Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. But by 2014 much had started to change.

Early Stage 290

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. I, as I mentioned, was finishing this fellowship program. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it.

New Jersey 60

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Because MailChimp sends email for thousands of different businesses, it can easily aggregate the send/open data and make useful recommendations. Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013! Easier Integration. Related posts: Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand.

Cloud 48

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Subject to specific rules and dollar limits (10% of your income in aggregate for all investments per year, etc.) you will be able to invest online, just as easily as buying books from Amazon.

Accredited Investor 157

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

On top of that, we built solutions, training, programs, and routes to market by solving each problem we faced and our fellow food entrepreneurs faced. In addition, we run an accelerator program to help businesses scale and grow nationally. In 2013, I started dating a guy who started a marketing agency around the same time.

Entrepreneur 147

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. Just like my brain was programmed to smoke every few minutes, the meddling had become an ingrained behavior. And so we built our company.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in.

Social Network 130

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Since 2013, Bitwise has supported people learning new skills in what they call underdog cities like Fresno, Bakersfield and Merced. Bitwise was shaping up to have a great 2020.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Therefore it’s important to understand not just WHAT your testing program is doing, but WHY it’s doing it. Many email delivery solutions like MailChimp, Bronto, and Campaign Monitor all have A/B functionality built into their programs. Once that’s clear, it’s easy to apply those key principles to many other areas of the business.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

When they met to discuss and attempt to address the issue in January 2013, they realized they had little insight into exactly why customers were leaving. Despite a steady stream of new users, SaaS startup Groove’s 4.5% churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable. Why Did This Happen? The Execution. image source.

Retention 106

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Yet, many don't have access to a well set-up account to build attribution modeling savvy and take their company's analytics the year 2013. Try it when you are in the Store demo account. Take a break. Strong feelings. Now, you can! I mean, Go!

Analytics 60

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Spending wisely allows them to get more and more products and services under their given plan or program. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! It is more complex than the International Space Program. So why is it that YouTube's home page is still such a cluttered mess? Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com It is impossible to understand.

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Wednesday November 7th, 2013. That is why 5% of all net proceeds will be donated to sports programs of local schools. We’re aggregating commercial content on tablets and phones. Ding, Ding, Ding!

San Diego 69

San Diego Founder Cofounder Stock 69

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Now, however, there are an expanding number of ways to acquire specific skills and knowledge faster and less expensively than one can manage through a traditional four-year degree program. And yet what they find most telling is not how well people do in four-year-degree programs, but how well they do in settings that approximate workplaces.

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

practicetrumpstheory.com

JULY 14, 2010

Note: The “Tell Friends” here is used to publicize shared galleries and I don’t count it towards “Referral” I view “Referral” actions as being more deliberate endorsements of the product such as through an affiliate program. This skews numbers at the boundaries of the funnel. Running Lean'

Metrics 51

Metrics Lean Retention Startup 51

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Skype became part of Microsoft so I was at Microsoft for two years and then in September of 2013 I left Microsoft and GroupMe to start Fundera which is an online marketplace for small business loans. You can kind of think of it like a kayak for small business.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Tnufa – Startup Promotion Program (Hebr. About VC Cafe.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

According to her data, Montanes says impact tech VCs have yet to realize exits: around 100 startups have been acquired (and a few IPOs) with an aggregate value of around $90 billion (excluding $18 billion of Tesla’s IPO). Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. Companies we never really got to know are simply starting to fade away. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93