The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In this Internet age, a company sells products or services via an online store, app, or subscription service. 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. Customers don’t need to actually visit one of your offline stores.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2022

From managing one-off vendors, to aggregating payments, to end-to-end billing automation, a cutting-edge vendor management system ( VMS) may drive efficiencies, cut admin work and improve the relationship with vendors, service providers and independent contractors. But first things first - What is vendor management software?

Affiliate 98

Affiliate Demand Software Review Software 98

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

It used to be that a business would gain customers only from the neighborhood surrounding its location. Now, thanks to internet technology, your customers can be from around your state — or around the world. by John Donovan, CEO of Bizfi.

Technical Review 100

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat.

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Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., clearing items you left in your cart, forcing you to log in again). Image source ).

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Caching Algorithm Advertising Metadata 140

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand.

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Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Custom Everything. The reason is simple: why leave the comfort of your own home when you can get something custom made to your exact size for less? Customized Outfit Planning. . Custom Designs. More and more companies these days are allowing customers to represent themselves through custom designs.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. You can get more findings from the report.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Nithya, together with a small team, developed an Internet-connected temperature sensor which travels with the vaccine fridge through the cold chain. And 75% of vaccines in the developing world show signs of freezing, with an estimated one-fourth to one-third of all vaccines which are administered being ineffective. Work is love made visible.

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Bangladesh Silicon Valley Global India 133

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 328

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.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

Press releases may have been the main thing back in the day where printing was the way to pass information and before the internet became mainstream. People today are bombarded by excessive information through social media and the internet. The internet has not made press releases obsolete. Grabbing Attention. Has Greater Reach.

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Social Media Public Relations SEO Aggregator 207

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?

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Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Customer expectations are the highest right now as they want the best in taste, ambiance, and safety. You may even start your own food app apart from collaborating with an aggregator. Consider investing in a Food and Nutritional Analytics tool that takes you a step ahead with compliance and customer trust.

Cloud 136

Cloud Aggregator Social Media Analytics 136

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

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.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. I would tend to agree. Completely agree.

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Internet EC2 Java API 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?

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. million CPUs.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

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. The 1% Rule (source: Wikipedia ).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. A lot of eyeballs. The Data Hoarder.

Media 180

Media Artificial Inteligence Los Angeles Algorithm 180

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 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

From knowing what customers want to buy and what they can buy, selecting the right places and platforms for product sourcing, building optimized inventory , and keeping shelves full of your best-selling products, setting up your retail store is an in-depth process. . Check each supplier’s references. Evaluate the options. Ask for samples.

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Product Aggregator Hiring Audience 152

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget.

Partner 171

Partner Employee Non-Compete IP 171

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The first goal of the company was to invent an Internet-enabled biometric monitoring device—called the HEALTHspot®— that would allow people to privately track their weight loss and blood pressure results and earn cash rewards for sustained improvements in their health.

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Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 50

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2019

This new feature on Google My Business allows you to display a calendar of open spots, and prospects and customers can book directly through your Google My Business page. Sometimes when your fans get to it first, they inadvertently provide incorrect information about your business, and you don’t want that out there on the internet!

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Naming SEO 78

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. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 2) Raise capital. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had seen the beginning of this evolution during the Internet boom…my first venture investment, in 2000, was in a company called Yodlee, which later went on to IPO and was eventually bought by Envestnet. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector.

Disintermediation 69

Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give. Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The 15 Best Startup Accelerators in the U.S. ”

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Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

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. " For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. How do you like them apples?

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

While VR is more immersive, and Meta owns Oculus, the first mass scale VR headset, AR is more accessible (to anyone with a smartphone) and is a good place to start with an immersive, 3D Internet experience. trillion times in aggregate ( source ). million lenses, which have been viewed over 3.5 Snap Spectacles. Magic Leap.

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Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service? These are fantastic new markets for U.S. domestic GNP growth couldn’t touch. Your India strategy? •

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Africa Brazil China India 104

The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

As we all know people are increasingly accessing the internet and shopping from their smartphones (one of our more recent investments has 81% of it’s traffic from mobile), and within mobile people are spending a larger and larger share of their time in apps at the expense of browsers. So how will discovery work on mobile?

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Mobile Aggregator Vertical 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If YouTube really cares about dominating the future of Internet video it should take less because at 45% it will only encourage video producers to seek alternate distribution and will make it easier for competitors to emerge. Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). Sound interesting?

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Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

. > The Larger Market: The Online Review infrastructure industry is highly under exposed in the overall Internet marketing world. Even expert Internet marketers are pretty unaware of the market and its details. > Company Summary: Saas Product launched, several Fortune 1000 customers, currently growing.

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