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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. I think we’ll see more from the online lending space in 2011, so I may just have been too early on that part of the prediction! Now, on to my predictions for 2011: __.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

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.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark).

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Evolero empowers conference organizers to fully utilize today’s social web for their conference.