VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. In the past, if you wanted to learn from the best thinkers in Economics, you’d have to buy a subscription to the Economist or the FT. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Think of that challenge like competing for limited venture capital. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion. That’s over 500 successes in less than ten years.

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

The latest type of solution is called a “web profile aggregator” built as a portal to a group of similar applications or premium content which can be accessed through a common login. There are numerous single sign-on products on the market, such as PassLogix, AccessMaster, Entrust/SignOn, MetaPass SSO, OneSign, and SecureLogin.

Startup 199

Startup Non-Compete Aggregator Security 199

Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

No, those next levels of competitive business striving - toward double digit and beyond revenue growth, real and tangible profit, meaningful asset aggregation, and toward brands, cultures, and reputations that stand the test of time. And of our burning desire to compete and win. population works in the private sector. As professionals.

Balance Sheet 48

Balance Sheet Jordan Non-Compete Aggregator 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Non-Monetary Incentives. It’s the best way to compete for the talent you need. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. That’s why so many entrepreneurs try to leverage equity.

Curation 61

Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

From the seller’s perspective, the first step in connection with the sale of his company is the negotiation and execution of a confidentiality agreement (sometimes referred to as a “non-disclosure agreement” or an “NDA”) with the potential buyer. on a need-to-know basis. Accordingly, the seller should insert a basket (i.e.,

Non-disclosure Agreement 101

Non-disclosure Agreement Acquisition New York City Non-Compete 101

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. Especially for non-accredited investors, as most don’t even know what crowdfunding means as an investment opportunity. The rise of the non-accredited investor as a vital stakeholder for both platforms and issuers.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

There is an aging workforce in the insurance industry; we have a need to hire both insurance specialists and those in non-insurance roles like IT, Marketing, Finance and HR. We’re competing against younger industries and start-ups as well as established legacy companies armed with name recognition and brand appeal.

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

From the results fo the aggregate behaviours, real time videos and heatmaps you can mend any deficiencies and make it easier for visitors to your site to become buyers. #4 3 Dan on 01.12.10 at 5:32 pm To optimise conversions you should employ a web analytics provider such as clicktale to show you how your customers enagage eith your site.

Software Review 55

Software Review Marketing Startup PPC 55

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. These salesmen used their insight into what their customers really needed to make the sale and then deliver something of even greater value. They are closing orders.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! 3 Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail. Podcast: Competitive Analysis Best Practices, Competency Judgement Model. Web Analytics: A Puzzle or A Mystery?

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. In sports, you always want to play and compete at the stage that is right for you. It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). For bonus points you can analyze Mobile Search traffic performance with Mobile Non-Search traffic performance. Never Compare Apples to Watermelons. Very easy to create.

Salary 130

Salary Analytics Green eCommerce 130

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Extra work for you to download the data and aggregate it, but it is very valuable data so put in the extra effort. The Ad Groups view is pretty helpful from an aggregated perspective. I understand. Win big.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

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. As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

OpenAI is a for-profit, running a venture fund, etc — what types of ‘partnership risk’ is there in backing alternatives who are competing with OpenAI funded startups. AI ‘Middleware’ In a multi-base model world, won’t there be some value created by dynamically switching between models depending on the use case?

Artificial Inteligence 66

Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete Generative AI IP 66

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget.

Small Business 125

Small Business Entrepreneur Non-Compete IP 125

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One way to verify is to click on Traffic Sources > Campaigns > Clicks tab to see the non-zero impressions from AdWords. This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve?

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Panelists do not believe there is sustainable truly proprietary flow (though I think they are defining this too narrowly as sales with only 1 buyer) Platinum looks at as direct- (20%) and indirect-sourced (80%), not proprietary vs. non-proprietary.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You are a news site like The New York Times or you are a non-profit like Idealist or you are the team running Google Maps. You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. I am using Compete for the above report. A fairly low bar. What was it after? Web Analytics.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Even A/B tests with well-conceived test concepts can lead to non-significant results and erroneous interpretations. The probability that the tests will compete with one another tends to be low here. If the assumption is wrong, there is a risk of long test runtimes and non-valid results. Why does this work? Bootstrapping.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

They were very concerned with competing with free. The advantages: Trivial to buy for non-technical stakeholders: name the plans correctly and they won’t even need to count servers to do things correctly. (“We’re an enterprise! This is true even though the revenue per customer is non-normal. Michael Selik.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What I mean by that is we have cases today where we have clients, large national brands that have local locations and they’re competing with non local results for their products and their services. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results.

SEO 54

SEO Vertical Non-Compete Search 54

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Snapchat and Periscope just scratch the surface of what’s to come as far as aggregate viewing numbers and programmed or live event-based content are concerned. podcasts ), to less visual consumer-to-consumer communication, to device control.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Snapchat and Periscope just scratch the surface of what’s to come as far as aggregate viewing numbers and programmed or live event-based content are concerned. podcasts ), to less visual consumer-to-consumer communication, to device control.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Each in a small way makes life easy for someone working at Google, but taken in aggregate, in my opinion, add up to a big advantage for the company. You have to be passionate about your cause and be competent at it. PS: Couple other (non Google, but leadership) related posts: Three “spire’s” of Great Leadership.

Green 139

Green Atlanta Employee San Francisco 139

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Let's check the big gorilla: Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals. That's because this can be a non ecommerce metric. "Purchase" Great KPI's for non-ecommerce website. So awesome!

Metrics 123

Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The central team is responsible for analytics frameworks, centralized contracts (tools, consultants), for aggregated company level analysis, complex project execution (experimentation, media mix models etc) and for setting standards. To provide a hyper-fast non-nuanced summary… please invest in: 1. Repeat it the next day.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. No lying 3 Pitch the technical puzzles attempting to solve 99.9999% of non-technical founders/co-founders get 2 out of 3 of these points wrong.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

. ~ Three Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail. Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. She is technically super competent (regex anyone?). Create a new custom segment for my non-branded keywords. Why Segmentation?

Analytics 105

Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Once we make this leap, certification can play a more active role in helping the higher education system clearly convey to students what skills and competencies they should pursue if their primary objective is to optimize their economic futures. Another key step will involve aggregating this data. Diplomas: Time for an Upgrade.

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

And social media gave them all the ability to market their products in non-traditional ways. But I saw that there was a clear and emerging trend: technology was helping small businesses compete with large corporations. Eventually, they could totally disrupt these traditional organizations because they could outmaneuver them.

Fractional CTO 147

Fractional CTO CTO Hire China Silicon Valley 147

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions. Conclusion.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

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. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

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. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Our personal data is being, bought, bartered and sold with every log in.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Logos from prominent companies mattered more than those from non-prominent companies. Create Calculated Metrics (CLV, CPS, Non-Bounce, CAC). Enhanced E-Commerce.

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48