YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations 2. Yelp (the most popular local review app and powers Apple Maps). Facebook (has more than 3x the reviews of Yelp). Every time you get a review, you should know about it almost immediately either via email or preferably via text or mobile app notification.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. internet. (6). software. (10). Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. Friday, March 12, 2010. Add RSS feed.

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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. 5) Due diligence. 2) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. an ad platform) and are accessible anywhere else their code loads. They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g.,

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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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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry. Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008!

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

M ore and more consumer electronics products now include features which leverage internet connectivity – current generation gaming devices, entertainment systems, and of course smart handsets are a few examples that demonstrate this trend. Eyecon offers interface: Pick, Plug'n Play.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As Internet shopping became prominent in the 90s, there was a distinct line drawn between brick-and-mortar and Internet retailers. As brick-and-mortar stores started seeing sales slip, they plunged headfirst into the Internet, thus creating click-and-mortar operations. Designed in collaboration with Code & Theory.

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nickoneill.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

As described on the Pipes website : Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Zapier distills things even better: Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Back in 2007 Yahoo! unveiled a project called Pipes.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad.

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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. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Applications are due by June 15th. Two events this week in St.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

According to Cisco , by 2015, one million minutes of video – the equivalent of 674 days – will cross the internet every second (!) 1) Dealery , the daily deal aggregator gets on the evening news. 1) Dealery , the daily deal aggregator gets on the evening news. Amazing, no? 6) Gettaxi , the ultimate taxi application.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

You might also notice that people using the Firefox browser hardly convert at all when they see variation B: this could mean that there are some technical issues with the front-end code that make the treatments not work on Firefox. This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. Pro tip: fixed beats broken.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2016

In fact, I often hear many experienced web designers and SEO specialists that either don’t use schema or have difficulty implementing this newer type of SEO website code – and this is understandable once you start browsing through the thousands of pages at Schema.org. Aggregate Star Review Ratings in search results.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2019

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! Google Reviews. Google My Business is the house for Google reviews. Don’t stress out about a bad review. Driving Traffic to Your GMB Page.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? BA : Yeah.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, a key principle of Web accessibility is designing Web sites and software that are flexible to meet different user needs, preferences, and situations. There are three ways you can evaluate your site’s current level of accessibility: automated tools, expert reviewers, and user testing. Report the evaluation findings.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Although this gap is decreasing due to the rise of mobile website optimization , conversion rates for these websites are still poor when compared to their desktop counterparts. These users may be visiting to check inventory, look at reviews, read blog articles, or even compare pricing. Aggregate Audience Data.

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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. The average Safeway store sells about $25M of merchandise annually, but generates about $2.7M

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Can I send you a review copy?

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. Every startup wanted to believe they could get acquired like YouTube for $1.4

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. 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. You should sign up for our newsletter here. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big!

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. 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. ” Put another way: Maples is right.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). One Datacenter.

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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. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Have a great 2015, Steve.

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. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Have a great 2015, Steve.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software. Greatest Hits.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. You can tell they actually read the book, and it was a really positive review. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. That ink smell.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Loom doesn’t require an Internet browser; Soapbox, on the other hand, is a Chrome extension. Implementation is technical (i.e. developers required) but scalable.

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