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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

The latest appearance, a 3 hour conversation with Joe Rogan, comes in a troubling time for Meta/Facebook as I covered in my latest post on VC Cafe. Joe Rogan hosted Mark Zuckerberg on a 3-hour conversation on the metaverse and Facebook’s woes. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization. For sites that rely on a lead-in, it’s a different conversation. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. It always boils down to the same conversation,” said Adams.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Satisfying passive intent, Kohn argues, is essential for user engagement and conversion. Geography (i.e. For example, an ambiguous query like “flowers” may return different results on February 14 compared to July 14.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

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. As Amazon built its logistical and server infrastructure, it systematically moved into one new vertical at a time: shoes, kitchen appliances, etc. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

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Austin AI startups raised more than $50 Million in 2017

Austin Startup

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. Most of the startups can be classified into two general categories. There are challenges on both sides.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So because they didn't know the industry, they just didn't have that ability to come into the conversation with something innovative. We thought there has to be a way to really elevate the conversation within our industry. The guys are like, well, maybe my sister will take this conversation. And it was very just vanilla.

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Finding New Customers In Untapped Places

Duct Tape Marketing

And sometimes we're just used to always thinking in a certain way about who that audience is sometimes within a vertical segment, other times maybe within a certain type of person that comes from a certain demographic background. But the point of view and the method is the same, regardless of what stage you're in. So sorry about that.

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