ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. Next, look at any companies or suppliers you already partner with. For example, one of the sponsors for RailsConf is Zendesk. Are they a potential sponsor? Reach out to potential sponsors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. This panel will help you get a better understanding of how Talent-Leadership-Culture drives ROI and how it can be achieved, with Wade Allen, CEO of Cendea, Jim Bledsoe, Senior Partner of Cendea, and KimGorsuch, CEO of Weeva.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

One developer got so sick of repeating this task that he built us a tool that APIs out of a Google Sheet into a publishing interface. Partnering with your development team to templatize page creation. Why not ask your team to build tools to manage updates yourself? You can do it by: Spending at least 80% of your time on action.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This year, the company partnered with HP and plans on embedding the motion-control technology on future HP devices. Snapchat made waves earlier this year when the company reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion acquisition attempt from Facebook and $4 billion from Google. Snapchat lets users send disappearing photos and videos to friends.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. Better search. This involves learning context and content attributes.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now? Business - how are you actually going to make money?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. Eric and I will be working on others.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2017

The post was written by Bradford Cross, partner at Data Collective. Machine-learning as-a-service dies a death – main reason: machine learning APIs are two dumb for AI experts and too difficult for AI novices. Machine learning APIs aren’t solving a problem for anyone. They don’t have a market.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 5, 2011

Few people are aware of this, but BackType had already built an interesting (and revenue generating) API business. Their API helped power features for bit.ly , Chartbeat , HubSpot , The Huffington Post , Radian6 and over 100 other partners. Congrats Team BackType!

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Social Media API United States Metrics 90

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. Simply having an API doesn’t make your company a platform. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Google of course has Android. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, growth marketers, digital analysts, email marketing specialists, and customer acquisition specialists all do some form of conversion optimization. As the market matures, these limitations become more apparent, and with it the increased demand for APIs and ‘headless’ optimization platforms. ” Deeper Data Skills.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. You Need a Disrupter.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. We were basically emailing Excel workbooks back and forth to our bank partners every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Face recognition space has recently gotten interesting, following the acquisition of Swedish startup Polar Rose by Apple, estimated at $22-$29 million. TheMarker reports that since opening its API in May this year, Face has seen 5,000 developers use its technology on the cloud, with no need for installations.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Take Hertz: They’re now suing their marketing partner, Accenture, for $32 million after a botched site and app overhaul. AMP for acquisition, PWAs for engagement. For example, the History API gives developers the ability to modify a website’s URL without a full page refresh. That ignorance is expensive. Offline mode tracking.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

So just to close off the task part at least for the time being, yes, I would like to create an API integration, so if you use Asana, great, for your tasks. So if I make an open API, you can make a bridge for the tool that you use. Nobody can do an API. Why not get a partner? Jason: It’s too complicated. And maybe.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For example, your link-building partners might give you warm intros to their connections. You could also try reaching out to people your partners collaborate with—you already have something in common, so it won’t be your typical cold outreach. . Normally, I recommend starting with clients, partners, and email subscribers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. Cons: Measurement of acquisition channels appears to be a mute point with Clicktale. And through its API, our development team can quickly build and QA a test with many variations.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2024

Acknowledged for its commitment to social responsibility, Transformify helps mid-sized business and enterprises automate talent acquisition, onboarding,billing and contractor payments, enabling them to reach a varied talent pool that includes underrepresented groups. On top of that, Transformify supports payments in 20+ crypto currencies.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. Partner up? No legal muck.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Source: Company data, S1 filings, CapitalIQ, Accel analysis, Bessemer Venture Partners Finally, while it is still early days in the public markets, as European SaaS matures, the path ahead looks promising. From a financing standpoint, 29 companies from the list have raised more than $100 million, and the list has raised a total of $9.6

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Anish Acharya , a16z fintech general partner In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. But most of all, it will benefit us as consumers.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

Business Model: Time to get some channel and business partners on board, because adding revenue by adding sales and marketing dollars is going to be expensive - no matter what the early LTV vs. CAC data shows. Should we pursue adjacent M&A or tuck in acquisitions to expand our market footprint? Anyone up for a rewrite?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Rich and award-winning line of location-based applications for the end-users (VAS) • Maps and LBS APIs for developers as a CSP branded developers zone, enabling more apps in portal and increased usage of data, SMS and MMS. The ASOCS MP100 processor, featuring the ModemX™ core, represents a evolutionary approach to communications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2013

Make application programming interfaces (APIs) open and freely available to developers, partners, and consumers. Seek intelligent acquisitions, extensions, and directions. Plan on making strategic acquisitions to enhance your core competency, both in terms of depth and breadth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2012

Make application programming interfaces (APIs) open and freely available to developers, partners, and consumers. Seek intelligent acquisitions, extensions, and directions. Plan on making strategic acquisitions to enhance your core competency, both in terms of depth and breadth.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

” The report, co-authored by Fenwick partners Barry J. View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=BoomTown. PayPal Trumps Square’s Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover. Latest Video.

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Valuation Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 45

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Use their api to handle payment related stuff. Rovi API has everything you need for information. Rdio provides the music and the player via an API. Box API lets you store files dynamically! Camera, video, and most of the APIs described above for web Tools). Google Geocoding API. Managing APIs.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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