Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. 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 wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software.

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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. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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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.

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Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

An advanced recruitment software addresses all these challenges. Our clients source candidates across all geographies and verticals. No secure payment functionality is offered at present ( 2018). Is it possible to simultaneously source candidates in a number of countries? Transformify Recruitment CRM is a global solution.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. This being presented to another company’s proud engineering team who was being forced to buy product from us because they couldn’t build their own in time.) The result wasn’t what I expected.

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deal architect

MARCH 20, 2022

He presents an. As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Antony Bourne, Senior Vice President of Industries at IFS.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

Without enough buyers in the system, it’s not worth it for the sellers to show up; without enough sellers present, buyers don’t have anything to purchase. I’ve observed a couple of strategies and approaches for overcoming cold-start inertia : Offer supply side value for being present beyond just buyers.

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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. BuiltWith lets you take a peek under the hood of your competitors’ websites and find out exactly what software they use.

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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. exactly what software tools they are using. To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Yesterday, in Part 1, I ran a presentation by Mark Brewer of IFS on. As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series.

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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? this drops by $0.30-$0.50

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source. Your ads should be in keeping with how you present yourself online and offline. Todd Brown Marketing.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

I wasn’t expecting anything earth shattering, if only because this company has been around for a long time now, 12 years to be exact and probably as well known for it’s largest shareholder, Larry Ellison, as being a pioneer in software as a service business applications.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. I should have been suspicious when he said, “I’d like to take a copy of your presentation to show him.” His enthusiastic response was, “This will revolutionize marketing departments!” Are These Your Slides?

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It’s naturally tougher to be a user for business apps, particularly vertically-focused apps. For example, Figure 1 is a photo-sharing app for medical professionals and Clio offers practice management software for lawyers. My wife uses Julep and Chloe & Isabel. And I’m neither a doctor nor a lawyer.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. There’s no time to fix that like the present, so a) I created a mailing list, you should probably sign up and b) I would like to explain why your business should probably send more email than it is right now.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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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. On to today's roundtable, we had five businesses, all of which, I believe, can be built to become sustainable companies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But we knew something they didn’t; the total available market for color graphics boards was measurable by looking at an adjacent market, the color desktop publishing software market. First, I presented what I had learned. You could sense the skepticism in my staff meeting as I described what I found.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

That what used to be more vertically integrated efforts by different companies are being picked apart by especially entrepreneurs coming in and taking various pieces of their value chain, again, leveraging digital. John Jantsch (06:59): So, so the book does present a framework for somebody who is thinking, gosh, I need to get on board here.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. 4) Manage deal flow.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Most financial valuation formulas value an asset by discounting the asset using the cost of capital (interest rate) to the present day. This differential is often referred to as “Goodwill” and it is an idea plays out a lot in the software market. Compared to Accounting, Finance is ruthlessly forward looking.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Marc Andreesen famously said that “ software is eating the world.” Considering the fact that more than 50% of inbound customer service calls will be made from mobile devices by 2016, mobile presents a big opportunity to rethink the customer support experience. Now it looks like mobile is eating the web. We’ve arrived at that milestone.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2016

At the same time, enterprises today can leverage the cloud to make faster, more efficient software changes; use social media to connect with customers; deploy predictive analytics to determine what their customers will want and connect and control devices via a central point with the Internet of Things (IoT). billion to 8.6

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. This was closely followed by software, multimedia and games, which all grew at 22 percent. The FinTech sector also saw substantial growth at 12 percent. Russian tech: Sectors to watch.

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tomazkovacic.com

MARCH 24, 2011

The majority of methods presented in research papers from that epoch are nowadays useless due to strong assumptions and heuristics that don’t apply on today’s web development practices. The algorithm applies vertical and horizontal separators to the block layout to construct such a semantic structure.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Manuge continues, “Corl connects to a business’ bank accounts, accounting software, payment processors, and other digital services to collect 10,000+ historical data points that are analyzed in real-time. The majority of businesses that apply for funding with Corl are E-commerce, SaaS, and other digital businesses.” . Apply for funding.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Here is the full presentation if you want to dive deeper: Bessemer 5 Cs of SaaS Finance View more presentations from Philippe Botteri. software. (10).

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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. Next Sajeeva Bora with tekMunk Software Solutions discussed BizzGenie , a business software concept to help retailers manage the decision-making between "shop floors and top floors."

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

However, in a recent blog post and presentation, Andrew Chen argues that SaaS products aren’t viral: “For consumer internet entrepreneurs that are working on big markets, getting to virality is hard enough. For example, in the legal world, lawyers from different firms often interact while working on a case for their respective clients.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Users don’t want to come to a page and click on a filter to see free software; they want access only to free solutions when they search for them. Define value.

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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. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. But make no mistake, disruptive innovation has happened, and the established supply chains are going to change accordingly. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Reply DK , on September 15, 2009 at 3:04 am Said: Best summary of the past, present and the future of venture business. Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between [.] [.] Reply Lee Hower , on September 16, 2009 at 3:38 am Said: Excellent post, thx.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

You own the hardware and the software, as well as the long term co-location, support and network contracts. You will end up with all of that presented to you as a service: everything from individual servers to whole applications will be provided as a service. A small but powerful position. Today, you pay for everything up front.

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