Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As this cash will not be used to fund organic growth initiatives, we can expect several acquisitions in the coming 24 months. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Portfolio. (3).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. To prepare for this we invested in Virtual Tour cameras and software and packaged it with our other services. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. Thanks to Gavin Johnson, Evking ! #3-

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? It’s in Google’s self interest to provide the best search experience for the user.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It was also found that “Engaged” customers received 3-4 (or more) reviews of their portfolios and were taking part of on-going conversations where their advisor was soliciting feedback and asking for actual input. Read the full case study here.). . ” So what? Do You Know Who Is Sending The Referrals?

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. However, these websites come with different reach, work requirements, and payment terms.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?" You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

How can I e.g. determine the ROI of my mobile traffic acquisition, when people regularly convert on their laptops later… What would be the current best practice to move towards a proper cross-device attribution, while maintaining or improving on privacy standards at the same time?? That means: All of these metrics are off. Yes and no.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 24, 2010

Not “website flipping&# as the press seems to categorize anything to do with buying or selling websites, but taking a long-term approach to finding income-generating web properties and building a portfolio. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. Computer Software. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Perhaps you wake up in the morning and walk into a store and buy new clothes (or expensive software from Oracle). Well, you can sign up to be notified of when reviews of something you are considering are posted (PS: how clever is that, and why does Amazon not do this?). There are some audiences who exhibit that behavior.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

If you are willing to create a small portfolio of initiatives then you can get a pretty decent understanding of the hidden impact (offline) of your web presence. Bonus Tip : Oh and if you want to get a smidgen more value, configure the store locater search parameter in your internal site search and bam bam (!!) Not too shabby.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. One problem theyve solved is how to think about acquisitions.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

It is a bit silly to believe you can use one tool for purpose x (say search analysis) and another for purpose y (say everything else). You already have the paid analytics software combos mentioned above. Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3).

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although freelancing may be hard at the beginning, once freelancers build trust and a portfolio of satisfied clients likely to refer even more customers to them, freelancing becomes a source of steady and predictable cash flow. Most freelancers search for gigs and freelance jobs online and that’s when the freelance platforms step in.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

In addition, we are working with more modest capital, for example, the current fund we are putting together (first of many), is $5.0M, which will be used to invest up to $500K in approximately 10 seed stage companies in the Internet, software, telecom, security/defense and alternative energy sectors.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). One Datacenter.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. Seed Startups.

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