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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches?

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. It’s a cruel game, and it doesn’t necessarily end up with the best matches. Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. It’s an SEO strategy that focuses on making users happy rather than hitting a particular keyword density or winning exact-match anchor text. Aggregators? It also implicitly asks (i.e.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

To find what barriers your mobile website may face , let’s look at the limitations of mobile, how to compensate for them, and what improvements you can implement to ensure the best user experience, increase conversions, better retarget potential customers, and more. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric. Image Source.

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

Heat maps are a popular conversion optimization tool , but are they really that useful? In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. What is a heat map?

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality.