ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. I was impressed with his knowledge and thinking after every presentation.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice. Discuss.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Contact Management: The Beginning.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. Misty Denson from Portland, Oregon, presented NameYourRentNow.com. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Their engineers hated us. The customers didn’t act particularly excited about the product and how brilliantly I presented it.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. And the more of them your website has, the higher it will rank in search engines, giving you more traffic. For your advertising spend, you’re getting paid benefits and a boost to your search engine marketing campaigns.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. But to get video to fit and playback on the computers of the era, they needed to compress it.

Video 164

Video Silicon Valley RSS California 164

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

Next Julie Acevedo presented Juju Band , a newborn navel protection band to cover the umbilical cord for about eight weeks from birth. Yosh presented Ancient Tomorrow , a concept for a TV show drawing upon ancient wisdom to unearth alternative energy innovations used by ancient cultures. Ancient Tomorrow. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

This technology helps brands have a glimpse into their consumer lives – even though the brand is not mentioned explicitly in their social media posts, but is only present in the photos they publish. It is an excellent way for marketers to learn more about product consumption situations, and uncover valuable consumer insights.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 122

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The balance of the connectors partners with Data Studio, allowing you to draw data from social media, search engines, CRMs , and other external, non-Google-related channels. Time, such as days of the week, is displayed on the horizontal axis, while the measurement, for example, the number of site visitors, is on the vertical axis.

Sales 137

Sales Metrics Customer Analytics 137

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Check the list of presenters and companies running booths at your industry’s conferences; Ask your customers who else they considered. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. Still, you should still conduct this step to see if there are any new players or if anything has changed with the old ones.

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Check the list of presenters and companies running booths at the latest industry conference. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. Though that shouldn’t stop you from conducting this step to see if there are new players or if anything has changed with the old ones. Competitive Usability Investigation.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

OfferUp and Craigslist presents a great example here. 3) Niche Managed Marketplaces – Within many verticals, there are opportunities to significantly improve customer experience. Turns out to be a challenging logistical problem that a vertical marketplace could solve very well. Let’s take a look at GOAT.

Vertical 60

Vertical B2B Early Stage Mobile 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

Silicon Valley 171

Silicon Valley Stealth RSS California 171

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

Silicon Valley 131

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 131

ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

India 115

India Vertical Entrepreneur Connecticut 115

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

All the building blocks of effective search engine optimization (SEO). There is no mystery about how search engines work. They matter to your customers, who are seeking out information, and they matter to search engines, which try to identify the best information to present to users.

eCommerce 103

eCommerce SEO Search Engineer 103

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. My rule was no magazine could review our boards without us present. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours. None of this was an accident.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 124

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Two major publications on the launch of our platform: DreamIt Ventures’ Slidebeam Hopes to Be Instagram for Presentations. The outcome of this? Search ads are expensive, however.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. Engine instruments were added to measure the health of the aircraft engines – fuel and oil quantity, pressure, and temperature and engine speed.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 292

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

“Typography is the detail and the presentation of a story. In an analysis of all of the most linked content on Moz.com , Inbound engineer Casey Henry found that the content with the most links also seemed to have a higher word count. Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. image source.

Conversion 133

Conversion Georgia Technical Review Design 133

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

They saw a need for an easy-to-understand decision-making tool that could enable all major players involved in building design (architects, engineers, contractors and real estate developers) to see and compare options for cost and energy savings. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

Atlanta 64

Atlanta South America San Francisco Artificial Inteligence 64

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. First, they have to be publicly accessible for users and search engines. Those features are helping sites ranking for thousands, even millions, of keywords.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. This time in Austin presents a unique opportunity for investors.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example). To influence the first, lead generation efforts have to present a compelling offer. SEO should lead with intent.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

As a founder who developed into a CEO, I know that there is no manual and it is a nearly vertical learning curve. Always let entrepreneurs know where they stand— When you work around the clock working to build the company of your dreams and you present them to a venture capital firm, you deserve a clear response.

Partner 78

Partner Technical Review Venture Capital Cofounder 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. At my previous company, we presented at SXSW Pitch six years ago and the visibility we received was incomparable. CEO Higinio O.

Open Source 48

Open Source Startup Caching Database 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2012

Start uploading and describing images, slide presentations and videos. Find and signup for an email service provider (ESP) – I can recommend Infusionsoft, MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber and Vertical Response as I’ve used each. Add plugins to your blog and web pages that makes all of your content sharable in social networks.

Software Review 74

Software Review Social Network Social Media Analytics 74

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

Customer Development 215

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 215

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. Since SimilarWeb has international data, you can run these reports for any country and for extremely specific or broad industries and sub-verticals. You can still learn from both. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Nine Teams Present. The first team to present was D.C. They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? We offered that the team might want to expand their user research to think about new features and verticals (document management, law firms, lab managers with discretionary budget, etc.).

Customer 247

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

First up today was Michael Greenberg presenting Better Personal Advertising. and present themselves better in those different contexts. Nwenna Kai then presented Food Is Our Medicine Vision , an online training concept through which she wants to teach community leaders how to create healthier living concepts like organic gardens, etc.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So let’s turn our attention from what may happen in the future to what is definitely happening in the present. But make no mistake, disruptive innovation has happened, and the established supply chains are going to change accordingly. I used to be skeptical of all this talk of “personal brand.&#

San Francisco 113

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