VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The landscape grew to 2,011 companies in 2024 from merely 139 logos in 2012 when it was first published. As pre-seed investors, it’s never too early to have a conversation. Techcrunch, who covered the demo day, featured about 10… Another example is The 2024 MAD landscape (Machine Learning, AI & Data) by Matt Turck.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2012

However, the overall economic growth experienced during 2012 has brought with it a shift in confidence among business owners, and in 2013, there will be a steady return to traditional, “old-fashioned” client service empowered with new digital tools. In doing so, customer service began to take a backseat to customer acquisition.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Ron Dennis from McLaren Group came on stage for a fantastic one-on-one talk with Snabe and I really enjoyed the video that opened this as well as the conversation. Overall, it was logical and confidence inspiring to hear him walk through this.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

When your site traffic suddenly dips or your rankings plummet, it will create lost opportunities that affect your conversions and sales. An example of a website traffic issue due to an algorithm update would be a case in 2012 when several websites experienced huge drops in traffic. Why your website is losing traffic.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2021

Muhummad Mahdi (left) and Arifin Hasan (right), Founders of Nitex In 2012, Bangladeshi computer science student Muhammad Mahdi received a call from an old high school friend, Arifin Hasan. As conversation began, they, like many college students, began fantasizing about building their dream companies. Hasan wanted to meet up again.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012. June 4th, 2012. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Leading digital marketers from around the Asia Pacific and beyond gathered yesterday at ad:tech Singapore 2012 to share and discuss the continuing growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Lots of great insight in this Hacker News Conversation about MVPs and getting started - [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link]. Round Up of Free Fonts of 2012 | Sharing Mantra – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

He is the founder and CEO of BounceX , a people-based marketing consultancy that helps organizations increase their online conversion rates. Founded in 2012, BounceX’s People-Based Marketing (PBM) cloud is the first new revenue channel with scale in 10 years.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

In the world of payment gateways, I’ve found that companies prefer to start with a pre-configured gateway loaded with features that increase conversions. since September 2009 and its Executive Vice President of Global Markets since until August 2012. He served as the President of P&H Solutions Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas. The conversation will be free-ranging, and it will include live Q&A with attendees, so we don’t know exactly what will happen. But there are a few themes Dan and plan to hash out.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

February 9, 2012 by Ann Smarty. February 9, 2012 14:28:44. February 9, 2012 14:46:14. February 9, 2012 15:20:40. February 9, 2012 14:56:25. February 9, 2012 15:20:12. February 9, 2012 15:00:23. February 9, 2012 15:05:56. February 9, 2012 15:19:24. February 9, 2012 15:17:45.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

You can find this, and 26 other science fictions that became science facts in 2012, in the Other section below. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation? Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012 | NYT – [link]. The 50 Most Hilarious Autocorrects Of 2012!

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actionable Analysis Analyzing Customer Data Conversion & ROI ROI Marketing Verifying Business Value. Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. Adding to this pressure, social media conversion rates are low relative to other marketing strategies. 2012 was a key year in Digital Marketing. December 10, 2012. June 11, 2012.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The email looked like this: I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback loops recently and thought it would be helpful to touch base on how we worked together in 2011 and think a bit about anything that we need to change about our interactions in 2012 (talk more; talk less; more concentrated time together; etc.).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Building learning organizations will require what I call “learning conversations.” For these conversations to be productive and successful, team members will need to suspend judgment, engage in active, reflective listening, and consider the views of others. Women are more in tune with interpersonal sensitivity.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

At the end of the day Kayak’s playing a key role in the online travel process, but it appears more of the revenue comes from filling top of the conversion funnel rather than the middle or bottom of it. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Calling it Informed Automation, as opposed to Artificial Intelligence, our conversation covers the future of this technology, envisioning AI systems with a deeper understanding of context and autonomy. That's something we realized around 2012 and then after around 2017, so between 2012 and 2017, progress was very linear.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Algorithm Technical Review 73

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

One of the best and easiest ways to find like-minded people is to have a lot of conversations with purpose, i.e. a goal defining what you want to extract from this person. Many of our employees came to us by way of candid conversations we had at conferences, round tables and other interactions. Do they *get* what you’re trying to do?

