Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? Lower performing VCs will disappear faster and new entrants will differentiate themselves. Valuations. Fund Sizes Got Too Big. Firms raised too much money.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Bing is very open to 3 rd party elements in their index that create a differentiated user experience. How does someone get access to you? (22:00-33:00). 22:00-33:00).

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. These are better described as examples of bad management than too much capital but at some level they are one in the same.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For companies making a food product you must clearly differentiate your product in a crowded market place. Renske Lynde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Food System 6 Accelerator. Then get the right equipment and proper infrastructure; gain efficiencies – get a better margin. Monica Jain, Fish 2.0.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

This is even more important if you’re managing a “pack” of websites. Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Here’s what Google suggests—and three workarounds to manage potential limitations of that recommendation. What are your business requirements? (For

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that technology to its competitors ! Self-driving cars and electric are self-reinforcing in the long run.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

You can set up a custom tracking solution with Google Tag Manager or rely on one of many software tools. If form completions are a big issue—but you have no idea why—you have two options: Use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to create a custom tracking system. Get a form analytics tool to help manage or scale the process.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Management Team. In that case, you can dispense with details about the management team, funding requirements, and traction, and instead treat the executive summary as an overview of the strategic direction of the company, to ensure that all team members are on the same page. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition?

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

I spend my time asking big companies to evolve their traditionally reporting-centric approaches to data use and expand them to see data & analytics in the context of the differentiating experiences and products they make possible – it’s a big ask and I’m constantly trying to solve for these unique challenges.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Panel 1: Creating The Right Deal Flow — Creating & Managing Sustainable, Replicable Strategies. Question : How do generalist PE funds differentiate and get in the advisers list? Intermediaries.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

What will the engineering teams at ‘non-native’ adopters need to look like in order to successfully integrate, manage and compete with the native apps Will businesses who believe they have proprietary data to may help improve base models be able to sell that data and/or ‘pay it in’ to the model in return for discounted usage?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Traffic Differentials. Using Share of Search or Traffic Differentials are just two of many ways in which you can measure if your branding campaigns are indeed crushing your competition. Web Analytics. Notice the competitive trends?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When an acquirer looks at your company, if your gross margin is dropping consistently year over year, they’re going to draw the conclusion that you’ve lost your marketing differentiation. But a lot more of them have the second point of differentiation, which is better marketing, right? So it’s important.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Finally, and only lastly, I blame the management teams. Tag Management. First, if you are going to touch the code on your site make sure you get a tag management tool right now. Get a tag management tool. The Google Tag Manager is a good one, you don't need to use Google Analytics to use it. strategies).

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.)

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

But, unfortunately, that basic setup won’t allow you to differentiate among: One-time orders; First-time subscription orders; Recurring orders. Why you must differentiate among order types. Aggregates lie. At this point, all order data is still aggregated. Obviously, we’re biased toward the latter solution.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. Revenue-management obsession even has a negative impact on how quickly healthcare organizations embrace technology – technology that could radically improve the customer experience. Billing and collection in the U.S.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

My personal belief is that since everything comes down to the product, the best founders are product managers. To this day, as we approach 600 people at Fab, we personally interview every manager and we still personally review and approve or disapprove most hires throughout our entire organization. I can’t imagine it any other way. ?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That field is readable by a Google Analytics script (or any other script, e.g., Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, etc.) Aggregate costs and results in a tool like Google Data Studio or BigQuery. A web-based tool to define, manage, and enforce UTM naming conventions. that runs on the destination page. utm_content.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. It also helps weed out the weak links without much management interference. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2019

The best sales forecast method will vary according to how you manage information, how much past data you have access to, and what special factors drive your business. Instead, she summarizes and aggregates enough to make a useful forecast that she can track, review, and revise as needed with the ongoing business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

In their early days they had an enormously effective blog on the topic of personal financial management. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. I wanted to differentiate. Mint.com is the second result. Some search.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Experimentation is essentially risk management. The reason wasn’t because the airline was inattentive or didn’t care about its customers, but because the airline’s differentiating factor was its low price-point and on-time service. Will managers be paid a stipend for participating in a test that might damage their bottom line?

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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 Nothing is perfect, and we might have missed some great companies.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

There’s a whole management feature, that we call the ‘Scoreboard’, we’ve got industry benchmarks, we’ve got features that are going to help you implement your plan, because you can schedule milestones and get reminders about getting those done. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. One sweet feature that differentiates segment creation in Google Analytics from that of other vendors is the ability to do real time QA (quality control) and test the segment you have created. Why Segmentation?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

And you can start to put that in Excel or whatever and aggregate the most popular responses. So that resourcefulness and taking some of the tips we talked about today, that’s what can really differentiate you, regardless of what your company sells or does. It could be any way of communication. John: So true.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2013

We will see an increase in self-management and collaboration. There is clear room in this space for innovation, aggregation, and higher efficiency. Expect design to be a differentiator this coming year. Despite the regulatory difficulties, 2013 will surely be an exciting year for healthcare.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Iridion – Optimization Workflow Management for free. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. It is an awesome example of the power of implicit data.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% And they get a few million.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Flash Networks.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. Companies that gamble on creating a differentiated experience for those markets could potentially find themselves on this list next year. What differentiated product, service or experience are you providing them? But how many sites do you use on a regular basis? who are your customers?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

I am the CEO & Content Lead of a media company that aims to aggregate content on culture and history. Along with our teams, the initial vision and strategy to put vulnerability and privilege management together remains the greatest point of competitive differentiation.

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