View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Put all that together, and consider that this is a company that thinks in decades or even centuries, and we’re bound to see both more jobs and more acquisitions. Want hardcore futuristic technology?

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The same holds true for the marketer (or growth hacker if you have a semantic preference) who controls your customer acquisition channels, the salesperson who dominates your revenue creation, or the operations person without whom, you wouldn’t even know how to issue paychecks.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Text Optimizer is another useful tool that uses semantic analysis to identify underlying concepts and search patterns. These could be key questions (e.g., how much, how long, is it legal) or synonyms (e.g., blockchain, virtual currency, etc.). Text Optimizer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The difference in the two that you mentioned … I realize this is semantics at some level, but the two that you mentioned are channel based, right? There’s no strategic method — You can say there’s a strategic methodology behind it depending, again it is semantics. Robert Rose: No. And now what are we?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Lesson Learned From Rejecting Acquisition Offers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 11, 2010

Granted, this doesn’t exactly benefit either company when it comes to customer acquisition, but I think it will improve the quality of public streams dramatically. When it comes to brand promotion, marketers will drool over the semantic data and opportunity to engage consumers on a unique level. Gowalla 2.0’s

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

The acquisition of Tellme will bolster Microsoft’s existing speech capabilities, bringing both immediate and longer-term value to our customers and partners.”. Think about it – when you leave home, you grab your keys, wallet, and cell phone. The opportunity to reach and market to this third screen is huge and just in the first inning.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2016

You put tons of time into creating your product(s), experimenting with acquisition channels, honing your messaging – and here I am, about to tell you about how consumers are often swayed by such a subtle thing as the order in which you present your products. It’s a funny thing, human behavior.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

You cannot use freemium strategies without this type of user experience (and freemium is the first fundamental change to the cost of customer acquisition). This is where some foundational technology around adaptive case management, real time/event driven, open data/semantic web and loosely coupled web services are starting to have an impact.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Cost of customer acquisition = cost of visitor acquisition * conversion rate, if it is profitable: Increase the volume for the same traffic. Check for semantically related terms and long-tail queries permutations – identify the most popular queries per device. Marketing is almost equivalent to product management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the knowledge panel it’s just the knowledge panel for semantic knowledge as opposed to physical entities when it comes to local. Google is essentially extracting the key pieces of information from a given organic webpage and populating right on the search result.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I served as Chairman leading up to the acquisition.] At data.world, for example, I’ll never forget us meeting with Dean Allemang, co-author of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist , and him validating both our platform approach and business model. researching the concept for around six months prior to him and I incorporating it.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0 site, or rather a spin on something that already exists. From the link: Oh, and what was the company? It was yet another Web 2.0 Shocking, I know.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The purpose of the product lifecycle illustration is not to debate semantics but, in a single view, to understand how product sales typically change over time. Customer acquisition costs can be high, and growth may require large sales teams. There are four stages: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How can you milk the brand?

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

" Totally agreed with you on the interpersonal dynamics, but "standards everyone agrees are fair" is a philosophical/semantic sticking point. 1 vote by Jüri Kaljundi Having been through a company that was a large acquisition (Right M. more) Sign up for free to read the full text. Login if you already have an account.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The rest is just semantics. You say Google spends $10B on traffic acquisition. On the web, companies who deliver audience to advertisers are media companies, whether they pay creators to create content or not. 27 September 2012 at 5:17 am. #. But that’s because they choose that model. My point is that they do not have to.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

AOL began integrating 5min Media’s video content on its sites through a commercial agreement executed prior to the acquisition. VideoSeed, 5min Media’s proprietary semantic technology, matches the most relevant videos with a partner site’s text content to enhance the consumer experience and increase monetization rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. When you do semantic analysis on the article shared you would find out that this is an article trying to persuade people that shale oil drilling in the US is important for energy independence. Some evidence? Why does this matter?

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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. ” This is from my internal monologue that attempted to talk me out of the acquisition. Everything else is semantics. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

ActiveInsight – helps B2B organizations optimize customer acquisition and engage with top funnel prospects by analyzing customer intent in real time based online resources, mobile and social networks. The solution offers small and medium businesses significant cost savings.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

But, this is basically just semantics. Your pre-money would be $5M, but on an apples-to-apples basis to how we’re encouraging you to think about pre-money (the value of the stock allocated to the people who are already shareholders of the company), it’s $4M. Reply # Nattybumpo · Apr 26, 2007 This is very helpful.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2021

Another useful tool here is called Text Optimizer that uses semantic research (much like Google is likely to) in order to generate related questions. There are of course, other options depending on your needs. You will also see how many search queries each question shows up for so you can prioritize.

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ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2020

For question research and optimization, you can use a tool like Text Optimizer , which helps you identify popular questions around any search query and then build optimized content around them: Text Optimizer is the semantic research platform that helps you identify popular niche questions and related concepts to optimize content.

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