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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. Two, revenue. Many business owners today really think of financials as being about the past, how much revenue have we had, how much cost did we have. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? My distribution above is a good starting point. All three challenges are important.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

It has been a great way to immediately influence revenue for my ecommerce engagements. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. This report is the only place you can see distribution of days to purchase for Assisted Conversions. Where you have CPA, it is is an even more valuable signal.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. Acquisition: CPA. You need to know, obsessively, what you get for it.

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