VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

They already distribute over $100M a month amongst their 200,000+ creators. Digital collectibles and NFTs exploded (and then calmed down) as a way for creators to monetise digital collectibles and art Social commerce – creators can monetise fandom by driving ecommerce purchases or selling their own merchandise via the social platforms.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

Wayfair and Houzz are changing the way consumers find and shop for furnishings, but ecommerce is underpenetrated in this category, and the promise of VR and AR to create a step-function change here is still a little ways away. But it’s coming.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. To understand the trends, follow the money. Creative Automation.

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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. We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. eCommerce is hot again! We shared our disappointment at Blackberry even though we’re both faithful users. AppDynamics.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the last 15 years, the cost of production has gone down, distribution has gone mainstream. I’ve hired and built great teams. Now is an amazing time in human history.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. That is why you need Enhanced Ecommerce.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g. DIY Drones.

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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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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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). For example if I were in-charge of campaigns for OfficeMax , I would measure ecommerce conversions but that's just a sideshow for these types of campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Having been a journalist myself, I’ve experienced first hand the pains of sending lists of links or PDF files to editors – or, to anyone interested in my writing portfolio. After a few years and massive learning in the ecommerce area, I was ready to step up and run a business of my own. Photo Credit: Yulia Nikonova.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Money Making & eCommerce Solutions GoodBarry – An integrated system that runs your website, email marketing and online store that also automatically grows your customer database. Weefolio – A free online portfolio creator.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

As you improve the user experience, information architecture and relevancy of content on your site, it is important to keep an eye not on the rather useless metric of Average Page Views per Visit or Average Time on Site but rather on the distribution of page depth. Days to Conversion is in the Ecommerce section of your web analytics reports.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We can see ecommerce/marketing has been boosted by COVID and security is in second place, with cyber criminality not slowing down. As you can see, both the data and security categories are booming, and we welcome the addition of payments and banking infrastructure fueled by the expansion of a new generation of financial services.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." When you review the portfolio of segments being used by your Squirrels, ensure that they have Acquisition, Behavior AND Outcome segments. You can create a DMMM for a non-ecommerce (with goals and goal value!) No running around.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Ecommerce/lead gen type websites are typically incessantly focused on one-night stands. " Bonuses have been distributed. An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. It forces a focus on the long term and on the right entity (the customer and not the advertiser).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Ron Tite: So one of the things that REI did was they closed their store and all eCommerce channels on Black Friday. Ron Tite: I think that what it is, is it gives them the opportunity to diversify their portfolio in a way that still reinforces their brand belief. He takes decisions that reinforces that belief specifically.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. VC Portfolios. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Pivotal Tracker â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Mercurial â?? Preceden â?? Due Diligence. Dune Networks.

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