Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2011

LumaPartners , a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Dubbed LUMAscapes, each infographic provides a breakdown of the players in the vertical, by category.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 3) OnePagers.io.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. In the case of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, the root activity on the site is the sharing of content.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Tickets for the mini-show case event on July 6th are limited.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 6) Negotiate deal.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coined by Jason Goldberg over at Razorfish , the mobile gap is the time between consuming media on mobile devices (which is relatively high) and the amount of time, effort, and money brands spend working on and optimizing mobile (which is relatively low). Aggregate Audience Data. The Mobile Gap & The Problems It Causes.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed. Just adding a website to now offer books for sale will not suddenly make an offline bookstore a serious competitor to Amazon.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some of these companies do share their aggregate findings, but never their raw data. In these cases, data is standardized to the SaaS’ requirements, but remains silo’ed within an organization. 3: Publicly available financial.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The Massive Market Opportunity For Spectacles Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told the media : “I regard [augmented reality] as a big idea like the smartphone.

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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. On the one hand, it’s fun on social media and games; the uses in media, retail and entertainment are endless! This year we aim to serve 50,000 new customers and launch with five new brands.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8 The number of companies funded has also declined by 6%.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

“ Commercial Intent almost never exists on Social Media.” Every day my Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of discussions about music, fashion, electronics, travel and other highly valuable verticals. ” What a crock. What could they be doing?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

CrowdFunnel offers a unique form of marketing and media buying for crowdfunding platforms, issuers and agencies. We believe that traditional media buying – display and banner ads, PR, social media, search keywords, etc. – are all necessary components of a complete marketing strategy. What types of companies perform best?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Indeed, DailyMotion viewers have expressed frustration at the overload of ads: DailyMotion is another distribution option for media companies seeking to monetize content, especially if they’re located in one of the platform’s top countries. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. Adapt video sizes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Community was about things we didn’t have as much familiarity with, i.e., social media, game mechanics, community building, etc.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Bill Gurley : Great.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Content which bears social proof (including e.g. visual elements suggesting endorsement by news media, tastemakers, or one’s peer group) will, in A/B tests, often ROFLstomp absolutely equivalent content lacking social proof. Why Your View that Email Is a Bad Marketing Tool Is Wrong | Social Gratitude - Social Media Management -.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 11, 2007

By guaranteeing that all sites in their network are about a single topic, they can aggregate a critical mass in traffic while still enjoying endemic site RPMs. Its one reason I like the vertical ad business of Adify so much - it attempts to place itself out of the domain specificity business and just provide the relevant platform and tools.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. When looking closely at the verticals above, they found that two forces were at play—instant gratification and customization.

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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Create content to answer hundreds of these questions, and, in aggregate, you can reach a huge audience of relevant prospects. For example, Jason Lemkin—the founder of a successful SaaS company, and now an investor— has racked up 42.6

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Social media continues to be ROI positive on the long run if you are willing to invest in conversational marketing. but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level. The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. They should, right?

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