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.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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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. Shopping Cart Values / Revenue Per Visitor. In this case, measure the revenue after return or the return rate.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 110

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ).

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

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.

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Balance Sheet Jordan Non-Compete Aggregator 48

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

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

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.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

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

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. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

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

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