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. DiningCircle.com is aimed at handling real-time Web-enabled restaurant reservations. It is all about the Web. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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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. In the traditional marketing parlance, Google directed web traffic represents bottom-of-the-funnel users who are ready to take an action now. Year of Social Utilities.

Internet 108

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 108

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. Your experimental controls, Stewart says, need to be equal: sample size, performance range, and distribution of outlier behavior.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

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

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. 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

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in. Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7.

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Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. T]he consumer web has matured. T]he consumer web has matured.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

But when it comes to the web, they all seem to leave their creativity, passion, and brilliant minds at home. Why leave your passion behind when it comes to the web? The web can sell product. The web can infect your potential customers with the passion you feel for your job. The web can really do … so much.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

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. Since that day, I’ve been exploring how raw data can be a web analyst’s best friend. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Event timing.

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

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.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? Creating product mock-ups , wireframes, etc.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Rather than needing to do capacity planning, gather data internally, and then use a custom-built web application to determine your pricing, you can just read the grid and make a decision in 30 seconds. Speaking of custom-built web applications to determine pricing, the best product with the worse pricing strategy is Heroku.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The top down era of one size fits all.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. Aggregated search engine level analysis. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Twitter in Driving Application Distribution - Twitter has become the new source of driving viral adoption.

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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.

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SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Wavii uses machine learning to crawl the Web and extract key facts from news stories to present to readers on-the-fly.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?

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. Now you have a trusted recommendation to try a service and you get free distribution to all employees. See: Github , OpenTable. See: MyEatClub , Zimride. See: Gigwalk.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models. But with media-based businesses, the distribution of outcomes is markedly different in part because the value capture by new disruptive startups is different.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Transformify

DECEMBER 17, 2018

These wallets empower clients to cooperate with the blockchain, to send and get reserves, monitor the staying aggregate, and some even have swapping highlights to change over digital forms of money for another. Web/Exchange-based/Cloud Wallets. Simply plug it in to a web empowered gadget to exchange resources. Hardware Wallets.

Aggregator 40

Aggregator Security Web Distribution 40

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! If you don't stink completely, things on the the web always go up and to the right over time – the argument is simply about the slope of the line and short term fluctuations. See Page 269. :).

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. All numbers in aggregate are at best marginally useful, and that rule applies to this one too. All of the above is still kind of at an aggregate level.

Analytics 136

Analytics Metrics Search Aggregator 136

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

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally. Perhaps thats a fallacy?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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