Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Competes with McAfee , Thawte. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

CrowdFunnel offers a unique form of marketing and media buying for crowdfunding platforms, issuers and agencies. We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. The rise of the non-accredited investor as a vital stakeholder for both platforms and issuers.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. 11- Blinkist.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Technical Review Non-Compete Software Review 125

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Similarly, understanding that awareness is growing across the industry might prompt AirHelp to team up with a similar company (a non-competitor, but a relevant industry leader) to launch a dual campaign. This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand consideration. Brand usage.

Metrics 157

Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!) This creates a sample, sampling and self-reported biases.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2017

Given that fashion-related products was ranked the most popular eCommerce vertical in 2015 , product filtering is clearly an issue eCommerce sites are facing. The “perfect” combination will depend on your vertical, product catalog, visitors and a variety of other factors. Hide Non-Existent Options. Image Source.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Product SEO Search 108

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The colors, visual styles, and fonts on your website should look like your business cards , which should look like your social media accounts, which should look like your business logo, which should look like your… you get the idea. Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle has made serving non-GMO foods a key element of their brand promise.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. And I think self-publishing is most beneficial non-fiction creators and writers.

Audience 89

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 89

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

We need to listen non-critically to ideas. Second, they don’t have to compete on price because their customers are willing to pay more for the excellent service they receive. Afterward, the company realized that the media and word-of-mouth exposure was more valuable than the ad campaigns they had been considering.

Leadership 169

Leadership Employee Community Non-Compete 169

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. They had to fight for the right to compete. Then they had to compete and win as well. We were thrilled to welcome Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as our first guest to the virtual event.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now. We have a start-up in the works.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2015

Partner up with a vertical business for a joint campaign and share the costs for a premium billboard. There’s really no need to put together an in-house PR team for your company; you just need to create relationships with relevant media to get favorable coverage from the local journalists in your area. Get your own PR team.

Marketing 60

Marketing PR Non-Compete Software Review 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Use your customers and competitors to help you move the ball forward (buy a new tool, hire another analyst, kill hideous home pages, spend right amounts on SEM and SEO, publish rich media on your site, implement feedburner , or whatever else you want). There were only two companies essentially competing and this was the Category key term.

Management 68

Management Analytics San Diego Web 68

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? My gut always is, competing on price just doesn’t work.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Small businesses and startups have to compete in an increasingly noisy world, often against large, dominant businesses. This dynamic typography effect features a chaotic, non-linear placement of the letters. After all, if you’re selling anything online, you’re competing with millions of other e-commerce businesses.

Design 91

Design Social Media Non-Compete Vertical 91

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other projects are focused just on the p2p communication side to facilitate core applications like messaging and social media. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users.

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

By default they only work with JavaScript tags (Percent Mobile will also capture behavior on non JavaScript enabled phones) and even then their databases of phone attributes and carrier attributes are quite poor. You are also in control of study participants and you can invite them via social media or a pop up on your site.

Analytics 135

Analytics Web Non-Compete Campaign 135

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. or “Where can I find a pricing consultant for a non-profit organization?”.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Read here, ‘make it available to the corporate market to buy’ Just like a strong social media voice became an asset, expect personal data trails to have as much or more value in the coming years. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Google becoming an Auto Industry player.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read here, ‘make it available to the corporate market to buy’ Just like a strong social media voice became an asset, expect personal data trails to have as much or more value in the coming years. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Google becoming an Auto Industry player.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. ESPN in sports. CNN/Fox in news.

Vertical 150

Vertical Video South America Los Angeles 150

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. As a firm that prides itself in being a media company, the backlash/gloating was particularly bad. A trend report published by Newzoo on June 28 2022 , features the startup landscape of metaverse, NFTs, pay-to-earn, and blockchain gaming.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis. It does not show data for non-US visitors to your site.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

Of course, measure that using the four best social media metrics !) For more on that, please see this post: How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses! PS: If you love anything as a KPI for an ecommerce site or a non-ecommerce site (sorry, that's all the context you get :)), would you please reply?

Analytics 60

Analytics Marketing Metrics Audience 60

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Bill Gurley : Great.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43