View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

Many second-time founders take a more deliberate, academic approach to searching for a problem. A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. 2: Fleeing from the familiar.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the web matured and scaled, two new and more web-native paradigms emerged: search and social. are products that aggregate data. One example is our portfolio company Defined that is aggregating data on tokens across different exchanges and blockchains. . The initial discovery layer of the Web 1.0 such as BitClout.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. In an environment that includes over a thousand medical journals with content that is increasingly complex and fragmented, physicians have grown tired of searching for relevant news.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? You Manage What you Measure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

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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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. While the best option in this scenario is advanced filtering and faceted search, recommendations can provide value in these cases as well.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

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Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 48

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

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. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

But again, the aggregate numbers are being driven by just a few of the largest macrobrew firms. Take just the two largest funds raised from this past quarter: both firms raised this most recent fund more quickly after their last one than the time-period of the previous fund cycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Portfolio. (3). In search of Europe's next tech stars. McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1).

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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. Portfolio. (3).

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

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Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

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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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Performance.

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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. Where will people watch?

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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. Where will people watch?

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

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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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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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Share of Search. One great way to do this is to measure Share of Search. I think we have established that. What was it after?

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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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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Search Queries: Get Your Organic Keyword Data Back! Clicking on any one of the channels above, will lead you to a lovely drilldown report that shows detailed performance for that channel… The above report proves my statement, all data in aggregate is crap ! For example, custom reports for search engine optimization.

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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

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). Is email a key part of your marketing portfolio? Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. Okay it’s your turn now.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Once a site is successful in gaining users for their free portfolio tool, you end up having solved your initial supply challenge. Find aggregators. See: Gigwalk.

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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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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis. Intermediaries.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

They have still not embraced the strategy for optimizing for marketing portfolios and still obsess about optimizing silos (they learned this from their TV, Print etc. What would be the future of Adwords marketers with not provided searched query ? If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. strategies). You're welcome.

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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? 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

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In January of 2015, Uber partnered with Alan Krueger , a professor at Princeton University, to conduct the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the panel displayed, select or search for the first data source you want to compare. We discovered that news and press activity had a huge impact on people searching for Wimbledon. The second way to blend data is a little more involved but gives you more control. Click “Resource > Manage blended data.” Click “Add a data view.”

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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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