Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Over the past 2.5

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Although even in that case it’s not possible to cover all the subspecialties in fields as complex as life sciences, it improves the odds of finding a calling for your advice just based on the number of deals aggregated in one spot. Your choice.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. Real-time conversations and dynamic curation of news stories empowers people to expand their social networks and personal expertise about topics important to them.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

I had a conversation recently about the investing business with Katina Stefanova , who recently left Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. My conversation with Katina below is part 3 of my series on disrupting asset management. Katina served as a Senior Executive and Management Committee Advisor at Bridgewater Associates.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Jeff Degraff took to the stage and wasted no time in jump-starting the conversation, “What does your innovation kill?” Peter concurred, and also noted that everything moves forward when companies start the conversation with a deep understanding of the problem they’re trying to solve.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Conversely, startups looking to hire aren’t exactly sure where to look for the people with the right skill sets they need. “We made it our ‘extra-curricular’ project to create Launchpad, with the help of other start-ups, universities, and partners to spread the word to reach more students.”

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Substack should partner with a broad set of 3rd party products to enable deep integrations inside of their newsletters. But Substack should offer to ‘enhance’ strategic partners in a way which grows the pie (while taking their share). Kinda like Heroku, Shopify, Salesforce style app store more so than Apple.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

In a face to face networking situation, this would be how you enter the conversation. Then consider what the logical progression of the conversation would be after the offer’s been made. When you compare the value per customer with Dan Zarrella’s aggregate Click Through Data, you see a very revealing story.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. Founding Date: 2004.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Jonathan is a speaker and advisor managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. Challenges of scaling Jeff and Jay share conversations about grow, growing and scaling subscription businesses with a customer first approach, check out all the episodes. Marketing Podcast with Jonathan Brill.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I had met Brendan that past Spring when I had just left Insight Data Science and he was at Greylock Partners. Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2016

It can be used to convert customers, convince co-marketing partners to collaborate with you, and build loyalty longer term. In aggregate, he says, the conversion rates tend to go up. (He It can be used to grow reach by sharing valuable content which then gets forwarded to others by your existing subscribers.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By capturing data on the diversity and composition of startup boards, we hope to offer an industry-wide snapshot to help CEOs start to have what can often be tricky conversations with their VCs about board size and composition as early as possible. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Decision expert (and leading poker player) Annie Duke comes back on the a16z Podcast — after our first conversation with her for Thinking in Bets , which focused mainly on WHY our decision making gets so frustrated — to talk about her new book , which picks up where the last left off, on HOW to Decide: Simple Tools for Better Choices.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

It achieved a conversion rate of up to 4.48%, approximately twice as high as the next leading online travel agency (2.4%). It aggregates listings in over 200 countries from the likes of Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb, along with other alternative types of accommodation, into an embeddable widget.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 6, 2016

Robert Scoble is perhaps the greatest blogger of them all, so when I started blogging in 2006 I read Naked Conversations , his guide to blogging. When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. We knew when we started Migo that there would be an explosion of ride partners and that’s proving true. Can you explain how the app works?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” When we thought there may be a match, my partners and I would introduce someone who we knew was looking for a new job straight to a portfolio company. And we know many top individuals exist outside a circle even that wide.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

The fact these conversations aren’t directly attributable to sales conversion aren’t fundamental statements about social traffic, but rather continued product gaps in the underlying platforms. Giving me links to 3rd party research about these products on content partner sites like CNet, Engadget, etc.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By capturing data on the diversity and composition of startup boards, we hope to offer an industry-wide snapshot to help CEOs start to have what can often be tricky conversations with their VCs about board size and composition as early as possible. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Provide employees with the information and processes necessary to know their customers, understand their needs, and effectively build relationships between the company, its customer base, and distribution partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). They know that a call will lead to a higher conversion rate and a better chance to cross-sell products leading to higher average order values. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

You don’t get to control the conversation. In fact, you will probably not even be able to impact the conversation unless you are putting out high quality educational materials on a regular basis such that Google sees you as a good source of education. inbound marketing Lead Conversion Lead Generation Marketing Strategy Dan Kraus'

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However, for the trials that they did receive they were successful at converting them to closed deals at the expected conversion rate. Peeling back another layer, they will tell you that the number of trials is equal to the visitors to the site x the conversion rate of those visitors to trials. But this can be expensive to increase.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

An example of that would be aggregating supply instead of building it. We then decided to bring in other partners instead of trying to do this ourselves. Marc Nathan [a Capital Factory Mentor] said if you have not talked to them in a year, it’s a whole new conversation, it’s completely different. That’s a big part of us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For me, it’s a tool to amplify my own content, filter and aggregate other people’s content and network for links and conversations. Go out today and put your customers, competitors, partners and media sources on Twitter lists so it’s easy to keep up on what they are doing, asking, sharing and requiring on Twitter.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Crowdfunding will always be a challenging conversion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. currently has 70,000 publishers reaching 45mm readers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2015

I like to refer to conferences as ‘networking nodes’ because they aggregate people of related disciplines or industries in one location, which makes networking extremely efficient. Furthermore, this networking has an ‘expiration date,’ so you won’t be stuck making conversation indefinitely.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. The analogy of a lively dinner conversation to describe Visible Networking is perfect. There need to be more ways to aggregate meaningful conversations on specific topics, and that's exactly what you are doing with your socalCTO and your [link]. Having fun again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Raylene and Jen. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. 9:30) USDR origin story. (9:56)

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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. Or going to an event like SXSW and accessing relevant conversations about any panel going on through your smartphone.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

As part of the Techstars library, “Sell More Faster” contains aggregated knowledge from Techstars leaders, instilling lessons learned from the accelerator’s experience with years of work with startups. Entrepreneurs make connections with other entrepreneurs, mentors, corporate partners, and investors who will help their company succeed.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Partner with a professional business services company. It has also affected people’s mental, emotional, and physical health.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Salesforce, Ning - get platform + API leverage - must go down a particular path Marc Canter CEO, Broadband Mechanics - makers of People Aggregator VERY colorful speaker. ThreadsML , a data fomrat for persistent conversations. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Everything else is closed.

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