ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

Conversion 133

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals.

Open Source 102

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle.

B2B 133

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

Portfolio 60

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

For high-value employees, there’s also the knowledge-engineering paradox : The greater the expertise , the harder it is to extract that knowledge. The best way to extract knowledge used in decision-making is to reverse engineer the process. The aggregate KA score would be computed as E × LE. The decision-making process.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

Affiliate 134

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

Search 154

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Adjudica.com sells its group-medical-cost monitoring tool as a Web-based service to large health plan operators. Louis areas, was another reason for starting up his engineering team there.

St. Louis 127

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. It took two years, but a team finally won. We do all the heavy lifting.

Analytics 131

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this.

Chad 112

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. and each book costs $375 retail. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Costa Rica 114

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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. Films inspire us.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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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. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. It’s similar to the Outbrain example above and any search engine marketing example. Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. Darren Herman.

Social Media 47

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

The good news is: If you use the new Smart Stats by VWO or Optimizely’s Stats Engine , the procedures to correct for an increasing probability of error for multiple test variants are applied automatically. In test 2 you change the Recommendation engine algorithm, such that you primarily show sale articles here. Theory and practice.

Distribution 48

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

what distribution channel? We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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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.

San Francisco 113

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

Advertising 284

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

Technical Review 78

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups. Not to mention providing the capital for growth.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. The good news is that, in the digital world, brand development does not have to cost an insane amount of money.

Bootstrapping 85

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. Controls - reverse engineered Quicken file format - sold to Microsoft for import into Microsoft Money. Salesforce is good for distribution - can access their user base.

Internet 150

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform. The cost is only $10 per month, and they hope to attract the SMB market which currently isn’t served by Cisco or Juniper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. involved before we go into production.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then there have been entrepreneurs who sort of don't do anything in the realm of biotech but can somehow help with logistics or distribution or whatever that like, "I am going to ask my friends who do run biotech companies or hospitals or whatever, what they need me to do and then all of our plans are out the window.

Silicon Valley 68

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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.

Media 145

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Allot Communications.

Mobile 103

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

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. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls.

Technical Review 93

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. During this year they.

Cofounder 89

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Google App Engine â?? free, distributed source code control management system. Check them out. No need for back end! But thatâ??s

Software Review 53

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? My distribution above is a good starting point. Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. All three challenges are important.

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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. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. · zettasun manufactures efficient commercial rooftop solar panels using proprietary optical technology to dramatically reduce the cost of solar electricity to be at or below grid costs. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent. TopSchool, Inc.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Being featured on sites like Search Engine Journal (SEJ), Moz, Entrepreneur, and HubSpot is solid social proof. For instance, my post on Moz about the economics of link building, which included our link-building rates to help readers compare costs, brought me a number of inquiries. There’s also a chance for referral traffic and leads.

B2B 142

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