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2013

Today North American internet users have climbed to 79% ( US Census Bureau ) with a whopping 90% of these users claiming they use the web to help them make purchasing decisions ( Fleishman Hillard 2012 Digital Influence Index ). Here are some criteria to help see if you’re website is hip and happening or pathetic and passé.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 by Chris Taylor. July 18, 2012 10:15:01. July 18, 2012 10:20:12. July 18, 2012 10:26:22. July 18, 2012 10:36:46. July 18, 2012 10:52:20. July 18, 2012 11:14:22. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. OUYA CEO: We’re Confident We Will Deliver. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 13, 2012 by Brian Sullivan. The “convergence” part means that A and C will eventually yield similar conversion rates (conversion in this case being whether users logged in or not). January 13, 2012 15:51:33. January 13, 2012 16:20:18.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. ” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. The Series A crunch is hitting now.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Which posts published in 2012 proved to be most popular? The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Ecommerce Conversion Rates. 53 Ways to Increase Conversion Rate. These 10 blog posts got the most attention this year. Controversy and challenging the status quo made this post the winner. Value propositions are hugely important.

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eCommerce Design Conversion Web 93

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Through further conversation it turned out that the 200 units were sold 6 months ago and the company had not sold anything since.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2012, the national government created the programs iNNpulsa and apps.co, both promote innovation , business, and technological developments in Colombia by providing funds and coaching programs to promising entrepreneurs. The government creates programs to help entrepreneurs.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

July 10, 2012 by Curt Finch. Stay tuned to the payments intelligence conversation through the Litle Blog and Twitter. July 10, 2012 09:40:07. July 10, 2012 10:50:39. July 10, 2012 11:12:07. July 10, 2012 11:21:19. July 10, 2012 11:36:32. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Like Tweet.

eCommerce 101

eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Great landing pages equals more customers enticed to engage plus higher conversions plus higher (AdWords) quality score. Macro + Micro Conversions. Macro + Micro Conversions. Macro + Micro Conversions. Macro + Micro Conversions. Macro + Micro Conversions. Macro + Micro Conversions. Magnificent.

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

With more support than ever for Web standards, IE10 goes a long way to put Microsoft’s browser in the modern HTML5 conversation. According to Google’s own stats, as recently as mid-2012, these versions of Android (mostly 2.3.x) Fortunately, the 2012 holiday season seems to have broken the logjam. By the end of 2013, Android 2.x

HTML 90

HTML Mobile API Cloud 90

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Around 2012, I knew that sexual violence on college campuses was at public health epidemic levels. With the help of students at Duke University, we created an in-person, peer-led prevention training program that has been rolled out with students in Greek life at Duke over the past three years called Starting the Conversation.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 10, 2012

In the spirit of expanding the FEI 2012 conversation, I asked Mike what question he would like to pose to the group which will form next week in Orlando. ” FEI 2012 will be 99% big company oriented. It’s small, it’s uncomplicated, it’s informal, and yet, wow, things are happening.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Before you can even finish your pitch, people are already making judgments of your company, and bad names can be a real distraction to important conversations. October 3, 2012 14:52:37. October 3, 2012 15:28:03. October 3, 2012 20:30:29. October 4, 2012 04:53:23.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There have been many different language translations of Venture Deals since it was first published in 2012. Conversion right: In Germany, there is generally no conversion right entitling the holder of preferred shares to convert them into common shares at any time. this is usually done by adjusting the conversion price.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Forbes Impact Summit’s Mission and Format Forbes’ Chief Content Officer, Randall Lane, stated that since 2012, the summit has quietly assembled the planet’s most accomplished individuals and exceptional problem-solvers. What were some of the panel debate topics at the event?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

13, 2012?—?I That chapter, “Markets Are Conversations”, moved me more than almost anything I had ever read (you can read it for free at that link). io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012. So here we go with the second lesson from The Entrepreneur’s Essentials. The “voice of the marketplace”?—?it

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

But this forced a good conversation about not taking money that was on the table. Our conversation broke out into two threads. However, the goal of the conversation and the context was to figure out how to own the market and create the biggest pie for everyone. Here’s the data: 2007: 10%. Real money.

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