VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In the A16Z blog , Li Jin, one of the most prominent writers on the creator economy, said that creators can make a living with only 100 true fans, by segmenting their audience and offering tailored products and services at varying price points. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less. ” Eric Feng.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Far more important is whether that audience has a need that you solve. Who is correct?

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. I thought I’d provide a little analysis of Twitter based on their S-1, but also strive to put it in a broader context of other consumer internet businesses and where we are in the current tech cycle.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

" For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. " "Hit it."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. YouTube is an obvious and popular choice. DailyMotion. billion videos per month.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. At the left of the graph is the “head end” of the market, where the “hits” are produced for mass audiences. Why is that? Even a hundred.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. In PR placements, ‘place’ matters. Leverage your friends.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. But I really have a hard time believing that Facebook will continue to dominate the internet’s page views 10 years from now. Not natively mobile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“However, given the overwhelming number of conversations coming in from all directions all at once, it’s often impossible to focus a lens on the ones that are most relevant for a given time, place, audience and outcome. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. For my business Direct Visits are very important, a much higher % of people see the home page of the site, as are mobile and tablet combined have a very desirable audience. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

To help encourage the official events, while still giving breathing space to the unofficial events, producers like Southby are arming their audience with mobile apps. The unpredictability of a public audience makes for unique moments, and a public performance in a nontraditional location can garner a lot of views on YouTube.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% When your target audience is elderly, make your website as easy to use and clutter-free as possible.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kyle Dunn, CEO, Meyler Capital , says, “Investors should focus on building a large audience within a CRM system (having the ability to categorize your different constituents); communicate consistently to that audience; and implement an automation platform that can leverage lead score to profile interest. 2) Market . 11) Exit .

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos. So is the internet.

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aweissman.com

MARCH 4, 2007

In reading the recent Piper Jaffray Internet Advertising report, I was struck by what the report lists as trend number three in the "Media World Order:" Indeed, I think the implications of this concept are greater than as relates to a strict definition of the media world. Audiences, if you will. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. Most will fail. I repeat the same mantra to every one I see. “You can’t build a large online video company. Here is an example.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. 4 – Poor Marketing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

and “How do you know that your audience wants to hear a podcast?” However, the research shows that Podcast listeners are a pretty attractive crew for businesses looking to talk to a captive, engaged audience. Reaching Your Target Audience. Questions like, “What about the demographics of those listening?” image credit.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Text The Mob – Collect feedback during presentations and seminars by posting polls or message boards on a large screen and having your audience send their input via their cell phones. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. More information can be found at.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

That's the internet for you. As you improve the user experience, information architecture and relevancy of content on your site, it is important to keep an eye not on the rather useless metric of Average Page Views per Visit or Average Time on Site but rather on the distribution of page depth. Where is it? They all have it.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

For example, SPD Load has a separate landing page with interactive resources, such as different calculators and guides, that people in their target audience might find useful and naturally link to. . Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And I guess as I'm talking about that, it really is a lot like the early days of the internet. BA : Yeah.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like this catchy song, the Internet is full of innovative sites products put up there by entrepreneurs looking to get a million users, downloads or clicks. Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. If you’re the average Internet user, probably 10-15. But how many sites do you use on a regular basis?

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. Cracking The Code. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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