Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. But the best MCNs are so much more.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

it is no secret that the revenue engine for google is advertising. The Gorilla of the revenue sources continues to be Ad revenues from Google Websites growing at 20.48% from year 2013. Online users at the end of 2014 stand at 2,925.249,355 and has grown 7.85% from 2013. The consumer and the advertiser win too in this game.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Privy: online advertising for small/medium-sized businesses. Markerly: increases publisher page views and engagement by providing next-generation social sharing and discovery tools.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Facebook and its affiliates, Instagram and Whatsapp, aggregate data such as likes and dislikes, engagements, time spent watching a video, etc.; Anish Sebastian co-founded Babyscripts in 2013 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. And so we built our company. They may [.].

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here's the complete year 2013… While the numbers for individual month are different, you can see that October spiked and then things came down to below Sept performance by December. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Will creativity and human touch still be part of the advertising process, or will they be completely replaced by algorithms? Since 2013, her advanced focus is IT solutions for marketing and financial sector. These statistics are rapidly changing in favor of a data-driven approach, showing that over 60% of companies are using Big Data.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In 2013, we are in the midst of a critical platform transition from the browser-based Internet to mobile applications platforms like iOS and Android. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet. “Conversion Rate” is a misleading term. 71 Things to A/B Test.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Yet, many don't have access to a well set-up account to build attribution modeling savvy and take their company's analytics the year 2013. Try it when you are in the Store demo account. Take a break. Strong feelings. Now, you can!

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. They are more likely to disclose, or perhaps even advertise their prices. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Finally, this is picky, but why is most of the x-axis yearly and then suddenly just until Q2, 2013? If I had the raw data, I would also fix the x-axis and representation of the partial 2013 data. Focus on Economic Value from your search advertising. Focus on Profit from your search advertising. Watch out for these errors.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

The cars we drive, the computer or mobile device you are using to read this sentence, the Great Wall of China, Abercrombie and Fitch advertisements – all of them have gone through some form of the scientific method applied many times over a period of months, years, or even decades. You want experimentation. Would it be profitable?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! So why is it that YouTube's home page is still such a cluttered mess? Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com 3m.com or www.gillette.com they ask me to pick my country? Go ahead, click on that link.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

might circulate, making business owners and advertisers alike wary of diving into uncharted waters. On top of that, nearly 80% of consumers say “when price and quality are equal, they prefer to buy products from companies that advertise or sponsor podcasts they regularly enjoy”. image source. Why the difference?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

And while many schools have begun to steeply discount their advertised tuitions as they scramble to attract new students in the current market, thousands of graduates continue to emerge from college saddled with six-figure debts. Another key step will involve aggregating this data.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

A benchmark for you: In 2013 if 30% of your time, Ms./Mr. PS: Bonus : Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value. Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. Not going to happen. So what is it?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. New on VC Cafe: The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List 2013 bit.ly/14ztpRb

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. News aggregation startup Wavii has launched a new version of its iPhone app, which comes with improved news feeds, social interactions, and a better sign-up process.

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