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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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Layer 3: deploying code. Software Defined Datacenterâ??

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The Curious AI Company , a General AI company whose first venture is waste sorting (the very definition of unsexy but lucrative), reportedly aims to sell its AI software as a toolkit. 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 ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! This is John Jantsch.

Channel 66

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Hack stars making app development and learning to code easier are abundant. As Lauren Orsini pointed out in her review this year, “Today’s gaming landscape is shrinking, filled with increasing DRM limits that keep us from fully owning the games and consoles we thought we bought.” Humanized robots are making headlines. SmartThings.

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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. In store, AR can be used to provide product details, promotional displays, customer reviews and more.

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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. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below.

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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. What is a ladder-up strategy?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

After the acquisition, it started branching out into more areas of data science and analytics. To make the most of Kaggle, having some ability to work with code is helpful. If you don’t code however, no worries—this isn’t a technical post. Kaggle community analyses: Jump start your analysis by reviewing others’ work.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 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.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T For example, Snyk has recently announced a number of acquisitions. of market capitalization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

They’re pulling in things like critical reviews so if a business is on [00:03:32] or Eater or some of these other — depending on your industry you know maybe it’s something like Superlawyers if you’re a lawyer. John: What do you think about the trend to blend organic and paid. David: Sure.

Search 31

Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 31

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The web is littered with re-worded explanations, so rather than spilling more ink, here’s one of the better ones : A Progressive Web Application is a software application, written in the Web platform and running in the browser, that behaves like a cloud-delivered native application. AMP for acquisition, PWAs for engagement.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

Price Intelligently recommends one to two price changes each year : The companies we’ve seen with the most success with revenue and adoption are reviewing pricing at least once per quarter and making tweaks or changes every 6 to 9 months. Just created an API? 5 signs that it’s time to raise prices. Six months have passed.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Many enterprises have leveraged Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) since Salesforce launched almost two decades ago. Other vendors including Box and ServiceNow have completely replaced on-premises solutions with cloud-based solutions, SaaS is now the preferred way companies consume core business software.

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CTO Hire Cloud Software Review Employee 138

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Now you need to actually collect data from your app via a software development kit (SDK), which connects to the Google Analytics APIs. Acquisition and Segmentation. This is why ratings and reviews can be so impactful. Acquisition Reports. To start, let’s look at acquisition reports… Image Source.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software.

Detroit 69

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

How can I e.g. determine the ROI of my mobile traffic acquisition, when people regularly convert on their laptops later… What would be the current best practice to move towards a proper cross-device attribution, while maintaining or improving on privacy standards at the same time?? That means: All of these metrics are off.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. Scanned QR codes. Links shared and clicked within mobile apps and instant messengers.

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Software By Rob

MAY 13, 2010

FogBugz’s hook is “Bring Your Project into Focus” Basecamp’s hook is “The Better Way to Get Projects Done” Bidsketch’s hook is “Simple Proposal Software Made for Designers” When it was launched, the iPod’s hook was “One Thousand Songs in Your Pocket” These are 5-7 word summaries of your product. DotNetInvoice’s hook is “Save Time.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2024

Robust software solutions that can handle complicated workflows and different regulatory contexts are becoming increasingly necessary as firms rely more and more on a flexible workforce, including freelancers and external contractors. What is Contractor Management ?

Management 52

Management Software Review Global Security 52

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

As Sascha Konietzke said , “Onboarding for API-centric products is very different. Developers don’t want a forced click-through tutorial, they want to use your API right away. Support them with quick start documentation as well as example code and get out of their way as soon as you can.” So, what does that mean?

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Mobile Retention Email Software Review 48

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is part 2 in a series covering my acquisition of HitTail ; part 1 went to the top of Hacker News last week and I have a slew of questions from that discussion that I will answer next week. Any problems that existed when I took it over had crept in over time due to changing APIs, lack of maintenance, and failed hardware.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=BoomTown. Featured Reviews. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). ATDreviews (Reviews).

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Valuation Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 45

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Use their api to handle payment related stuff. Rovi API has everything you need for information. Rdio provides the music and the player via an API. Box API lets you store files dynamically! Seed Startups.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. Carter’ (another retailer) sends you an email with coupon codes and on the top of the site, they put the exact same coupon you received from the email. What’s the digital equivalent of this?

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