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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Founding Date: 2004.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). My distribution above is a good starting point.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. On to top right of the graph you'll see three buttons, click on the one called Days before Conversion… I love this report because it helps me understand the distribution of purchase behavior much better. Take a break.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. Acquisition: CPA. You need to know, obsessively, what you get for it.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic. I’ll say that one more time. Poll question number one, we’ll have four of these today during the webinar. This is number one.