David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. A Google search for your business name may place you in page 3 with alternative or similar suggestions in pages 1 and 2. Source: Pixabay. Also a few syllables is generally better than a lot.

Naming 70

Naming eCommerce Startup Database 70

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2014

It’s too bad, because the open & click rates across nearly every vertical are also significantly higher. For B2C eCommerce businesses, the user usually comes with some purchase intent, so it doesn’t always make sense to use such tactics to capture emails. Yet surprisingly, 70% of brands do not personalize. image source.

eCommerce 112

eCommerce Sales Marketing Software Review 112

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110