Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. If you are in this category, know that the last “secret” of ecommerce is that figuring out how to weaponize shipping – and free returns – is a powerful conversion increasing engine.

Conversion 124

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improving your visibility and Rankings on Search Engines with SEO. Many startups are using the pandemic to invest in SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is the process of ranking your website for your industry-relevant keywords on search engines. Build your credibility on search engines.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

Artificial Inteligence 63

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed. A company that’s being disrupted certainly feels the pain that their business model is under attack. News AbeBooks Amazon Bookselling Business model disruption twitter'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Business Model Issues. Business Model Issues. Yet healthcare has its own unique regulatory and reimbursement issues and business model issues that must be understood.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”. Learning From Others.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

Starcount , he explains as he demonstrates the site via his laptop projected on a large TV screen, is a social media measurement engine that aggregates and measures social media popularity on a global and local scale across any genre. I inquire after their business model. Monetizing Popularity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. This is always how we saw Maker Studios.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Wikipedia.com defines a “startup company (startup or startup) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process, or a platform.”.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. New York ›.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

Key Observations About the Revenue Engine for Google. it is no secret that the revenue engine for google is advertising. The Problem With the Key Driver of Revenues: Intent Expression Engine. Quota is a human-powered Q&A engine focused on trivial to deep questions. Think about it. People have only 24 hours in a day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. See Page 269. :).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

Oakland 327

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) Matt DeLoca.

Social Media 47

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. That information in aggregate tells a story that any small business should know about their own competitive landscape. Caroline: It depends on the industry. That should be the starting point.

Small Business 60

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 Letting inertia and stubbornness limit your growth and ability to change your business model was cited as cause for failure almost 1/5 of the time. #8 5 – Ran out of cash.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. one quick question – so is it just the situation that all those “business school&# types are screwed? Sorry, folks. Harsh, but probably true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone. Ramen profitable is good while you’re in search of a more scalable business model but is not sustainable for most companies in the long term.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. It’s free.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. So, in the modern world, SaaS is the right option for many innovative business models. Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)? It sounds good !

Management 52

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. Sure, you’re not going to get it right at first, no one does. Fab Culture.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% dasein Yeah, I agree.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. These are mostly search engines, portals and ecommerce platforms (google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, msn.com, aol.com etc). These are mostly search engines, portals and news sites (soso.com, baidu.com, 163.com, But how many sites do you use on a regular basis?

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Russia Hosting Differentiation Social Network 68

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies. Even if they’re not using this to target you with information sent via Twitter, they might use it in aggregate to determine things like the likely electoral votes in a region that will swing for a candidate. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. IP-based services, reduce service delivery costs and introduce new services and Internet business models to grow revenues and IP service profitability. Sagarmatha’s core technology is a sophisticated, proprietary data mining engine.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109