View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. But while that particular model has seen success, it certainly won’t be the only way that companies will be able to create greater personalization and serendipitous discovery for their customers. Owning High Shares of Customer’s Wallet. Reinventing Retail.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Here’s how Nextiny ’s channel appears on their website: Users can customize the look of a channel (e.g. DailyMotion reports 300 million active users; they watch more than 3.5 billion videos per month. views per person).

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

While other industries often speak of being “customer centric” or “putting the customer first,” the U.S. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. One could go even farther, and suggest that the U.S.

Customer 59

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). The United Nations predicts that by 2050 our planet will be populated by 9 billion people, which makes food supply a fundamental issue. Today, with about 7.2 Work is love made visible.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. They’d built a range of products that completely solved the problem—but they couldn’t reach their potential customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Last week the teams tested their hypotheses about Customer Relationships (how do they get, keep and grow customers.) its product or service) to its customers. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Week 6 of the class. The Nine Teams Present. All that we expected.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

As mentioned in previously Spotlights, my goals are: Working with and investing in stellar teams delivering true vision with compelling products to paying customers for MEANINGFUL results. BlazingDB’s customers-to-date came knocking after experiencing failure with leading Data Warehouses such as Amazon’s Redshift and others.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. Other writers and bloggers can help distribute information. This helps clear the business name and thus maintain its customer base. Online Image. Final Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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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? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I'll close with a custom attribution model into which you can insert all your biases – sorry, I mean expertise – and get something better than good to make incremental progress from where you are today. Customized/Personalized Attribution Model. Last AdWords Click Attribution Model. Linear Attribution Model.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Pretty much with all products or services, it’s harder to sell your own product or service to new customers than selling someone else’s product or service. Wouldn’t it be better for the webshop to acquire those customers themselves to maximize profit margins? Customers don’t need to actually visit one of your offline stores.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing. Underwriting.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free.

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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. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. . RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Every business is solving a problem for its customers and filling a need in the market. Who is your ideal customer? If you can show that your potential customers are already interested in—or perhaps already buying—your product or service, this is great to highlight. Describe the problem you are solving in the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If you segment your A/B test results by browser version, you might discover that customers coming from the Safari web browser are converting much better than the average. A second segment we typically setup might include: existing customers vs. first-time customers. Why is conducting post-test segmentation important?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. You create and aggregate videos. That’s your job.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. What makes these ventures interesting to me is how focused they are on their particular audiences of either potential users or customers. Two events this week in St. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. Discuss.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). ” YouTube takes 45%.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me if I said that even leveraging cool features like custom reporting and smart advanced segments might be insufficient in some cases? This is a very simple analysis of the tussle between what you are providing vs. what the customers actually want. And what do happier customers deliver? I understand.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As described by Tim Ferriss in Tools of Titans , to be a successful creator you don’t need millions of dollars, customers, or fans. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. 1000 Superfans or 100 True fans? Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

A few companies implemented advice in there to positive effect, and one actually let me write about it, so here we go: Aligning Price With Customer Value. This is very complicated and does not align pricing with customer success. Pricing Scaling Linearly When Customer Value Scales Exponentially Is A Poor Decision.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

If your consulting service firm’s customers are happy and performance is good, then it shouldn’t be important if each consultant on the team spends their whole day working from bed if that’s what they prefer. The catch is if those standards are introduced, there won’t be a team to manage anyway. What this instead requires is a mindset shift.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services. After all, without customers, there is no revenue. How many customers are in the market? Can these customers pay for your products or services?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator. Related Posts: Content As an Essential Strategy Installing a Selling System 3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You 5 Ways to Get Rockin Reviews Content is a verb, content is a strategy?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Because A/B testing considers only a part of the entire customer base (your sample), there are always uncertainties as to actual effects. The goal of the test, however, is to carry-over the effect measured by the test onto the entire customer base. Are customers using the new navigation exactly like the old one?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Massive, cloud-based repositories of customer interactions, often called data lakes, are the raw source material for predictive analytics applications. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. customer churn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Organic landing pages report. " : ).

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