Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. The integration of Melio by Vinosmith is a good example.

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B2B Cloud Europe 62

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

To make a living (defined as $100K a year), former Wired editor Kevin Kelly suggests, you only need 1,000 true fans that will each buy products from you for $100 a year. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. 1000 Superfans or 100 True fans? Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans?

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. Categorizing keyword modifiers is especially useful for sites that have hundreds or thousands of similar pages, like review sites with city-specific content or sites with hundreds of similar products. Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents?

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Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They’d built a range of products that completely solved the problem—but they couldn’t reach their potential customers. Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 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?

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also.

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Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s designed for two core use cases: Internal training; Product demonstrations. Brightcove also integrates with many other platforms, including HubSpot, Marketo, and Oracle, which allows you to easily view, embed, and use videos from products you’re already using (rather than learning to navigate another). Adapt video sizes.

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

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.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

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 There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 3) OnePagers.io.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The revolution is about access and the democratization of the factors of production. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Who gets to own the digital products we have purchased in good faith? It’s the next phase of D.I.Y:

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

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. To measure product usage and traction over time, we use tools like Alexa , AppAnnie and Google Analytics. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

This is what cross-device attribution refers to; users who initially view products on one device to research them, only to eventually purchase them or convert later on another device. For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s seems very likely that the growth in time spent in app per user was driven not by the early majority, but by the late majority and laggards (see below chart below from the famous book Crossing the Chasm about how to think about which customers are adopting a given product). 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

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. 19% of people showed some horizontal correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking.

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Metrics Analytics Aggregator Algorithm 65

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Things like business white-papers or product reviews are perfect examples of informational traffic. Products your friends bought, etc. David Pakman. Andres Moran.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

Firstly some apps will aggregate goods from lots of retailers and discovery will happen in app. That creates space for startups to build discovery experiences focused on specific verticals. The aggregation needs to be broad enough that transactions occur frequently but narrow enough that product discovery is truly engaging.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Mobile Aggregator Vertical 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? With CRM revenues at 39.5

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Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. In the end, they fall into three broad categories: Vertcal partitioning. Key-based partitioning. to store it. Hey, I stand corrected!

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Were they vertically integrated ? If so, why?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

And many entrepreneurs thought at that time that they could offer products and services to offline bookstores to compete against Amazon’s growing power. Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed.

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Sales Cycle Business Model Aggregator Vertical 122

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

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

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. A single contract can get you off the ground and running and focusing all your efforts on building the supply side and more product. See: Github , OpenTable. See: Gigwalk.

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Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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.

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. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Below, are 10 case studies on how to reduce churn for your SaaS product. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post. When using a product for the first time, users have no idea what to expect.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

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. Create “point” product value.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Having a full complement of beauty products available, whether you’re going on a trip, to the gym, or heading out after work, generally involves cramming them in a messy, jumbled makeup bag, which gets dirty fast. Congratulations on an incredible concept and product,” she says. It’s classy. Actress and activist Rose McGowan agrees.

Architecture 62

Architecture Los Angeles Austin Angel Investor 62

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. This is a $1000+ purchase.

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Aggregator Vertical Social Media Naming 93

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And once you have a relationship with an author, musician, or journalist, it will be quite easy for them to offer new products and services – and for you to give them feedback that helps them shape ever more interesting (and ever more profitable) offerings. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

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 A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point.

Stock 157

Stock Memphis Balance Sheet Analytics 157

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

He’s the Head of Product and Engineering at Moz, probably knows more about local SEO and the industry insights around SEO than most people. He is the Head of Product and Engineering at Moz. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results. This is John Jantsch.

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SEO Vertical Non-Compete Search 54