ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Statisco Economic Analytics. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. The only difference is, this time, there is no bubble waiting to burst. The answer is no.

Mobile 151

Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. Mobile analysts say that fewer than one in three users are likely to grant permission, while 96% of U.S. User privacy.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Front Desk is powering the personal services economy, helping providers manage their scheduling, payments, and admin from their mobile device. We welcomed two new companies to our portfolio in Q1; both will be announced at a later date but fall into the themes we have been exciting about: AI/ML/bots and vertical social networks.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

This answer has to be correct and complete, and can be displayed in a relatively small amount of space: the size of a mobile phone screen. Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. “Know Simple queries seek a very specific answer, like a fact, diagram, etc.

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”. So this acquisition is worth more than $20m in revenue, which at the average revenue-multiple for public tech companies , yields $100m in market value. This had to be remedied.

Balance Sheet 242

Balance Sheet Vertical Acquisition Revenue 242

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Social usage is almost entirely spent on mobile. . Startup landscapes, while not perfect, are useful as they provide a way for us to define a space/category and the players of that vertical.

Vertical 113

Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. million (partly thanks to their acquisition of RTFKT), followed by Dolce & Gabbana at $25.7 And it started off with primarily text, right, when I was in college, then we all got these smartphones and had cameras so that it became a lot of photos.

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Version One Ventures

JULY 11, 2013

Vertically integrated commerce (investments: Julep , Frank & Oak ): Last September, I wrote an article for TechCrunch outlining why vertically integrated retailers represent the next wave in e-commerce. It also means lower customer acquisition costs and lower capital requirements.

North America 147

North America Vertical Venture Capital Early Stage 147

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. And their branding and demand creation activities were going to occur primarily outside of Australia.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. However, there continues to be trepidation to such change in the majority of the industry, and the reality differs across verticals and regions.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Yet, in my own work with various incubators, I am often struck by the lack of vertical focus. But if you believe software is eating the world, vertical industry by vertical industry, business process by business process, then we should start seeing more entrepreneurs pursuing vertically-centric strategies.

Vertical 41

Vertical Incubator Software Acquisition 41

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Joe Greenstein of Flixster , the leading movies app on all social and mobile platforms, wants to take big risks with small dollars. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

This is a subheading for your ad, separated from the first title by a vertical bar. Mobile URL. This should be the same as your final URL unless you have a different URL for mobile users. People usually notice your title first to decide if your ad is relevant. It’s a good idea to include keywords in your title. Title part 2.

PPC 100

PPC Matching Software Review Campaign 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. 3) Vertically Integrate - Apple could also vertically integrate in more radical ways.

Hungary 168

Hungary Dividend Vertical Preferred Stock 168

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

For every session on your desktop or mobile site, Session Quality provides a score between 1 and 100 as an indication of how close the visitor is to converting. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. You can download an Excel version of the Impact Matrix at the end of this post.].

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. The details of how an augmented reality OS should work are incredibly complex — far more than desktop or mobile computing. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ? image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

Customer 247

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ? image source.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ? image source.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ? image source.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2017

Full stack vertical AI startups actually work – main reason: low level task based AI gets commoditised quickly whereas vertical AI plays solve full-stack industry problems with subject matter expertise and unique data which make them defensible. This reached the point where $m per PhD was talked about as an acquisition metric.

Artificial Inteligence 80

Artificial Inteligence API Vertical Algorithm 80

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. -DST invested $180mm last fall.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. After all, it’s all about reach for mobile apps. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? billion people.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). In absolute numbers, that translates into 243 million new mobile phone users worldwide that will start using mobile messaging apps this year. year over year.

Social Network 74

Social Network Russia Mobile Japan 74

A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

Startups are attacking just about every vertical. For elder caregivers that are working at an agency — the main benefit is client acquisition and stability of work. That should be way more than enough to cover acquisition costs. . 1) Value-add from the mobile app. It is an $84B industry in the US. .

Disintermediation 79

Disintermediation Acquisition Curation Vertical 79

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

A big part of that is speed and mobile friendliness. Test new features with Google’s rendering tool in Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and their Mobile-Friendly Test: Google Search Console. Google Mobile-Friendly Test. Google PageSpeed Insights. SEO is a pull channel, and search volume is indicative of demand.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. Mobile First!), say like etsy or the original ebay), the line HAS TO blur between a “marketplace” and a “platform.”

Vertical 74

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 74

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. Mobile First!), say like etsy or the original ebay), the line HAS TO blur between a “marketplace” and a “platform.”

Vertical 60

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 60

Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2016

After the acquisition, AwesomenessTV empowered us to go back to our core DNA of management and shed the MCN moniker. Do you think vertical content (Multi-Channel Networks) MCNs are the future? Because moms are so mobile and flock to places like Instagram and blogs, we are working with creators that aren’t just YouTube specific.

Vertical 48

Vertical Channel Curation Community 48

justinmares.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Think of several traction verticals that could potentially work for you, and come up with cheap ways to test them as acquisition channels. For example, if you think PR could be a strong traction vertical for your mobile app, spend a week pitching media outlets and see what kind of user adoption/traffic come about as a result.

Vertical 44

Vertical Lean Channel PR 44

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM. It just takes some modification of those toolkits into a format that Mobilizers can access and use effectively.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Not having a fast, functional, incredible mobile-friendly website. billion mobile phones. There are 6.9 billion of them actively use 4.3

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126