The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Named after the Slack collaboration platform, slackbots are AI apps that can automatically handle internal communications tasks such as answering employee questions, scheduling meetings and sending notifications. AI can also support the sales process by mining prospect data to improve lead acquisition. Improving Efficiency.

Artificial Inteligence 98

Artificial Inteligence Startup Database Engineer 98

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Only this update to the model is sent to the cloud, using encrypted communication, where it is immediately averaged with other user updates to improve the shared model. All the training data remains on your device, and no individual updates are stored in the cloud. Your phone personalizes the model locally, based on your usage (A).

Caching 140

Caching Algorithm Advertising Metadata 140

Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. 1- Sustainability. Trends that could spur investments in Technology.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Artificial Inteligence 127

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). It’s clear that in the future movies & TV will be delivered to our homes from the cloud.

Los Angeles 329

Los Angeles Revenue Retention Acquisition 329

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2010

Gist just announced that they have acquired Learn that Name and incorporated it in the Gist iPhone app. Learn that Name was a Startup Weekend Seattle project from a few months ago. The idea for Learn that Name came from Eric Koester, a lawyer in Cooley’s Seattle office. There are a lot of fun connections here for me.

Naming 119

Naming Seattle Startup Acquisition 119

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Many startups are hoping to be the next name on that list. For these businesses to be successful, focusing on engagement and mitigating churn is more important than top line growth and high spend on user acquisition. No matter which one of the giants wins, new startups face big hurdles to get into the mix.

B2C 187

B2C Cloud Valuation Acquisition 187

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. Learning to pivot is the name of the game right now. Working with cloud technology has been a must. Thanks to Gavin Johnson, Evking ! #3- 3- Caring for the team. Photo Credit: Ben Zellner. Things haven't always been easy for us.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 119

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As we are entering a new year, I thought it would be interesting to publish every quarter an update on the state of the 13 public SaaS/Cloud companies in the Index. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others?

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Salesforce holds as its guiding value “to make sure Salesforce is a platform for change,” delivering on initiatives such as renewable energy, carbon-neutral cloud computing, and green building certification. But if someone looks you up, and finds someone else [with the same name] whose interest is kite surfing, that doesn’t do you any good.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Filebase announced upcoming changes to their platform, namely removing Skynet and Storj integrations permanently. Boston, and Philly.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

You can read more about the acquisition from Coinbase and on Wired. Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition. The one millionth CryptoKitty was born last month!

Portfolio 112

Portfolio Metadata Acquisition Distribution 112

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the billion as the juggernaut it is today. and negative?—?voice

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Signable uses software to automate the sending and signing of contracts and documents and then safely stores them in the cloud for easy access. Store what’s important in The Cloud. Store them in The Cloud of course. To name just a few, Zoho subscription, and Zoho Inventory that help customize to your company’s financial needs.

Startup 107

Startup Cloud Software Email 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

For example, if your new software adds innovative new features and mobile access to a classic offering, you could name and degrade current vendors for their lack of support, or you could highlight your innovative additions over the current market leaders. The smart approach is to find competitors to highlight your strengths.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy Angel Investor 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

That’s how account-based marketing got its name. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

That’s not to say that you could not *easily* name 10 exciting AR/VR companies. A few examples: Commerce + Content + 5G AI + Video eSports and Entertainment Retail + Entertainment + Experiences Cloud + Gaming Data + Consumer Products + Sustainability. Its just that AR/VR is very far from constituting Entertainment Tech.

Vertical 113

Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Lingo licenses Watson’s core speech technology for its language servers (though that relationship will likely end after the Nuance acquisition closes), and Research in Motion’s QNX is working with Watson’s API to develop a conceptual connected car assistant. Tech News and Analysis. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone?

API 50

API Technical Review Artificial Inteligence RSS 50

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.) Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too. Simply enter their name and email, write a good cover letter, and click the share button. from people and organizations that you didn’t even know existed.

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It’s an interesting twist on the problem of trusting your data to the cloud, and one that has left me spending several hours trying to figure out the problem (a problem that began out of the blue). In any case, I apologize for the inconvenience. Things appear to be back to normal.

RSS 37

RSS Software Review Software Developers Software Development 37

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. Typically invest in series C and above, notable portfolio companies include Stripe, Lyft, Robinhood, UI Path, Snap, Duolingo and many more household names.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. We got the round done with some great names around the table--Jason Calacanis, Chris Sacca, and General Catalyst. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004.

Louisville 109

Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 109

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Bold-face names can attract instant attention and help draw paying customers. At the same, they can establish credibility with investors, who these days will fund consumer Internet companies only if they can demonstrate a customer-acquisition cost lower than Kim Kardashian’s neckline. Plus, the celebs are into it too.

Angel Investor 122

Angel Investor Startup Internet Acquisition 122

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. The name of this stage speaks for itself. To find your Google Project ID: Go to the Google Cloud Platform console. The Sign-up stage.

Churn Rate 78

Churn Rate Analytics Retention SQL 78

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Time horizons for Return on Investment from a VC investment may be 7+ years, ROI from the acquisition of an earlier stage company, 4-5 years and the ROI from acquisition of a mature company, 2-3 years.) In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It is a household name. Sam’s goal was to build a tech company fulfilling the need for storing physical items in the cloud and to build a nationally-scaled business that would be hard to compete against. ” Let’s start with some basics. ” Ha. How worried should they be?

Technical Review 150

Technical Review San Diego Dallas Sacramento 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

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. You’re also able to work effectively from that ambiguous cloud that’s the talk of the town, without going through the public domain. And much more.

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CTO Hire Cloud Software Review Employee 138

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

You can also give your audience a name at this point. As you can see, it addresses the prospect by name but the message itself is obviously tailored to where the prospect is in the funnel: in this case, they just signed up for the service. Click on the big blue plus sign and you’ll see a dropdown list. Watch the video ).

Video 141

Video Audience Metrics Analytics 141

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Bold-face names can attract instant attention and help draw paying customers. At the same, they can establish credibility with investors, who these days will fund consumer Internet companies only if they can demonstrate a customer-acquisition cost lower than Kim Kardashian’s neckline. Plus, the celebs are into it too.

Angel Investor 74

Angel Investor Startup Internet Acquisition 74

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 21, 2010

Salesforce.com makes strategic entry into the $3 billion market for cloud-based data services. It will be interesting how the integration of Jigsaw plays out in the near term but I suspect this is not the first data services acquisition we will see Salesforce.com pull off.

San Francisco 44

San Francisco Silicon Valley Marketing Acquisition 44

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? thanks for the comments on the #java innovation and #nosql post [link] names of oss java streaming tools? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages?

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? thanks for the comments on the #java innovation and #nosql post [link] names of oss java streaming tools? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages?

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. On top of an Enterprise Cloud environment that’s supposed to be called JEDI. And what does the world of AI, Enterprise Cloud, 5G, and someday quantum look like? Lean, MVPs and the DOD.

Artificial Inteligence 259

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 259

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Deliverable for Jan 18 th : Find a name for your team. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Setup your Google or Amazon cloud infrastructure. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Read: Business Model Generation , pp.

Wiki 315

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 315

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Bold-face names can attract instant attention and help draw paying customers. At the same, they can establish credibility with investors, who these days will fund consumer Internet companies only if they can demonstrate a customer-acquisition cost lower than Kim Kardashian’s neckline. Plus, the celebs are into it too.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Startup Internet Acquisition 60