A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

On the other hand, while the small company loses 9 months to the loss of a key employee, or even implodes, the big company is the steady turtle that adds thousands of customer per month like clockwork and wins the race. A new feature that helps you land just a few new customers this month is worth doing. Predictability.

Government 223

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Young companies are quick, nimble, tech-smart and offer highly customized solutions- advantages that a huge century-old bank with established incentive alignment and organizational structure cannot hope to accomplish. It is estimated that $12 billion was distributed through loans by marketplace lenders in the US.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. Customers value and benefit from the convenience, price, and selection of Amazon, which is why the company is, by a wide margin, America’s largest bookseller.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

And, Alistair carefully breaks down cohort analysis, a method of grouping users according to a shared criterion (all the users who joined in a given month, for instance, or during a particular campaign), and then demonstrates how you can test with those cohorts to yield actionable information. But they''re all lagging indicators.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Let’s say the customer is based in “Australia’ the transaction will be recorded as sale with say ‘Singapore’. Governments are sovereign and can make whatever decision they want in their market regardless of international trade rule. The Government can call it whatever they want, but here’s a suggestion. Corporate bribery.

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Intellectual Property Australia Singapore Government 48

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In the traditional approach, native app updates are distributed via an application store, and the user is informed that an update is available, although they are not required to install the latest update. This further ensures that you tightly control the API that governs which portions of native functionality may be accessed by the Web view.

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Software Review HTML Web Mobile 94

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Couple this with technologies that are incompatible with each other, “Experts” who preach analytics without wide practical experience, analysts who are learning on the job, a lack of data standards or governance & vendors who don’t don’t take the time to understand how you use their tools, and it all becomes a real mess. What to do?

Analytics 113

Analytics Software Review Metadata Campaign 113

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI. If your dashboards are CDPs (customized data pukes) do this every three months. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Andrew Payne

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren announcing the idea as part of her campaign platform. I’m a long-time and very happy Amazon & Apple customer and have watched them continually out-innovate competitors (including many that can’t seem to get out of their own way). I have very mixed feelings about this.

Government 59

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Simply because you are going to bump into privacy and government regulations. This is problem for governments, privacy regulators and the public to solve. I believe that attribution modeling is not the path to the smartest decisions for multi-touch multi-visit digital campaigns. So accept what you can do.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

If you don’t know your customer well, 99% of your assumptions are wrong. So how to target a customer in this world? Things change: Customer state changes. Understand your customer and the existing experience to design for improvement of people’s lives. Customer State. Are we optimizing the right thing?

Analytics 85

Analytics Sweden Metrics Estonia 85

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2014

But don’t stop there – look at other sources of funding such as business angels, crowd funding, asset finance, local authority grants and government schemes such as Funding for Lending. Place – how are you going to distribute your offering? Hopefully any loan application to your bank will be successful.

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Small Business Distribution Forecast Advertising 251

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Using cryptography, a distributed blockchain informs all participants that an asset has changed ownership. It could develop central registries of beneficial ownership information to stop secretly operated companies from peddling influence or steering government investments. Another application is automated advertising campaigns.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Security Advertising Campaign 52

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At a previous employer customer service on the phone was a huge part of the operation. Qualitative surveys were giving the company a read that customers were unhappy with the service being provided. But, pretty quickly customers with painful problems became a personally painful problem for an individual customer service rep.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

there is a new mobile app to track or a new digital experience to problem-solve or a crazy online to offline campaign that upends everything unleashes a new layer of tactical activity. You got me, I am ignoring all the data layer and custom stuff! If you are a government analytics team, you are wasting time. All that is great.

Analytics 60

Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Customer Center. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Technology.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

While I'm using the term Store here, it encompasses sales (or leads or catalog requests) driven to a retail store or company call center, people driven to donate blood via online campaigns, or essentially any offline outcome driven by the online channel. Two helpful blog posts on multi-channel analytics: 1. are happening as a result.

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Channel Analytics Framework Search 152

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

The Whole Enchilada For those of you interested in more than The Skinny, keep reading… Countless conversations have been had with key users, customers, advisors, mentors, family and friends. and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several What did our customers think?

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 21, 2022

Marketing is all about communicating with the right customer. This can result in underwhelming campaigns and squandered funds. ESB aids in task distribution among connected components and serves as a middleware between an application-based suite and a framework. Data integration can help with organization.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cloud Early Stage Finance 52

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Back to Top « Customer Service.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics. In fact, 15% of them are outsourcing design and development of their SM campaigns, 11% using outside capacity to create content and 10% are outsourcing their social media analytics. It’s about time!

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Small Business Securities and Exchange Commission Social Media Startup 92

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers. The right people are potential customers – ask them if they have the problem. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. You kind of want to do both at the same time.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

The next generation takes the baton from their patriarch’s achievements and learn how to do better distribution, how to win over large customers, how to scale manufacturing, how to develop a niche market and be known as best-in-class in that niche. But then the world changes. It globalizes. They struggle to maintain cost advantages.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But customer paths are non-linear and pretty complicated— sooo many things influence conversions. . Most businesses have a lot of data about customer behavior: the devices they use to purchase, ads, competitors’ pricing, keywords, etc. You need to prove that your online marketing campaigns drive offline revenue. Pure offline.

Analytics 85

Analytics Cloud Advertising Metrics 85

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And then small businesses start to use it. Marc Andreessen: Versus trickle-down.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Copyright Act, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. The copyright owner has the right to distribution. Most countries are signatories to various international treaties and agreements governing copyright protection, such as the Berne Convention.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Copyright Act, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. The copyright owner has the right to distribution. Most countries are signatories to various international treaties and agreements governing copyright protection, such as the Berne Convention.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Copyright Act, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. The copyright owner has the right to distribution. Most countries are signatories to various international treaties and agreements governing copyright protection, such as the Berne Convention.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% Advertising distribution company DG FastChannel Inc. MediaMind president and CEO Gal Trifon noted that the acquisition by DG would provide the Israeli company with the added scale and resources to continue to grow its platform and enhance the services it provides its customers.

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Examples: how a market will evolve, what competitors are investing in, whether new marketing campaigns will be successful, or how an important new hire will perform. This appears in statements like “We’re getting killed in the market for not having F” or “I’m sick of customers complaining — rightly!

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Differentiation Framework Restful Software Review 120

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. As the third U.S.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In decentralized (or “embedded”) teams, optimization responsibilities are distributed amongst employees under many different umbrellas within the organization, rather than one department. I’ve seen conversion teams organized by ‘outcome;’ a team optimizing for new customer acquisition, another for new product adoptions, etc.

Chad 90

Chad Analytics Technical Review Framework 90

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.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

12: Almost all reporting is off custom reports. #11: 12: Almost all reporting is off custom reports. Force your analytics team to create custom reports. Creating custom reports is hard work. There in a nutshell are the four requirements of a complete custom report.). Or, which pool of customers is most profitable.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

You can easily imagine how you want someone to explore that data by traffic sources or campaigns or geo or myriad valuable dimensions. Hence, the amazing value of Surveys , Usability Studies (on or offline), Heuristic Evaluations , shadowing Customer Service calls, and more. That’s what you are seeing in the distribution above.

Analytics 124

Analytics United States Audience Cyprus 124