Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) The inevitable failures then damaged returns.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

To kickstart your career, set up a profile on popular freelance websites like Upwork and Freelancer and start building your portfolio. Web designer. If you’ve got an eye for design but no formal web design training, you can still break into the industry with a little informal education and a good portfolio.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM. 23 Inspiringly Beautiful Portfolio Designs – crowdspring.co/1mVP03W.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Barrington Coffee – Fort Point Channel.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

Product/regions/channels. How does the portfolio of all our activities – owned, earned, paid media, promotions etc. – work together, and how do the channels complement each other? We have the ability to model scenarios, budgets, channel allocations to maximize effectiveness and efficiency for our future campaigns.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 6, 2012

it got me thinking about the channels we use to publish our thoughts and to control our personal brands. On the one hand it makes total sense to choose a popular digital channel or two so that ‘we’ can leverage their audience. What if these channels just disappear? What if these channels just disappear?

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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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

But it turns out Google Analytics, just like SiteCatalyst, WebTrends, and other web analytics tools, already has plenty of pretty valuable deeply insightful stuff in it. But in case you want to win big rather than just win, I encourage to read the six tips outlined in this post: The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. Online calculators provide instant loan estimates, loan applications can be completed and submitted in a matter of minutes, and sophisticated web-based technology helps accelerate the credit decision process. Small Business Loan Overview.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While cloud based call center software does offer the ability for a caller to be engaged with a customer service agent over voice channels, many call center software solutions offer other options for customer interactions with your business as well.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. This is a great configuration for a starting team. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. It’s also the wrong answer.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Additionally, because WordPress is so popular, there are dozens of blogs and YouTube channels dedicated to getting the most out of the platform. Custom coding, though, requires a somewhat substantial understanding of web development. So Webflow is great for portfolios, agency websites, restaurants etc; sites with little functionality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). The best entrepreneurs focus on details.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

Not only are they amplifying the data behind why this is a smart business move, but also driving that forward with their portfolio. In Austin alone, the group has over 3K members, an active Slack channel and plenty of events. Connect with them: on their website and join the Austin channel.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? You Manage What you Measure.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

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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. The next stage is seed funding, and you should raise $500k-$1.5m

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. Some metrics apply across all channels, like Awareness, Consideration and Purchase Intent. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. The data used comes not from your Google Analytics account/script, rather the data comes from the third-party DoubleClick cookie (for web traffic) and from anonymous identifiers for mobile apps (i.e., Most of us use just a small amount of power our tools contain.

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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. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Intellipedia helped show the way for many other “Web 2.0” Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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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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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. The Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google Analytics contains the Top Conversion Paths report. Here's an example.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2011

A pro subscription version allows fashion professionals to control their own profiles and create a dynamic online professional portfolio, as well as connect with other industry professionals – The Wall Street Journal even called the site “a fashion industry LinkedIn”.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. Weekend Gaming: "Vanquish" and "Killz.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Web loading concerns. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Also note that often, organic traffic is one of the highest converting channels. It’s not as common as it used to be, but people use to worry a lot about A/B testing ruining rankings.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

com) that let you find almost any song available on the web in MP3 format. Given Daniel’s expertise in search and information retrieval (blog: The Noisy Channel ), when Diego and I started discussing IndexTank, I introduced him to Daniel. Since the sites serving up MP3s were very transient (you can take an educated guess as to why!)

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

com) that let you find almost any song available on the web in MP3 format. Given Daniel’s expertise in search and information retrieval (blog: The Noisy Channel ), when Diego and I started discussing IndexTank, I introduced him to Daniel. Since the sites serving up MP3s were very transient (you can take an educated guess as to why!)

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Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 90

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a plethora of digital media channels at our disposal and new ones on the way every day(!), How do you figure out which channels to invest in more and which to kill? Oh, and the killer question… if you invest in multiple channels, how much incrementality does each channel bring to your bottom-line?

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. They both got very excited about the idea,” says Coats, who says he also studied the work of Harry Markowitz, a pioneer in portfolio theory (now a professor of finance at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management). FDA Clears New Genentech Breast Cancer Drug, in Combo With Herceptin. Health IT ›.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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