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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. And then there’s the potential for autonomy.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. Sales teams cost money, and of course, they also deliver another layer of organizational complexity.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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9 Things You Should Know About Social Login & CRO

ConversionXL

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in.

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Social Login and CRO: 9 Things You Should Know

ConversionXL

77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue—whatever business you are in.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. 6) Negotiate deal. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Denouement

Agile VC

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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