View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. 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

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Or we could not.)

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. . – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity.

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Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Now scroll just a bit back up, stare at that column, what would your strategy be for Organic Search if it is at 0.46? Another tip. Take a break.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The Search Based Keyword Tool (SbKT) was that for me. I can tell you know that you'll never think of Paid Search the same way! UPDATE: Recently Google has folded the Search Based Keyword Tool into the core AdWords Interface. One of the most common phenomenon is the long tail of search. Astonishing is that not?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

It is a bit silly to believe you can use one tool for purpose x (say search analysis) and another for purpose y (say everything else). Do a Google search for the Consultant. Never bother to search for their company and look at the paid and organic results (to find broken things). Oh and don't forget rule #1 above.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Correlation’s system assesses the risk of each prospective deal by searching for the variables that correlate with the details of successful venture investments in its database. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. 1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. When you search for a brand or a category term, most companies, small or big, want to show up number one in the search results. The main reason, as all decent SEOs will tell you, is that search results are no longer standardized.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

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. Â Search for apps tools. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. software.

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. All data in aggregate is crap.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You will never obsess about the cost per trade of your E-Trade portfolio, right? Focus on Economic Value from your search advertising. Focus on Profit from your search advertising. And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! In this case: Search Opportunity. Focus on the outcome.

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Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Bonus: For later reading, when you are attempting to be an analysis.ninja , see this post: Excellent Analytics Tip #25: Decrapify Search, Social Compound Metrics ]. The whole thing is so painful. Likes are also present at a post-level.

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

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. Idea #1: Segment out your Brand Search Keywords. Search has a very very long tail. Why Segmentation? Branding baby!

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Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

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. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. Sagarmatha’s core technology is a sophisticated, proprietary data mining engine. The company’s Netrac product portfolio delivers an automated, proactive and customer-centric approach to Service Assurance, spanning fault, performance, and service management.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

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. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Company: Home Portfolio. It’s free.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

In that context, Real-Time reports are an impressive feat of engineering by the team at Google. Search Queries: Get Your Organic Keyword Data Back! They cover mobile, search, technical elements, internal site search, engagement, content analysis and more. You can see what's happening right now. But, wait!

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Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. David Skok Great feedback and suggestions.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55