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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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. In the traditional marketing parlance, Google directed web traffic represents bottom-of-the-funnel users who are ready to take an action now. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ? trade secret).

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. Aggregated search engine level analysis. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) What Do VC’s Do? However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level.

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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? I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). All three challenges are important.

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