thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Boyan Josic’s Daily Deal Media Conference in Chicago. And it was an even greater coincidence that I ended up watching part of his “jobs” speech at the same hotel where many of his 2008 presidential campaign events were held.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. Posted by: Post Work | April 09, 2008 at 07:57 AM. Posted by: Steve | April 09, 2008 at 09:44 AM. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Marcus Sheridan is the king of the question, having used question-driven content to save his failing River Pools & Spa business during the Great Recession of 2008. What questions are your customers asking? Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). Bonus reading material: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Web Analytics. 7 Best Practices ].

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” Search is one of the most inherently measureable media out there. ” panel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Total raised: $22.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Total Raised: $21.4mm. Kontagent. -A

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008).

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2013

2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population even used online devices and a mere 8% were deep users of the web. Do you have Google Analytics installed and do you monitor your traffic at least once a week?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2016

by Jason Kruger, President at Signature Analytics. This means you’re going to need to allocate resources towards scoping a marketing plan, including ad campaigns, media buys, signage, and anything else you might need to get the word out about your SMB. What areas of the business should you invest the most in?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. MediaPRO Community. Post a Job.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Work as an industry thought-leader, representing and evangelising the company at conferences, on-line, off-line and with social media, and through working with and steering relevant industry bodies. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 media and publishing. (6). social media. (3). Top Five Tools of BigData Analytics. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation. and business transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012. about me. (26).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

As a production mixer in mainstream media for more than a decade, I was fed up with the pressure and crazy hours of live news television. Using my analytics background I developed an algorithm to select the best investments. My co-founder and I started LaunchHouse, a coworking community, at the height of the Great Recession in 2008.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This morning Federated Media announced that it has acquired Lijit Networks in a private stock deal. All the while, Lijit has been rapidly growing the list of publishers they work with by providing not only an advertising channel, but search, analytics and insight tools to help Lijit publishers better understand and engage with their audience.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I use my social media and massive amounts of public outreach to bring awareness to my program (my Instagram grew to 12,000 engaged followers). I was tired of reading about dog food company recalls every time I opened up the news or social media. I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Wistia has been around since 2008. YouTube is an obvious and popular choice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Social Media. Social Media Examiner – [link]. The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008 Lists are always popular this time of year so I. Blogging Facebook Podcasting Social Media WordPress Content Marketing SEO video' Buffer – https://blog.bufferapp.com/. Razor Social – [link]. Jon Loomer – [link].

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This morning Federated Media announced that it has acquired Lijit Networks in a private stock deal. All the while, Lijit has been rapidly growing the list of publishers they work with by providing not only an advertising channel, but search, analytics and insight tools to help Lijit publishers better understand and engage with their audience.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

First up, Vishal Agarwal with Spatial Ideas presented LocoBuzz, a social media brand analytics platform coupled with location-specific insights. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Vishal showed a terrific demo that was full of cool features but completely out of context.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

Back in 2008 I wrote a series of blog posts extolling the emerging virtues of RSS technology. Tools like Netvibes (Okay this is an oldie, but it’s kept up) present feeds in a dashboard style and add paid features such as alerts, curation, monitoring and analytics to your reading. If You Liked This Post. :

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. I use analytics. I use social media. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Agree whole heartedly. I create videos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

We take this increased connectivity almost for granted, and because of this many small businesses overlook the platforms, analytic tools, and services available to them and just begging to be leveraged. We have been using this SAAS support ticket management product since we launched our Beta on March 2008. Help desk software: Zendesk.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ▼ 2008. (11).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Risk-takers and Strategists: Jeremiah Owyang on Long-Term Social Media Planning - ReadWriteStart , November 10, 2010 Two years ago, 93% of Americans believed companies should have a social media presence.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

His premise was that the delivery method of software – and whether there was actual media involved (i.e., He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. If you’re still doing SEO by optimizing for keywords, you should know: it’s not 2008 anymore. Web analytics - Google Analytics (or whatever you use) is a goldmine. Become a master of analytics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The company had just 1,00,000 registered users in 2008, which climbed to a staggering 4M registered users within a mere 15 month period, thanks to its straightforward referral program. Leverage Social Media to Promote in-app Referrals. DropBox Referral Marketing Program. How did they do it? Take Industrial Data Into Account .

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In one section, she describes how the human left brain (logical,analytical,looks at parts) and right brain (intuitive,creative,holistic,synthesizing) are forced to work together more in the connected, information overload, multitasking world we are now living in. I highly recommend everyone go see it. It is a nuanced, layered film.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. If you have Web Analytics 2.0

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. One of the best usages of S3 is to store large media files. This service is useful for processing intense data, such as site analytics. Use Google Analytics in Standard And Creative Ways Early on startups need to track things. Not only it is simple, it is also fast.

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