Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Shippo integrated with USPS ePostage , making them one of only a few public APIs for purchasing US postage online. If you’re not familiar with Shippo, they’re a shipping API for ecommerce platforms and stores: stores can check rates across multiple carriers, get discounted shipping labels, track parcels, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Second, and equally as important, cloud services platforms are increasing offered with web service APIs that allow the client, vendor or even a third-party integrator to easily customize the solution to meet the exact needs of the firm, without requiring proprietary knowledge of the vendor.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Does Apple win the hearts (yes, hearts ) of millions because of their obsession with design or because of their development APIs? Of course it's not that simple, and many business plans I've seen (unintentionally) omit many of the true costs of acquisition.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. Over the next few decades, I expect forces in Washington DC to use economic and monetary policy to attempt to rebalance the trade relationship between the world’s two most dynamic countries. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Snapchat made waves earlier this year when the company reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion acquisition attempt from Facebook and $4 billion from Google. The service is a productivity tool that combines a variety of APIs to enable your online accounts to communicate with each other. IFTTT=If This Then That. SmartThings.

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

It’s the largest acquisition by the company, ever. But over that five year period, signing documents online turned out to be a very important and profitable product feature, to the tune over $10B in market value. It was a critically important product feature for modern workflows.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Actually, that’s a blog post all of its own, but here are a few examples: Clarify makes audio and video searchable via its API. This involves learning context and content attributes.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

One developer got so sick of repeating this task that he built us a tool that APIs out of a Google Sheet into a publishing interface. Why not ask your team to build tools to manage updates yourself? Our hreflang sitemaps got to the point that we needed to update them weekly.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Seed round), and Lula (insurance API infrastructure – $18M Series A). . Our structured sessions will focus on fundraising, product, customer acquisition, as well as other important pre-seed topics. . Important to note that we do not view follow-on funding as the only signal of success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. In the ecommerce arena I see some great companies spending heavily on customer acquisition. __. faux·men·tum.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The best-known example of SDN probably is  Nicira , not in the least because of their $1 billion acquisition by VMWare. t have to bother about mounting, partitioning, and formatting virtual disks, you can just store and retrieve objects via an HTTP API. the  Google Prediction API ), communicate app services (e.g. Image 2 â??

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. Start your list of target sponsors around these interests. Which brands resonate with your audience and the content you provide? For example, one of the sponsors for RailsConf is Zendesk.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2017

Machine-learning as-a-service dies a death – main reason: machine learning APIs are two dumb for AI experts and too difficult for AI novices. Machine learning APIs aren’t solving a problem for anyone. This reached the point where $m per PhD was talked about as an acquisition metric. They don’t have a market.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But Harsha has created another tool - Fundastic.info , using the data already available through the CrunchBase API to help visualize investment information. It helps provide people with more information and answers about angel investment. Below are the details for Sequoia Capital, for example.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

The supporting piece is that every product at Amazon should have an API, just as if it were developed for an external client. For example, Mike George joined Amazon in 1998 through Junglee’s acquisition. This decouples the speed of development between different product teams, and offers a clean hand-off between the two.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 5, 2014

The team at Lob , a company bringing commercial print and mail infrastructure to the cloud through a simple API, encountered this common struggle. According to Avidar, finding the first user is the most important step in the user acquisition process. Think small. One user is very powerful,” said Lob co-founder Leore Avidar.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution. To best explain the process of RBF funding, let’s use an example.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m

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K9 Ventures

JULY 5, 2011

Few people are aware of this, but BackType had already built an interesting (and revenue generating) API business. Their API helped power features for bit.ly , Chartbeat , HubSpot , The Huffington Post , Radian6 and over 100 other partners. Congrats Team BackType!

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Infochimps , a marketplace to buy, sell and share any list, spreadsheet or dataset in the world, today announced the acquisition of Data Marketplace , a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps people find, buy and sell data online. What does this acquisition do for you as a company? and other data projects.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Instead of measuring Awareness, Appeal, and Ask separately, we combined all marketing acquisition efforts under the Awareness stage, leaving Act to account for conversions in the form of sign-ups. ProfitWell has a very good API , so it’s easy to obtain data from it. Go to the API Keys/Dev Kit tab and copy your private token.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Apparently, you two met at an enterprise startup software called Bium, which helped lead an acquisition to, by Google, I should say, and they're both investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency 18, A firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt the unsold mindset. Their, their job is to sell technology, but they hate it.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 15, 2021

A few of these include tracking third-party sites, review acquisitions, monitoring social media, and managing content. Features include an insights center, customizable API, and an influencer dashboard. These companies can take care of your online reputation, by tracking and molding your rep on the internet. Get the Right Insurance.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Dave McClure’s AARRR metrics and Andrew Chen ‘s specifics on freemium models, viral marketing, user acquisition and engagement both offer examples of exit criteria for Customer Discovery and Validation for startups on the web. Eric and I will be working on others.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Google Analytics’ Cohort Analysis report is limited to one cohort type (Date of Acquisition). Scrape any website without going through an API (and make the data accessible via a web page). This is an interesting tutorial for using APIs in Python to pull social data. Here’s a guide to creating an RFM model in Python. Conclusion.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. Simply having an API doesn’t make your company a platform. Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. Google of course has Android.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 22, 2011

All this collection talk assumes you can even get an API feed from Twitter or Facebook. People who actually have Facebook API access talk about it in whispered tones, like the location of a vein of gold in the hills. How about some comments from you folks in Austin working in Big Data?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. New York is a city that invites escape from whatever it is you do.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. New York is a city that invites escape from whatever it is you do.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The same can be said of Facebook and its acquisition of Oculus, along with its recent full-frontal assault against Snapchat AR filters and lenses. Snap will need to build foundational cloud service APIs that tech giants have been building for 5–10 years such as maps, identity, authentication, etc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2020

We used Wikimedia’s REST API to pull pageview data for January 20–21 (the Monday and Tuesday before the Wednesday change) and January 27–28 (the Monday and Tuesday after the change). Organic search, and Google in particular, is many sites’ most powerful acquisition channel —present site included. not “How can I undo this change?”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, growth marketers, digital analysts, email marketing specialists, and customer acquisition specialists all do some form of conversion optimization. As the market matures, these limitations become more apparent, and with it the increased demand for APIs and ‘headless’ optimization platforms. ” Deeper Data Skills.

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