Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

The memories I have of Joel on Software , especially from 2001-2004, run deep. Surely you’ve heard the news by now. Joel Spolsky is going to wrap-up his blog on its 10-year anniversary, just a few days from now. These were my formative years as a developer, and Joel published some of his best work during this time.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Apache SOLR for large scale text search is of course Java-based. That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Apache SOLR for large scale text search is of course Java-based. That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. If you want to read the manifesto and don’t want to bother with the rest of this post, simply go here and click “Yes, please write this manifesto.&# You don’t even need to register.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

The impact on SEO alone can make this an attractive place to invest real dollars and Facebook’s growing importance for marketing is poised to threaten Google’s stranglehold gained through our dependence on organic search. All rights reserved.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. I’ve been posting more and more recently, and my audience has grown faster than at any point in this blog’s history.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A google search of the term now has 141 million results, a more than 100 fold increase on a year ago. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 When a top 10 company by valuation like Facebook, changes its name and focus to the MetaVerse – it is going to generate a lot of attention.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The information needed to make decisions is all around them: in their communities, at events, and at the end of a Google search. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. Today’s buyers are more empowered than ever.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. I wanted to learn about the “secret sauce” of Dell’s merger and acquisition process which seemed to be superior based on what I had observed from my limited vantage point. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be?

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. Until 2004, when the U.S. The primary goal is user acquisition. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. Every vendor ranked benefits from the traffic, audience, and leads produced through top search engine rankings at zero additional cost.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. I’ll talk about that later, because it has to do with one of the website deals I did.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Advanced Search. SmartMoney.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Twissues: Search and Archive all Your Tweets. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. That summer Google released their own Desktop Search solution. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. The Next Web.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Part of any good marketing plan is customer acquisition costs and knowing when those costs are too high. at 11:23 am Ruben – re: conversion numbers, search for pitch decks and VC presentations about freemium. Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Things have really picked up in terms of mergers and acquisitions. Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all hoarding mountains of cash, and Mark Zuckerberg has shown that he isn’t afraid to put his newfound riches to work, with numerous acquisition in the past few months (Instagram, Glancee, and Face.com to name a few).

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Search » Featured Posts. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. Hardware was next, but life sciences and cleantech did not keep pace.

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