K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Arlo and AJ had built a stunning new way of doing product discovery for soft goods. So far, almost every shopping website shows products either in an endless list of “Next Page” links (hint hint Amazon — you have so much room for improvement!), or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Because I was late, I wasn’t able to check that my slides would be presented in the format I had hoped—and sure enough, the fonts looked wonky and the slide formatting resulted in text running off some of the pages. get to revenue, b.) Tell them you haven’t spoken with any customers yet because your product is still in development.

Hockey Stick 114

Hockey Stick Technical Review Due Diligence Seattle 114

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), The Buddy Media Platform empowers brands to manage Facebook Pages and engage fans! Facebook Pages.

Software 112

Software Media Social Media Advertising 112

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

And recent trends have placed on page UX factors higher in importance that old factors like keyword density. When an optimizer increases the page speed, that generally helps search rankings as well, because people like fast pages and Google knows this contributes to a better experience. Finally, page speed.

SEO 48

SEO Technical Review Algorithm Jacksonville 48

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building. No revenues, no costs. ” It’s true. Step #2: Pitch investors.

New York 132

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 132

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Digging through your IP closet for gold…. The Internet was young back when the patent was first filed by the Company, and their patented product allowed a visitor to dial into a computer (does anyone remember dial-up electronic bulletin boards?) Lots of work and millions of revenue in return. Don’t get me wrong though.

Intellectual Property 62

Intellectual Property IP Internet Technology 62

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

He is visiting the same site (not a separate landing page)… Notice how the two pages are different based on either the visitor’s demographic or previous behavior? Personalization: The visitor is automatically shown personalized pages based on anticipated needs / wants. increase in product views.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Silicon Valley 332

Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

PPC 121

PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You goal is to get people to buy your Discover data warehouse product. Missing web analytics tag from landing pages. They land on a page that is missing the web analytics tag. They click on a link on the landing page to go deeper into the site. Go to any page on your site with Site Catalyst. That is not an issue.

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I asked for all of the following information: Monthly revenue. Developers in the audience will cringe, but for speed’s sake, and because the app was already limping along, I made all changes live on the server in the production environment. Then I went through by hand and added calls to action to the most popular pages.

Acquisition 53

Acquisition Software Review Technical Review NDA 53

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Others emphasize how to build a product. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Therefore we developed a class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product.

Wiki 315

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 315

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. This distinction is something many marketers often mix.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM is built on alignment and without everyone on the same page from the start, any plans to drive growth are doomed to fail. In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

However you get to a good product is how you need to get to a good product. If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Idea (A) is just a broad concept of a new product.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

Gaming is still the largest category, where you see multiple mobile game companies with $100M+ revenue (e.g. Gameloft, Rovio) and a couple $1B+ revenue companies in Asia (GREE, DeNA). productivity – Evernote). That leaves advertising based consumer models.

Mobile 160

Mobile Advertising Bandwidth Web 160

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Sure, the revenue & margin will be significantly lower than traditional TV. Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. billion views.

Video 380

Video Audience Global Distribution 380

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

I want to highlight their home page … it is simple, beautiful and incredibly smart! The page knows that! They use geo/ip to work out where I am. I smile every time I see the home page they create for me. Of course there is still the search box on top of the page. What can you expect? – Music!

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

On this Cyber Monday, I wanted to share an important article from my dear friend and trusted IP lawyer Rachel Rodgers. On your journey to create your body of work, there are a variety of productive questions you might ask yourself to determine exactly what your business will look like. – Pamela Slim, Body of Work.

Intellectual Property 78

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Naming Finance 78

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

I think that Edward can not only build a successful outsourcing services company based on this premise, he can also build an IP portfolio and potentially a platform product that would make it more compelling, specialized, and higher-margin business than any old labor arbitrage shop.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A web page can load only so fast. Several digital titans— Twitter , Forbes , Uber , Alibaba , AliExpress —have already switched to PWAs, and there’s a growing collection of case studies that show the positive effect of PWAs on marketing KPIs : conversions, revenue, time spent, engagement, re-engagement, leads, etc.

Web 103

Web Caching HTML Marketing 103

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. For low dollar cost products, be somewhat liberal with sending product to influencers.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In 2020, smart home and building automation platform iRidium mobile wanted to land bigger clients and announce new products. iRidium had a well-defined promotion process for their own product, but it took a back seat to sharing expertise. iRidium invited top tier accounts to product demos. how long they spent on the site).

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This doesnt work well.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I own a website that EVERYONE gets excited about when I explain it, and then they love it when they log on… however, people who have never heard about it go to the site and don’t register, I know this is because my landing page is weak, any helpful hints to better my landing page? Building Product 2. a new art form?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved.

Stealth 90

Stealth NDA Startup IP 90

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Based on the conversations that I’ve had, where someone spent $5,000 on a website say five years ago, and whether they have Google Maps or not, the whole idea of getting a better website or getting a better product, that’s not something they want to do. Jason: In revenue. I realize it seems all kind of nebulous right now.

API 220

API Software Review Hosting Technical Review 220

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Now I don’t mean the hundred page business plan that we used to write back in the day. One is that you’ve written a business plan. Are you saving lives?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

CCPA will be imposed upon for-profit companies doing business in California with gross revenues greater than $25 million (whew) that buy, sell, or receive any of the personal information for more than 50,000 consumers, households or DEVICES (emphasis mine) for commercial purposes. First, the limits upon companies. The good news. Whew again.

California 59

California IP Aggregator Revenue 59

ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

This report is built by taking the “site average pages per visit” & “site average time on site” We then create four segments: Methodical Marys visit the site for longer than the average and view more pages than average. One-hit Juans visit few pages, but stay on the site for a long time.

Analytics 131

Analytics Conversion Metrics Europe 131

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you aren’t seeing the URLs report as expected, be sure to check that: The Google Analytics code is on the page (normally you can “right-click” and select “View Source” then search for “UA-” to find the GA code). The Google Tag Manager code is on the page and the Pageview tag is setup correctly.?”. Property setup. Goals setup.

Analytics 70

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 70

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

E.g. Average time on page; we don’t know how it’s collected, we don’t know exactly what it’s measuring, it doesn’t tell us anything… but we still use it. No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Typically happens at the end of the product lifecycle. Look at the least visible pages. 10K / 1M = 1%.

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 51 comments ↓ #1 Michael Langford on 01.08.09

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Jamie Lieberman: Contracts don’t have to be these awful documents that make you want to throw up when you have to look at them with two columns and font six, and it’s a single-spaced, and it’s 75 pages long. That could be IP addresses. They really were just trying to extract a new revenue stream, but again-.

Small Business 85

Small Business Non-Compete Intellectual Property New York City 85

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

If you aren’t seeing the URLs report as expected, be sure to check that: The Google Analytics code is on the page (normally you can “right-click” and select “View Source” then search for “UA-” to find the GA code). The Google Tag Manager code is on the page and the Pageview tag is setup correctly.
”. Property Setup. Goals Setup.

Analytics 48

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 48