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. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. A couple more tips on benchmarking using your own web analytics data, this time the performance of your content on your site – mobile or desktop, site or app. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. Cubie: a free messenger for creative users to chat and draw.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

Every day my Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of discussions about music, fashion, electronics, travel and other highly valuable verticals. Here are some ideas: Aggregating all the similar product names into a “comparison” unit with pricing and availability from top merchants. ” What a crock. Please help me.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The average mobile viewing rates are 40 minutes per session.) Adjust sizes to be mobile friendly or accommodate those with poor eyesight. Display the video in 16:9 format for desktop viewers, then automatically resize to square or vertical for mobile viewers. All that said—YouTube has its downsides. Overlay text.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

look at mobile and desktop separately). 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.

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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. As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

look at mobile and desktop separately). 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. Click Maps. Image Source. Attention maps.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Conversion optimization for mobile apps is getting more sophisticated. Don’t get me wrong, an install is still an important milestone in the mobile consumer journey, but it should only be a step en route to your final destination – that is, creating an app with sustainable commercial value. At first, click through rate was key.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Marketing automation technology designed specifically for SMBs has gone a long way toward leveling the playing field between small and enterprise level competitors across a variety of industries and market verticals.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. the Untouched Vertical. Private Equity Software and Services Directory.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

How to Improve Mobile App Retention Through Customization. In 2011, Fred Wilson cited the 30/10/10 ratio as a “law of web/mobile physics,” generally true regardless of business or industry—that is, 30% of customers will use a service each month, 10% will use it each day, and as many as 10% of daily users will be using it at any given time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, and let’s not forget to throw in the aggregators that are out there doing the 10 best blah, blah, blah in their city. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results. It becomes a very active landscape. It seems like Google right now likes them.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly understand what’s going in mobile gaming, SaaS, marketplaces, etc? 1) Industry reports.

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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. Time shift demand and supply.

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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

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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. Note: You must look at the one device category at a time – so apply a device segments first: desktop only, tablet only and mobile only. It’s proven to work across industries and business models.

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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. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups to be mobile-carrier dependent. Company : Wesabe. Company : Lookery.

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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. The future will be more about leased living as the friction in doing so is reduced by mobile computing, instant knowledge of availability, and social / digital ratification of participants.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Content Consumption Competitive Analysis. + #OMG Mobile, Where's Mobile Data! How does any tool have access to your website or mobile app data? OMG Mobile, Where's Mobile Data! This past thanksgiving 52% of all online traffic was mobile per IBM. You can segment that data by desktop or mobile.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Bill Gurley : Great.

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