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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Aggregators? Geography (i.e.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) Andres Moran.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. the Untouched Vertical.

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Special: 20 Israeli Startups Come to London for “New Media” Delegation

VC Cafe

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more.

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