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MARCH 1, 2024

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now it looks like mobile is eating the web. For example, as of January 2013 Facebook has more mobile users than web users – as more and more people are checking their Facebook updates on their mobile device and skipping the desktop version entirely. Many still think that mobile is simply an extension of the Web.

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Mobile Web SEO Distribution 161

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Attaining that level of attribution—the key to improving outcome measurement—breaks down in a couple of spots: Web analytics. The amount of data you pass from your web analytics tool(s) to your CRM is a major fault line. Create and distribute content to those segments. Months or years of uncoordinated efforts erode data quality.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132