ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM. That leads to hundreds of lists, no clear segmentation, and a database management nightmare.

Demand 132

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

The lower ACV also means the switching costs are low, churn is likely higher & the lifetime value of a customer is lower. As a company—there’s more room to have the infrastructure to support these sales & post sales activities because each customer pays a significant amount of money to help cover the overhead & cost of goods.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For example, a database query result set that is returned to a user. ” Though, as another way to look at it, Nate Weiss (CTO of Conductrics ) says that the ‘skipping IT’ benefit of client-side tools could have a cost for some companies. Test non-UI changes that still have an affect on your objective.

HTML 58

HTML Flash Mobile Web 58

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For example, a database query result set that is returned to a user. ” Though, as another way to look at it, Nate Weiss (CTO of Conductrics ) says that the ‘skipping IT’ benefit of client-side tools could have a cost for some companies. Test non-UI changes that still have an affect on your objective.

HTML 50

HTML Flash Mobile Web 50

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up. Key-based partitioning.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

Generative AI 88

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

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

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an extremely targeted approach (one-to-one rather than one-to-many), so it usually has a much higher customer acquisition cost (CAC). To execute effectively on your product marketing strategy , marketing and sales need to operate as one unit. Pipedrive’s add-ons cost an average of $35 per company, per month.

Marketing 100

Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital). in seed round in November.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I think you’d find yourself, you’re going to drop a lot of people when you instantly mention, ‘This costs money.’ You may not have that data in the database. And the big guys can’t do that, because they’d have to re-train people and anyway, they don’t operate that way, I can.’

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . Projects like ENS and Handshake aim to solve the first problem with their own databases tying a BTC or ETH address to a human legible name, something like a decentralized DNS. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs.

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Donanza – the freelancer jobs marketplace, operates like a “Kayak&# finding freelancers the best gigs across sources. GreenSQL – open source database firewall software. Do@ – vertical search inside applications, on your tablet. Onavo – reduce mobile data costs through compression.

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Vertical 79

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The system would choose the appropriate group for each situation (mobile device held vertically, wide screen TV, spoken aloud, user preference, whatever comes next). Blocks-to-groups would be a many-to-many database relationship. In years past, Web designers laid out pages according to monitors of the day.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. It’s been the industry’s go-to resource for 15 years, covering every imaginable nuance of call-center operations in a staggering level of detail.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. Lencioni’s books are famous fables for executives to reflect on team-building, culture and operational effectiveness, but this one is about family management and very inspiring.

Entrepreneur 332

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development 332

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Others are looking for baseline information on operational expenses (i.e. what is a “reasonable” cost for square foot of office space in SF). . Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers.

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Might be kinda large market.,

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

the world’s largest maker of proprietary database software, is acquiring Israeli startup Convergin, which makes software that lets telcos deliver services across multiple networks and platforms. For previous editions, click here. ORACLE IS BUYING ISRAELI SOFTWARE MAKER CONVERGIN FOR $85 MLN. Oracle Corp., DVTel, Inc.,

IP 68

IP Analytics Portfolio 68