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

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 155

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 155

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. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Traditional distribution services no longer work. Expensive Agencies. Press Release Wires.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

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. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“This investment will enable us to go to market faster and bring new technology offerings to our customers across all three media types.”. In 2010, the company became a preferred content aggregator for the Apple iBookstore and is one of the largest providers of book content to Apple.

Aggregator 54

Aggregator New York Distribution Security 54

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I'll close with a custom attribution model into which you can insert all your biases – sorry, I mean expertise – and get something better than good to make incremental progress from where you are today. Customized/Personalized Attribution Model. Last AdWords Click Attribution Model. Linear Attribution Model.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. 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. By now, a few trends are emerging.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Performance.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free. A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Or compressing my experience into custom reports and advanced segments I've shared. You'll also be able to create your own custom reports, advanced segments, filters, share with the world everything you create, and all kinds of fun stuff. It is a collection of advanced segments, custom reports, and dashboards.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. In the olden days this would be done with a custom and personalized website. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Find aggregators. I have a customer for you, you just need to sign up for free here..

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Outcome #1: To attract "prospects" / new customers. You can accomplish these goals: ~ Get an optimal understanding of what kind of people you ended up attracting to your website (look at primary purpose & distribution). You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

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. They never stop paying."

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. 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.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

" Or, "Profitability, it is so sexy, just focus on Customer Lifetime Value, no, sorry, I mean Profitability." I wonder what the distribution looks like? Conversion Rate solves for the company and Task Completion Rate solves for the customer. ." Or "don't worry about anything except Facebook Likes."

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

12: Almost all reporting is off custom reports. #11: 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." 12: Almost all reporting is off custom reports. Creating custom reports is hard work.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

AtlasCT – (Atlas Cartographic Technologies LTD) offers a wide range of products for LBS applications and services, with the ability to provide a complete solution, adjusted to the customer needs, for all types of platforms, with remote or standalone. We provide our customers with a combination of sophisticated data analytics techniques.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

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. e-commerce and m-commerce – more ways to interact with shoppers on the go; (Check out Feedbox).

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53