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7 High-Performing Ecommerce Marketing Strategies for 2022

ConversionXL

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3. Tactics are the specific activities you’ll use to communicate with customers (for example, advertising on social media with a 20% discount code). Set your sights on Google’s Popular Products 4.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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The Version One Anti-Portfolio – the opportunities we missed…

Version One Ventures

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. Outcome: Just sold to PayPal for $4B (PayPal’s largest acquisition to date). We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. And yeah, $12M felt kind of high :-).

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event.

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