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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Programmatic investing using natural language – Using natural language or decision trees, consumers with no knowledge of code can build algorithms that execute trades for them. It’s time to build!

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

But algorithms haven’t always kept pace. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Google’s Knowledge Cards, Kohn offers , are a perfect example of aggregating intent—answering a query and providing valuable context.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30).

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device. Aggregate Audience Data.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 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.

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. What about algorithm-generated heat maps? It’s a picture based on an algorithm—not actual user behavior.

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