David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc 5) Due diligence.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. We’re about to ship next week.” or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.

Silicon Valley 206

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 206

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

CXL’s own Kyle Brodeur, who manages thousands of videos for CXL Institute courses , likes it for similar reasons: Vimeo has the cheapest cost for storing our videos with the feature sets we require. Brightcove includes: Interactive content; Transcription (with their SubPly partnership); Digital rights management. Brightcove.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Once you can call a self-driving Uber/Lyft, the cost of transportation will fall ~75% (current driver take-rate), and probably 85–90% in the long run as cars are re-engineered to be designed as taxis first. Scale is everything.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. Folks scamming you for the incentive are a — cheap — cost of doing business.). And it costs businesses real money. And lets not forget the cost. How are you reading it right now?

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

trillion in annual global productivity , and global payments company Klarna recently said it saves $10 million in costs every year by using GenAI to generate images and reduce their reliance on external marketing partners. The companies created in this stage will likely start from a vertical, like video or email, and evolve over time.

Software 85

Software Sales Marketing Vertical 85

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

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.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Were they vertically integrated ? Why do cable & satellite companies force us to take content “bundles&# that cost more than we want and have content we don’t watch. If so, why? Did they dominate one or two areas?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

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. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. When looking closely at the verticals above, they found that two forces were at play—instant gratification and customization.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.

Artificial Inteligence 127

Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Key-based partitioning.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

You could have an in-house user research lab with fancy neuroscience technology and 25 researchers, actively track 5000 metrics across 500 segments and what not – but it would not only cost a lot (likely way more than the profit from testing wins), it would be distracting and silly. Using Google Tag Manager. B2B and B2C.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. Company : Wesabe. Company : EventVue.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

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. Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again. This might just change.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Broadtec ‘s MYTV integrated broadcast management system incorporates sophisticated planning, logistics, rights management, Commercials, media production & inventory. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Might be kinda large market.,

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

But, more than that, the cost of providing digital only services (like photos, or literally anything in the cloud) is extremely low. Provide a list of target countries to your management team where new opportunities exist (as identified by your competitors). but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. What got you interested and how have you been studying the system? Bill Gurley : Great.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43