abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. New Use Cases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

The stakes are too high to risk losing business due to weak website design or poor user experience. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. The results are quite technical but should give you an idea of how well your site performs.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

But by the time we ended 2015, the headlines like “ The Dangers Ahead if Tech Unicorns Get Gored (WSJ) ” and “ Regulators Look Into Mutual Funds Procedures for Valuing Startups (WSJ) “ “Unicorn” went from being a brass ring to reach for to a term used with sarcasm or derision. Revenue is revenue, right?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. Please stop being stupid in 2014. Always compare data between segments and distributions. Higher revenue / conversions are more important than boss’s wife liking the sliders. Barack Obama.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “I million in revenue a year. . Qualified.io

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “I million in revenue a year. . Qualified.io

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I’ve run into organizations that don’t know how to effectively create, participate, manage or lead analysts and often believe that “data science” or the latest technology will save the day , not the team of people with different skill sets working cross-functionally to make systematic improvements. What to do?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. Money, money, money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. 29:24) We talk about the social and economic impact of all the technology we've all been using to make our lives possible these last weeks. (35:09) There have been a lot of examples for that for testing.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

I am thrilled to be able to pay my publicists more than larger companies because it’s the right thing to do and cheer alongside the hard-working authors for whom reviews are far and few between without an independent publicist on their team. The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. Photo Credit: Nigel Sielegar.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases , searches performed by only 10% of the site’s total traffic made up nearly 40% of the companies overall revenue. As powerful as self-optimizing results are, the technology can truthfully be expensive.

Search 107

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Healthcare on Your Wrist.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Deepika Padukone, Best Bollywood actress of 2014. Mobile Data as a percentage of total revenue is about 7.5%. Apple has a very limited market presence in India, due to high price and limited distribution. Data services currently contribute only about 8-9 % of revenue for mobile operators, versus 52% in the US.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2014, when Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer and became CEO, Microsoft was worth $330B. While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x This world of giants is dominated by one colossus: Microsoft. in Sept 2020.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9)

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” We think so.

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Brandanew

MAY 14, 2015

As important, is their ability to move with speed – they don’t require two week’s advance notice for an individual post can be reviewed by Marketing , Legal, and Management. Brandanew: In terms of content distribution, do you think social is the single biggest channel out there? Thank you Ken for your insights and time.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

That’s because I’d just come from a big corporation (Google) and had a “process” behind reviewing and interviewing candidates, and Jeff’s resume basically read two things: high school diploma and bartender, 10 years. They review resumes like they would for any other function.

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