abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. Other writers and bloggers can help distribute information. This helps clear the business name and thus maintain its customer base. Online Image. Final Thoughts.

Social Media 207

Social Media Public Relations SEO Aggregator 207

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Pretty much with all products or services, it’s harder to sell your own product or service to new customers than selling someone else’s product or service. Wouldn’t it be better for the webshop to acquire those customers themselves to maximize profit margins? Customers don’t need to actually visit one of your offline stores.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing. Underwriting.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

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

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

SBA 79

SBA Affiliate Los Angeles Cap Table 79

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If you segment your A/B test results by browser version, you might discover that customers coming from the Safari web browser are converting much better than the average. A second segment we typically setup might include: existing customers vs. first-time customers. Why is conducting post-test segmentation important?

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

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. What makes these ventures interesting to me is how focused they are on their particular audiences of either potential users or customers. Two events this week in St. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. Discuss.

St. Louis 127

St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

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. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. CRM applications, often used in combination with data warehousing, eCommerce applications , and call centers, allow companies to gather and access customer information. What is CRM? Who is using CRM?

Management 116

Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

Internet 113

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 113

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As described by Tim Ferriss in Tools of Titans , to be a successful creator you don’t need millions of dollars, customers, or fans. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. 1000 Superfans or 100 True fans? Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

If your consulting service firm’s customers are happy and performance is good, then it shouldn’t be important if each consultant on the team spends their whole day working from bed if that’s what they prefer. The catch is if those standards are introduced, there won’t be a team to manage anyway. What this instead requires is a mindset shift.

Management 150

Management Aggregator Audio Employee 150

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services. After all, without customers, there is no revenue. How many customers are in the market? Can these customers pay for your products or services?

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator. Related Posts: Content As an Essential Strategy Installing a Selling System 3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You 5 Ways to Get Rockin Reviews Content is a verb, content is a strategy?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Alaska RSS Audio 76

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

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Organic landing pages report. " : ).

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That girl now has now has 200,000 paying customers and a profitable run rate of over $40M within 18 months of raising capital. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. How do you like them apples?

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

“ While there are other players in the market, our global customers have been asking us to expand our services here for sometime already as they appreciate the modern and flexible approach HRS brings to corporate travel.”. Ragge also predicts that many travel startups in the space are likely to not exist in the next few years.

Singapore 171

Singapore Asia Germany Aggregator 171

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

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. But think of this.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

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. Do more and more people use Feature X?

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

If potential customers think that they are going to get something free if they close a deal with you, then they are much more likely to seal the deal. In fact, it will be limiting them to potential customers in your local area. Once you are online, you will be able to appeal to a wider section of customers and clients.

Revenue 100

Revenue Distribution Aggregator Small Business 100

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

A lot of marketers are doing well in terms of authoring and distributing their content. If we transform that into a journey instead, we can do a better job of keeping visitors and customers engaged in a branded experience that lets us understand the buyer personas we’re targeting from the information we gather through metrics.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product? Feeling Good.

Business Model 236

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 236

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Traditional distribution services no longer work. Stop spending money on aggregation services that, at best, syndicate your content without driving any real eyeballs. – Firas Kittaneh , Amerisleep. When you pitch, make sure your story is customized to them and is something they personally would be interested in writing about.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Here’s how Nextiny ’s channel appears on their website: Users can customize the look of a channel (e.g. DailyMotion reports 300 million active users; they watch more than 3.5 billion videos per month. views per person).

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

While other industries often speak of being “customer centric” or “putting the customer first,” the U.S. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. One could go even farther, and suggest that the U.S.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Do you think a multi-channel distribution strategy is important to guard against unforeseen changes? (51:30

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265