The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. You could then distribute flyers asking potential customers to contact you about the service, and find out how many are interested.

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Web Silicon Valley Salary Demand 160

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. In this new model, the Horizon level of innovation is defined by whether the business model is being executed or searched for. Here’s how.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

It helps you understand how reliant the company/client is on Search (too much is actually not good). Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Search is always big for everyone. Find high bounce rates for one segment (Paid Search) and look at other segments (Display) where pages have low bounce rates.

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

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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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

At its early stage, however, the company decided to examine those applications where it can bring real value from the start, including inspections of complex industry machineries, inspections of difficult-to- maintain infrastructures, and also security or search and rescue applications. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy.

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Agile Technical Review Sales Cycle Distribution 54

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2018

Entering new markets can be a great way for your business to expand its portfolio and diversify its product offering. Identify Distribution Channels. In terms of actually reaching your customers with your message, you need to identify the channels and media they engage with most. Search engine optimization.

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Jacksonville Due Diligence Exit Strategy Marketing 189

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

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. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

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Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. How to Hack the Investment World. You can also follow Kedrosky on Twitter.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

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. Our project.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) Marketing: Which channels are they active on? Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven. Messaging: What language do they use?

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Probably too many to count; beverage giant Coca Cola has a portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages: diet, regular, sparkling, still, fruit juice, fruit drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, soy-based beverages, etc. Review their web site, social media presence and, of course do a Google search. And that’s one company!

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Offshore Social Media B2C United States 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. 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. A lot of the traffic comes from search.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

A quick search query will illustrate that that looks something like this…. Impressions can be used in real-time for decision-making by your display, video and search platforms (e.g., Some metrics apply across all channels, like Awareness, Consideration and Purchase Intent. via automation). No point in fooling yourself.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. Steve I have to tell you some bad news, I just showed our potential channel partners and customers a few completed pieces of the games we had. Tell them how great it’s going to be and see how many pre-orders we can get.” More on this in future posts.)

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Silicon Valley RSS Video San Diego 212

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2011

Founded less than two years ago by Internet entrepreneur and former model/actor Keith Britton and his partner actress Zoe Saldana , MyFDB allows users to freely browse credited magazine covers, editorials, and ad campaigns, as well as search credited people and company profiles. Who says technology isn’t fashionable?

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Database Distribution .Net Analytics 157

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. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

When it comes to identifying what has changed, Labay continues: I’d think the first stop is analytics—who dropped off, what channels, who remained, etc., echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. but polls and surveys are obvious choices, too.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

billion people (Facebook) or promise that 90% of all internet searches start with you (Google). 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). ” Boom – just like that – he pulled up their roots.

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Channel Portfolio Metrics Search 48

Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

The easiest way to understand whether or not you have found the right experts is to check their portfolio of work. They may also engage with large PR houses to get the distribution going. All these would become automatically more difficult when we compared Twitter to Facebook to LinkedIn to X other social platforms and channels.

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Marketing SEO Metrics Agile 100

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

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. I documented my struggle on my YouTube channel, which now garners over 70M views. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

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Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The product development model is so focused on building and shipping the product that it ignores the entire process of testing your basic hypothesis about your business model (customers, channel, pricing, etc.) customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) before you ship.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 241

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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Channel Analytics Framework Advertising 152

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Reid: It’s very entertaining that you are channeling a question from Dylan Field – Dylan is the founder of Figma, which is a Greylock investment, so Dylan and I talk to each other every so often and he is obviously a superstar entrepreneur. For example, Google was initially an enterprise search. You know, maybe I’m wrong.”

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. free, distributed source code control management system. Outlook plugin to search. Ad Promotion.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

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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Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. 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.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

It’s become a channel. Since some of my portfolio companies (@ crowdflower , @ twilio , @ dnanexus , @ highlightcam , and most recently @ cardmunch ) have been using Twitter more, I’ve been thinking about how startups should use their Twitter accounts. Twitter has become part of almost every startups marketing and engagement strategy.

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Startup Channel Audience Search 93

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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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

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 accomplish these goals: ~ Get an optimal understanding of what kind of people you ended up attracting to your website (look at primary purpose & distribution). Share of Search. I think we have established that.

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Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Secondly, I learned that you can't invest in a technology in search of a problem to solve.    You can either go on-deck through the carrier channel and their walled gardens or off-deck through the web where you will need to have an incredibly viral product or spend lots of money on marketing. 

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Mobile SMS Venture Capital Web 60

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. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

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. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

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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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. Except for your re-targeting / behavior targeting campaigns, you want your paid search, display, affiliate, and social efforts to bring new visitors to your franchise.

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Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151