Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. Conversions > Multi-Channel Funnels > Assisted Conversions. If email assists, can we understand its order in the conversion process and which channel it most assists?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Multi-Channel Attribution Analysis. ~ Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. Grab a Red Bull.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product. before you ship.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Google Page Rank: Sergey & Larry said; ‘Yo, businesses out there, we are different to Yahoo and other searches engines (there used to be many). Just this week Australian TV news channels joined up with the Facebook platform to get their news to a wider audience. Get on board. So, do I practice what I preach?

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. They had reduced the friction to connect by making anyone literally one click away — one click and you open a voice channel to them.They can hear you, but you can’t hear them until they unmute yourself.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. The use of UTM parameters, call tracking, or Multi-Channel Funnel reports add detail and nuance to attribution.

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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. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to distributed teams. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. Slack, Zoom). Slack, Zoom).

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

And to engage effectively with them, we need to reach them through all those various channels. The market is crowded, but Stathis has a critical mass of traffic and transactions, as well as a large portfolio of car rental companies providing data to make the service viable. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

Multi-Channel Attribution is a red hot topic in our industry, and yet it is so poorly understood. Roll up your sleeves, put a smile on your face, grab a pinch of common sense, a heavy dose of reality and let's go… Three Types of Multi-Channel Attribution Problems. Multi-Channel Attribution. In case you were curious.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. Hardware is different.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua I've covered this topic in detail in this blog post: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. I explain three different models (Online to Store, Across Multiple Devices, Across Digital Channels) and for each I've highlighted: 1. What's possible to measure. Rinse and repeat.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

To illustrate this, in the space I had available on the slide I was projecting, I shared some sense of effort/skills/time that might be required to take one step up… You can see that the initial elements are pretty small, then things get complicated, but it is not an even distribution. It is hard to optimize for the entire portfolio.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Hence, start by looking at the Assisted Conversions report (Conversions > Multi-Channel Funnels)… Then metric you want to get your company used to first, to get them ready for savvier attribution anything, is the metric Assisted Conversions. The more this value exceeds 1, the more this channel functioned in an assist role.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Besides being “busy doing great deals and distributing cash to your LPs”, what are they’re actually doing to make that happen? For her, it was launching new classes and teaching those at Stanford in the School of Engineering. Pick a sector, geo, or channel early--before others get to it.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. Sony Classics bought the rights to distribute the film internationally. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos. The First Taste Engine.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. OpenMarket provides a set of payment, messaging and emerging services that allow businesses to expand their marketing initiatives by leveraging the mobile channel.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

I wonder what the distribution looks like? By channel] Conversions - Assisted Conversions. Essentially, how often did that channel help with a future conversion? Now you have excellent context for making smarter decisions about the full-value of each acquisition channel in your portfolio. Are there some outliers?

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Some venture capital firms will have narrow criteria for the types of companies that they invest in while other will adopt a more broad portfolio and invest across many sectors. Unfortunately, this usually isn’t enough to get them opening their pocket books. Credible Financial Projections.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 8, 2013

With the work I did on plans and pricing, later enhanced and executed by other teams in the company, we were able to position to the market a consolidated portfolio of services that could be sold to SMB, mid-market, and large enterprise companies all off the same product platform. Right up my alley. This is where I cut to Ping.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. of Search Traffic: This measures the percentage of traffic you receive from search engines, in context of all other traffic sources. This one is more subtle.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Perfecto Mobile [profitable and well funded].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? free, distributed source code control management system. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? But thatâ??s

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