Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The only exceptions that come to mind are if the IP seems likely to provoke costly litigation, costs too much to develop, or taints the startup with some kind of ties to other ventures or people that give it a checkered past.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

I threw out the world class tool, purchased ClickTracks for a fraction of the cost and put money into Analysts and boom! You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! Clean into the three desired categories.

Analytics 96

Analytics Viral Web Mobile 96

ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Because of calculation costs.

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Your credit card charges can be imported, you can track time or mileage, and you can keep track of various billable costs to pass on to your customers. Expensify can be customized with user-set rules to comply with company’s policies and can be used online of off. Build a community and ask them! For as little as $3.95

Small Business 92

Small Business Database Social Media Aggregator 92

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Maternova is an online marketplace for low-cost but vital obstetric tools; you might think of it as something like Amazon for childbirth-related medical supplies. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise? We will work until we get it right.”

Cofounder 60

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option. Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. Image source ).

Software Review 117

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2019

No database administration; No limitations; Quick imports; Process terabytes in seconds; Data stored in EU or United States; Encryption; Access control; Two-step verification; Data-loss prevention; Integration with other Google tools; $300 in test credits; Huge community; Educational resources (courses, labs, etc.). Another use case.

SQL 84

SQL Analytics Marketing Cloud 84

klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Cohort Retention Tables, Customer Happiness Reports, Traffic Referral Reports or Revenue Reports are typical examples for accounting reports. In case of exploration it usually doesn’t matter too much if we have only little historic data , or that we need to jump through a few hoops (aggregate from several tools, export to excel/R, etc).

Analytics 67

Analytics Metrics Startup Database 67

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Some 51% of customers never approach a business again after one bad experience. That puts pressure on every interaction—and every missed opportunity—with potential customers, recent purchasers, and long-time users. Web chat is often the first impression for customer service interactions. Why you should care about chat.

Jamaica 112

Jamaica Database Conversion Cost 112

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

As mentioned in previously Spotlights, my goals are: Working with and investing in stellar teams delivering true vision with compelling products to paying customers for MEANINGFUL results. BlazingDB’s customers-to-date came knocking after experiencing failure with leading Data Warehouses such as Amazon’s Redshift and others.

Peru 58

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Enter a keyword to search the datasets database. Digital analysts can access raw, hit-level data (with full ecommerce implementation) that spans a full year of customer activity in the Google Merchandise store. Recently, Kaggle started offering it for private projects at no cost and with the option to use private datasets.

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. With for-profits, it must contribute to the bottom line and improve customer satisfaction. Voice of Customer. A common way to find insights on user experience: ask your customers. Does it work?

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

The message, the customer data, the ability to reach current and prospective customers, drive new sales as well as repeat sales, experiment with new ideas and offers, and so much more. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. What worked in terms of website content and customer behavior?

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. Here is some data from August 6, 2011: Israeli deal site Facebook Friends # of Sales Cost Revenue (in NIS) buy2.co.il A major aspect of the Israeli daily deal space are the daily deal aggregators.

Aggregator 102

Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

For a demonstration of this, try making incremental improvements to the average time it takes customers to pay in a cash flow calculator to see the outsize effects. Having easy access to this information makes it easy for business leaders to intervene in the case of chronically problematic customers, to ensure timely invoice payments. .

B2B 102

B2B Campaign Analytics Operations 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up. Easy to understand.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

A few companies implemented advice in there to positive effect, and one actually let me write about it, so here we go: Aligning Price With Customer Value. Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Because A/B testing considers only a part of the entire customer base (your sample), there are always uncertainties as to actual effects. The goal of the test, however, is to carry-over the effect measured by the test onto the entire customer base. Are customers using the new navigation exactly like the old one?

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. We’ve broken them down into three categories: Data collection; Customization; Integrations and data import/export.

Analytics 90

Analytics SQL Metrics Campaign 90

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Cons: It will cost you money. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder. Hire a programmer. We also tried this at Yipit and it didn’t work. Pros: You’ll have someone working on your project right away.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Hiring Ruby Founder 41

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts LiteAccounting – Invoice and track payment from your customers without a bunch of extra, useless features. Citrus – An online billing website that allows your customers to view, download and pay their invoices by credit card or direct debit.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. This is the blog post I needed to read. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

BeyondVC

MARCH 2, 2006

It is true that it costs exponentially less to launch a business today versus five years ago. Think about Zillow , Technorati , and services like Indeed which are dynamically driven services based on aggregating, crawling, and filtering millions of pieces of data. Well, now there is a choice. Other Web 2.0

Web 68

Web Open Source Architecture Database 68

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. They’d built a range of products that completely solved the problem—but they couldn’t reach their potential customers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Transformify

MAY 4, 2020

If in the past, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, contingent workforce management and Vendor Management Systems (VMS) were of interest mostly to enterprises, nowadays, companies of all sizes are shifting to on-demand workforce to optimize costs and increase efficiency. That’s what Transformify has to offer to its customers.

Demand 90

Demand Matching Aggregator Hiring 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. What does that mean?

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But, in 2018, incremental gains no longer cost $1 million either: You have more data; Storage is cheap; and. Massive, cloud-based repositories of customer interactions, often called data lakes, are the raw source material for predictive analytics applications. which customers will buy one or more products for a cross-sell or upsell.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Such is the power of being able to proactively identify which of your competitor's strategies are working well, where their current customers come from, and what specific tactics you should experiment with to create and advantage for yourself. but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Need a database/back end solution? Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. See those things around your legs, cloud customer? Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93