Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Panelists do not believe there is sustainable truly proprietary flow (though I think they are defining this too narrowly as sales with only 1 buyer) Platinum looks at as direct- (20%) and indirect-sourced (80%), not proprietary vs. non-proprietary.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust. Let me try to explain the pricing in words so that you can understand why: It costs $11 per server plus $2 per website. They were very concerned with competing with free.

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Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. What most people don’t know is that every click is traceable.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

No, those next levels of competitive business striving - toward double digit and beyond revenue growth, real and tangible profit, meaningful asset aggregation, and toward brands, cultures, and reputations that stand the test of time. And of our burning desire to compete and win. population works in the private sector. As professionals.

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Balance Sheet Jordan Non-Compete Aggregator 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Non-Monetary Incentives. Fortunately, there are other low or no-cost alternatives to get people to do work on your startup. It’s the best way to compete for the talent you need.

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Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

From the seller’s perspective, the first step in connection with the sale of his company is the negotiation and execution of a confidentiality agreement (sometimes referred to as a “non-disclosure agreement” or an “NDA”) with the potential buyer. on a need-to-know basis. Accordingly, the seller should insert a basket (i.e.,

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Non-disclosure Agreement Acquisition New York City Non-Compete 101

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. Hence the problem why they are having a hard time generating leads on a cost-basis that makes sense for them. The rise of the non-accredited investor as a vital stakeholder for both platforms and issuers.

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Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. It has been downloaded by 2 million time, requiring less CPU processing than competing text input apps.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Our cost to acquire a customer on AdWords was only a few cents.

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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% Might be kinda large market.,

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. This is the blog post I needed to read. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

These days, getting that sheepskin from a top-flight university can cost approximately $200,000 in tuition alone. To help temper the high cost of college, a number of high-tech start-ups have been making impressive strides in the realm of online instruction. Granted, college isn’t just for training young people for the world of work.

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Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Yes, the infrastructure is cheap (to start), but the human costs have gone up dramatically. In sports, you always want to play and compete at the stage that is right for you. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget.

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Small Business Entrepreneur Non-Compete IP 125

Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

OpenAI is a for-profit, running a venture fund, etc — what types of ‘partnership risk’ is there in backing alternatives who are competing with OpenAI funded startups. AI ‘Middleware’ In a multi-base model world, won’t there be some value created by dynamically switching between models depending on the use case?

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Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete Generative AI IP 67

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Even A/B tests with well-conceived test concepts can lead to non-significant results and erroneous interpretations. The probability that the tests will compete with one another tends to be low here. If the assumption is wrong, there is a risk of long test runtimes and non-valid results. Why does this work?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

tells you how much adwords cost. questions and answers for non-programmers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. aggregation. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker. Traffic Research. Startup Threads. SlideShare.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The central team is responsible for analytics frameworks, centralized contracts (tools, consultants), for aggregated company level analysis, complex project execution (experimentation, media mix models etc) and for setting standards. To provide a hyper-fast non-nuanced summary… please invest in: 1. Focus on doing analysis.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Automatic importing of AdWords cost data into Urchin. Three Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail. Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. She is technically super competent (regex anyone?). AdSense now integrated into GA.

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Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. These questions still get asked.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). 7 Basic Plots on Wikipedia ). Change of statistics.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis. It does not show data for non-US visitors to your site.

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Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. In between you and the healthcare system, say you have your employer, right?

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43