VC Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Twitch hack exposed in Oct 2021, in which the original source code was stolen and creator payment data was leaked showed the grim reality of this: 50% of revenue was made by the top 1% of streamers 75% of accounts that are making money made less than 120 dollars this year 896,261 accounts made no money at all Only 0.06% received over the U.S.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Investing in AI and algorithms that can predict traffic patterns for logistics companies and distributors leads to huge cost savings in both money and time. The cascading effect of this will fuel growth through increased sales. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2019

It helps them to allocate staff to attend customers, which further creates value in terms of revenue, profit, and customer experience. It is a subdomain of Machine Learning where the algorithm learns on itself by doing hundreds of iterations. are studied by Deep Learning algorithms through thousands of iterations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2018

One example of monetizing data can be seen in “customers also bought” items, which are most likely to cause an up-sale. With this type of creative analysis, you increase the odds of significantly improving sales. The good news is that you can do the same. Minimizing Risk And Retaining Customers. Improved Vision.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

What differentiates ignitAd’s ad optimization solution from others in the online advertising market is its Bid Optimization Management technology, which is based on a proprietary predictive analysis and advanced bidding algorithms. A branding campaign will look and act very differently from a campaign designed to generate sales.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

IgnitAd operates a self-service ad optimization solution for display advertising buyers, and has now publicly launched its Bid Optimization Management™, a predictive bidding technology that helps publishers increase their ad revenue by identifying the ad sources which will pay the most for each available ad unit.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In doing so, the holdout attempts to quantify “lift”—the increase in revenue compared to doing nothing. For example, a “10% off” coupon (delivered through a pop-up or email campaign) may generate 15% more sales than a current “$10 off a $100 purchase” coupon. To feed machine learning algorithms. The result? Image source ).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You might find that, on average, your CSAT score is lowest at the handoff point between sales and service. To give context, compare market share changes with objective measures such as changes in total industry spending and company revenue, and strategic changes. Bean had been experiencing a long period of zero revenue growth.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nilaye Thakrar: What is the best way to attribute an offline sale to an online assist? The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Inbound marketing increased the burden on marketing to resolve middle- and bottom-of-funnel concerns previously handled by sales departments. Leads in a demand generation strategy, we’re told, should actually generate sales. What is a lead if it doesn’t have a chance at becoming a sale?). But sales hates the “leads.”

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Gross Profit. $(60). Market Cap.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2015

sometimes called “smart content”) features along with some helpful SaaSs to automate the process that you can start adding to your sales funnel today: Segmented and Personalized Emails. 24% experienced better deliverability and greater revenue. With customers, go for the upsell and the recurring sale. Dynamic Images and Pricing.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. the number of purchases or revenue that will occur in the future. In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. million; Total revenue: $97.5 Or absolutely awful? Transcribe the interview (rev.com).

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