VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. But builders who see AI as the driving force behind product development and GTM strategy will actually create new markets and experiences that never existed before.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) (No value judgments here, VCs were doing what the market rewarded them for, and their investors expected – maximum returns.) (And

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

They were developed by Cormac Kinney in the mid-90’s to try to allow traders to beat financial markets. A good rule of thumb is 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen, and also per device (i.e. Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. So how are heat maps useful in the pursuit of higher conversion rates?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. 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.

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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. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

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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. Is 3 hours of developer time more or less than $10k? A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click.

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