with five new brands.

Architecture 62

Architecture Los Angeles Austin Angel Investor 62

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines. Tesla may be a car company today, but Tesla won’t be a car company in 15 years.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Each app in each vertical is a world of its own. Here’s a table from our dashboard that shows which networks did well and which did not when aggregating rich in-app event data of users who booked a family hotel room in Miami during December. Image Source. Stage 1: Which In-App Events Correlate With Your Goals?

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. These old-school websites are a goldmine of potential customers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7%

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123