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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I They value Trust, both internal (employees) and external (customers and shareholders).

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

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. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Click Maps. Image Source). Attention maps.

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

ConversionXL

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? What are your business requirements?

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

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.