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.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 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. produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. VC Firm. $ 17% (13 / 80).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device. Develop individual personas based on the data.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. This means that our products take a lot of time and money to develop, and might have slow adoption rates. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook. Back to Snap.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. I said this many times publicly before it ever started happening with Tweetdeck and Seesmic.

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Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. SupplyHog: developing a new way to purchase building materials. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product. Business owners and entrepreneurs are flocking to a variety of platforms to help give their businesses a needed financial injection from the public.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality.

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Fox, BBC, Vice, Univision) who have the development resources to take advantage of JW Player. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming. So far, Vimeo has kept us pretty nimble as course content creation has developed over the years. Adapt video sizes.

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. Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning 4. This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

They were developed by Cormac Kinney in the mid-1990s to try to allow traders to beat financial markets. In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. People who buy and use a piece of software may legitimately be interested in hearing from the developer/CEO.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Were they vertically integrated ? Free form, then aggregation, then organization, then structure, then words, then metaphors, then narrative, then publish. Develop & refine a process.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

They were developed by Cormac Kinney in the mid-90’s to try to allow traders to beat financial markets. Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to quickly take in the aggregate click data and see broad trends. So how are heat maps useful in the pursuit of higher conversion rates?

Algorithm 48

Algorithm Analytics Aggregator Vertical 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . From a startup’s point of view, Abaca helps a company identify in a standardized way their level of development. the Untouched Vertical.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. The integration of Melio by Vinosmith is a good example.

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B2B Cloud Europe 62

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. I’m seeing a full blown 3rd party developer API built on top of Twitter Cards in near future. Intent is well understood in this traffic and the signal is strong. Chris McCoy.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

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. Understanding when and how to act on a lead is critical.

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. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? See: Gigwalk.

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Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. Whether it’s factory workers in China, tech developers in Austin, celebrity beauty influencers in Los Angeles, or angel investors in New York, I find a way to engage, communicate, and interact. Tell us about something you love.

Architecture 62

Architecture Los Angeles Austin Angel Investor 62

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

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Europe Cloud API 83

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Software developer Patrick McKenzie aka @Patio11 (easily one of my favorite marketers to follow and learn from) asserts that 40-60% of users who sign up for a free trial of almost every software or SaaS application will use it once and never come back. Don’t limit your testing to flight risk customers. The Execution. image source.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As someone who has been interested in the AI space for over 20 years, I am more excited than ever before about how advances in hardware and software, if developed responsibly and with awareness of broader societal impacts of the technology, will enable us to live better lives.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. You just get successful. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 327

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Support series of one-to-many relationships.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8 The number of companies funded has also declined by 6%.

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Venture Capital Vertical Massachusetts eCommerce 79

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

As someone who has been interested in the AI space for over 20 years, I am more excited than ever before about how advances in hardware and software, if developed responsibly and with awareness of broader societal impacts of the technology, will enable us to live better lives.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. Is 3 hours of developer time more or less than $10k? A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click. It’s proven to work across industries and business models.

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. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Each app in each vertical is a world of its own. You can increase spend with high performers and reduce or remove spend with sources that underperformed – not merely in developing installs but rather in generating users that actually drove real value to your app. Stage 1: Which In-App Events Correlate With Your Goals?

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A rule of thumb I have developed is if a site gets more than 5 million unique visitors a month, then there is a sufficient signal from panel-based data. Many vendors now aggregate this real customer data and present it in the form of benchmarks that you can use to index your own performance. 5: Benchmarks from Web Analytics Vendors.

Analytics 123

Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 123

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Create content to answer hundreds of these questions, and, in aggregate, you can reach a huge audience of relevant prospects. As well as attracting visitors from within the Quora network, answers regularly rank for dozens of search keywords—in aggregate, that’s often hundreds of potential prospects reading each of your answers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. 19% of people showed some horizontal correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking.

Metrics 65

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Algorithm 65

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

In developed markets Wifi and broadband are now seen as a right, rather than an option, to the point where many consumers claim that not having it is a modern form of social abuse. While developing markets are jumping computers all together and taking themselves out of technology poverty and riding on the coat tails of the smart phone.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123