Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. We like sight, sound & motion. Time independent.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. By employing algorithms and machine learning, we can now predict market trends, assess property values, and personalize investment strategies with a precision that was previously unattainable.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. Completely ignore the question of whether Facebook works (for many, many, many companies it is a very effective marketing channel). It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2012

The daily deals aggregator says they are seeing more and more merchants listing their deals on deal sites, and consumers haven’t quite had enough of scouting for such deals. All Deals Asia iPhone App. All Deals Asia took around three months to develop the application in-house.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. A true marketplace needs natural pull on both the consumer and supplier side of the market. High Fragmentation.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. Groupon is a consistent slacker in the market.

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2022

Was it Covid-19, the bear market, the plunging prices of cryptocurrencies or changing consumer spending habits that pushed businesses across the globe to redefine the way they manage their workforce and vendor base? How is it possible to automate the end-to-end process to cut on costs and eliminate the likelihood of human errors?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. What is affiliate marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2020

All customers have to do is make a click, and the business will be there to serve them at their doorsteps in the most time and cost-effective fashion. The primary reason that Uber excelled is that it made the overall experience of commuting – convenient and cost-effective. The on-demand business is flourishing and how.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 Could Chewy reduce its marketing or other expenditures and be profitable now? 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability. in revenue.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This kind of uncertainty and market shifts create the kinds of opportunities that we love to see, and has driven our seed investments in current market leaders like ThredUp and Dia&Co with many more opportunities ahead. But few companies have figured out how to create and capture value, and defend that value in this new order.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

I remember suggesting one client use less expensive material to cater to an American market that was plunging into a deep recession and couldn’t afford a premium product — and being told that styles and production had already been planned out a year in advance. But no company was owning this market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. It gives your sales, customer service, business development, marketing, HR, and any other teams direct access to shared information with a better way to manage interactions with customers. Who is using CRM?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There is no shortage of accounting and financial technology (fintech) apps on the market. So, rather than handling these things separately, it is often more valuable to leverage a tool that can aggregate and automatically generate financial reports. Here are a few tips to help you better manage your business finances.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate. The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. aggregates resources from all the VCs. AskAnything.VC Organize events in your vertical.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. The lower costs & lower barriers to entry support this. The Coming Brick Wall.

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

Product manufacturing costs and marketing expenses are what most entrepreneurs plan first, as they comprise a significant portion of the overall startup budget. But one major cost that often surprises new business owners and can make or break your business is the cost of shipping and fulfillment.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

Then, consider the added costs of adding e-commerce, from the cost of setting up your online sales site to the marketing and shipping expenses that you might incur. Test your marketing channel options to see which will be the most effective driver of your new online sales. You don’t need to go all-in on e-commerce.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. Similarly, there will be more opportunities for companies to enter the freelancing platform creation market. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Most business processes today are driven by internal needs to cut costs and maximize quality. Add context and intent to your customer analysis. Make sure all your processes are customer-centric.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Business data includes inventory, customer details, customer orders, employee information and marketing campaigns. A business is an aggregate of multiple repetitive tasks and processes. When a company goes through the process of buying a new system, there’ll be a time or monetary cost for the search, selection and installation.

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Technical Review Technology Cloud Software Review 116

A Crowded Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One of the discussions that usually revolves around marketplaces or platforms is that they will be very effective at gobbling up the mass market, but the best individuals or firms will still transact based on more traditional channels. The master marketplace threatens the high end of the market - the Orrick’s and McKinsey’s of the world.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When Google Analytics makes the most sense : If your business relies on its website solely for marketing purposes—to attract visitors and generate leads—Google Analytics provides most of your actionable data. Other digital marketing experts I asked seconded his opinion. We don’t know the impact of each marketing channel.”.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

From banking to marketing, artificial intelligence is impacting industries all across the board. Generally, companies use artificial intelligence to cut costs or increase revenue. Many financial institutions are leveraging AI-powered chatbots to provide personalized services to their customers and cut down operational costs.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. And then there’s the potential for autonomy.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. I speak from experience, as holder of a fancy MBA degree and once-upon-a-time Vice President of a market research firm charging thousands of dollars for sales forecasts. And you can use the same logic for direct costs too.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

And, by extension, the key to maintaining and growing its search market share, thus capturing more eyeballs for ads.). Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. The lesson?

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Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

Corporate accelerators are one of the best ways for startups to access capital, advice, and markets. EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. In the early phases if you can’t acquire customers cost effectively enough you’ll need to diagnose why and how to fix it. Make sure that you count the “true” cost to acquire customers. SEO is seldom “free.”. lowering $1.50

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It’s what will transform the current market and create new industries. It’s expected to cut costs for healthcare services. Carrier aggregation is used for increasing peak data rates by way of enabling wider bandwidth that is managed by grouping multiple frequency carriers. Anyway, it’s only a part of the truth to know.

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