The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Bike shedding refers to the idea that groups will choose to ignore complex problems and focus on the trivial in order to show personal contribution. Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham coined the term Schlep Blindness to refer to a group’s tendency to avoid unpleasant tasks. Bike Shedding. ” Schlep Blindness.

Startup 130

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. These are sites that show you put all the daily deals in one place, and make an affiliate commission for referring customers.

Israel 102

Israel Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. So why is demographic diversity important?

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

Founder 159

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Demandbase cross-references its database to find companies that are a good fit. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation. TechTarget uses those cookies to aggregate intent data from site visitors.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines. Aggregated search engine level analysis.

Search 156

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Revenue per Facebook-referred visitor (staying with last click attribution for now). Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Aggregate impact on your Facebook brand page? Number of qualified leads.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf , a personal-data aggregator that has been the subject of a remarkable amount of controversy but is wildly useful as a data provider to must-see apps like Rapportive and Gist. Resume, references: sure. Are they successful because they get back to people or the other way around?

Silicon Valley 130

Silicon Valley Hiring Technical Review Due Diligence 130

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. Direct competitor comparisons. But you get the idea.

Conversion 125

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 125

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Google’s Knowledge Cards, Kohn offers , are a perfect example of aggregating intent—answering a query and providing valuable context. In SERPs, Google shows its hand. The lesson?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Just so we have a visual guide through this learning process, let's use the above image as a reference. So, the campaign could be Social, Organic Search, Email, Display, Affiliate, Referring Site … anything really. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. You do too. #3.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. This means that you can avoid duplicating messages, making incorrect claims, and reference distinct elements that may be important to that customer. More broadly, you can look at purchasing, communication, and feedback trends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2012

You’ve heard enough about the need to produce content that I’m guessing you’re probably blogging away and curating, aggregating and filtering all manner of content. On a scale of 1-10 how likely is it that you would refer us. 5 Ways to Get Your Customers to Create Content For You This content from: Duct Tape Marketing.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Four simple metrics that help you understand how effective you are in the acquisition stage of your email marketing. More ideas here and here.

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! High Scores in personable use positive emotion words, ask questions, express their own ambivalence and reference others frequently. Like in the image above.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. ’ like all startups have to, but also “why invest now?'” ” (David Beisel). This is not always easy to do.

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Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The aggregate KA score would be computed as E × LE. Personalization refers to ways to exchange knowledge with other employees. The maximum AF score is 100. The higher the score, the greater the need for knowledge retention. Personalization and codification. These two components are not mutually exclusive. The Golden Gem.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When someone clicks on a link to navigate from Page A (referring page) to Page B (destination page), the URL of the referring page is passed to the destination page by the browser in a field called “HTTP Referrer.”. Navigation from a link on a tool that doesn’t pass the HTTP Referrer value or has no referring page (e.g.,

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Green roofing structures refer to roofing that is covered with vegetation. A typical green roof is constructed using vegetation, drainage, crushed aggregate, and filter fleece. This vegetation usually includes grass, plants, and bushes.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Green Aggregator 52

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Finally, Groove sent the following email to two groups—their most engaged users, and a random control group—around their referral program with a month free incentive: (minus the reference to usage): image source. The Research. Why Did This Happen?

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

that may not seem like a lot, but as tasks aggregate throughout the day, so does saved time. Sometimes even forgetting what was on a previous page, we end up re-verifying our reference documents, spending time on what could simply be displayed right in front of is. minutes faster using a multi-monitor setup?—?that

Product 48

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

One of the most difficult decisions in creating the Series Seed Documents was whether to make them a very simple version of traditional Series A documents or a more radical departure from the traditional format (to the extent that corporate finance legal documents can be referred to as radical). price based anti-dilution).

Finance 58

Finance Term Sheet Equity Aggregator 58

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2014

Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. His approach was simple.

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France Aggregator Web Entrepreneur 168

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Data-driven machine learning algorithms can evaluate a review, a comment or a question in a forum and determine the topic, the product it refers to and the sentiments of the customer. The true voice of the customer was usually heard only when it was too late, as a complaint. Challenges of data driven marketing. An ocean of data.

Artificial Inteligence 66

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Algorithm Social Media 66

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. extraneous SHIMMER reference spotted; you are dating yourself eric. (Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) Great Post on Start Ups.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

When banking institutions share financial information electronically and securely with third-party providers, this is referred to as open banking. With open banking solutions, third-party services can quickly acquire aggregate data from many financial institutions. How will this industry shift impact you? What is open banking?

Harvest 263

Harvest United States Security Aggregator 263

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

2930) , commonly referred to as Crowdfunding. Are you refering to the various early stage platforms that are popping up? My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Monday, November 14, 2011. Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid Idea?

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SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Voice of Customer (VOC) refers to the process of discovering the wants and needs of customers through qualitative and quantitative research. Does it feel seamless and fun? Does it work? Voice of Customer.

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Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. They work steady hours, but not for lack of drive; their references say they have exceptional output. Aggregate results carefully. Not all crowds are wise. cause disaster.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If there is nothing in the referring string, that visit is marked as Direct. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. Not people-based, a euphemism I use to refer to small groups of "persons" where you can't identify any one person. Fruition Internet Marketing. It is silly, even today, to pretend otherwise.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And if most of them allow for you to be in the sweet spot, then you can say in aggregate, you're in the sweet spot. John Jantsch (05:45): I've, I've actually referred to it as seasons. And if you think about your life, you're balancing your portfolio of S curves where you've got your career. Maybe it's a really steep curve.

Leadership 95

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 95

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Our next team up was Personal Libraries which proposed to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A lot of small businesses, and when I say small, I’m referring to kind of 10-person companies, 5-person companies, 20-person companies. It’s one of the other drivers we talk about at Value Builder and that is is how willing are your customers to refer you? John Warrillow: That’s huge. It’s huge.

Entrepreneur 68

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 68

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. It is a complex IT project in and of itself. million CPUs.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Cliff also sparked an idea that along with using in a separate conversations sparked the idea that we should be using Southern California Tech Central as a means of helping to aggregate the conversation. What are the objectives / goals: Learning Getting to know each other Helping each other with issues we face Referring business, people, etc.

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Los Angeles Networking Southern California Aggregator 150