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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?” When Larry Ellison rejected his idea, he left Oracle and created his own company. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Simple But Powerful Tips for Naming Your Business or Startup

The Startup Magazine

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. 4) Avoid Copyright or Trademark Issues: Cross checking trademarks databases beforehand for copyrighted business names will save you unnecessary legal hassles in the future. Source: Pixabay.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

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How Personalized Marketing Can Increase Your eCommerce Sales

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because the open & click rates across nearly every vertical are also significantly higher. For B2C eCommerce businesses, the user usually comes with some purchase intent, so it doesn’t always make sense to use such tactics to capture emails. Yet surprisingly, 70% of brands do not personalize. image source.

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steveblank.com

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. You’ve got everyone who ever breathed in that database. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.