Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And when to spend time deciding or not, especially when not all decisions are equal and some may seem bigger and more impactful — whether it’s investing in life decisions, like getting married, or business decisions, such as what product to invest in, or what strategy to pursue, or what market or what investment. That’s what a market is.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Online marketing has revolutionized consumer marketing by providing a clear return on each dollar spent and making the marketer accountable for results. Online marketing changed it. Want to be the best marketer on earth? Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 Watch this!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The full survey results are available exclusively to respondents of the survey.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As they ask management what happened, a common answer will be that the market was really tough, and deals just didn’t close the way that they hoped. They also don’t have a great plan for what they are going to do differently next quarter, other than hope that the market improves, and that more deals will close. The question is why?

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate. By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. MCA-AMS covers the challenge of attributing accurate impact of our marketing and advertising efforts across multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile, TV). From a Venn -diagram.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

At ZQI U, a vast number of students enroll into online-only courses (just like our analytics, PPC, mobile, and SEO Master Certification students at my awesome Market Motive ). Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

In that context, Real-Time reports are an impressive feat of engineering by the team at Google. Affinity & In-Market Segments: Understand Your People Better. Assisted Conversions: Smarter Marketing Impact Attribution. Affinity & In-Market Segments: Understand Your People Better.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today. Rinse and repeat.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Try it when you are in the Store demo account.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Now, we have the problem of lack of coordination of those people who are all bidding against each other on the same gray market in China. SA : I think we've seen a handful of companies now tell their engineers that if you want to take paid time off to go work on a software project related to COVID. ER : That makes a lot of sense.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

In case of WebTrends replace those terms with Marketing Intelligence / Visitor Data Mart etc. Yet case studies in some sense reduced risk, even if they were simply over blown marketing fluff written by the vendor. Marketing strategies (from forums to display to search to social to mobile to…). our measurement strategies 2.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. didn’t care/focus enough about discovering how to market eventvue. It’s free.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You will never obsess about the cost per trade of your E-Trade portfolio, right? If you are a student of the Market Motive web analytics master certification course , you'll note my love for segmented trends rather than snapshots in time when it comes to data presentation. Yes, cost per click is metric. Thank you.

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Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

TEVA INCREASES WORLD MARKET SHARE IN RATIOPHARM PURCHASE. Through the acquisition of Ratiopharm, which is the second-largest player in the German generics market, Europe’s biggest, Israel’s Teva becomes number one in Europe as its presence in Spain, Italy and France is also boosted. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.,

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. GoToBilling – An online app that manages invoices and payments, marketing, customer relationship management and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. You think understanding Keywords without drilling down to each search engine will be awesome. Most search portfolios (Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization) have a unhealthy obsessions with our brand terms.

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Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

The problem is that it does not provide any incentive to the marketing team to ensure the rest of the experience for the user is great. So the marketer is now incentivized to get lots of the right people to the site (better more relevant ads!) How do we get them to care and not just dump people on your site (mobile or desktop)?

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

This is the prime reason I tell Analysts, Marketers, CEO's, my children not to just obsess about the head!]. The first source of the data are the logs that store the queries that are done by users on google.com (logs that have this data in aggregate, not by individual histories – you'll see the latter is not necessary).

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Search PPC Matching Analytics 103

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: 4: The Analytics/Marketing skills in your Analysis Ninjas is 70/30. #3. The organization functions off a clearly defined Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. #1. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Might be kinda large market., It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. The solution is applicable both for postpaid & prepaid market segments. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Ceedo Technologies.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

It turns out that Marketers, especially Digital Marketers, make really silly mistakes when it comes to data. In the last couple months I've spent a lot of time with senior level marketers on three different continents. Marketer, is not spent with data you''ll fail to achieve professional success.]. Small data.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Today many e-commerce and subscription companies are growing very quickly through smart marketing. As I’ve mentioned above, I think the exchanges will continue to make it easier for direct marketers to reach their customers.

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Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Promotions/Marketing. Part 1- Intro.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

The growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education.” –the Global Impact Investing Network.

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