Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. Like with Google’s acquisition of Applied Semantics, this deal adds a fundamentally new business model to the company.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

One of the next phases of growth and large revenue opportunities will be driven by what is captured every time you click on a page and move from site to site. Mobile carrier voice revenue is declining, and data revenue is the next huge growth area for carriers.

Jordan 60

Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. Want hardcore futuristic technology? Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

Boston 215

Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. Like with Google’s acquisition of Applied Semantics, this deal adds a fundamentally new business model to the company.

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Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. And why do we still sometimes hear about pre-seed rounds that look more like a series A in pricing and size?

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Valuation Software Review Generative AI Technical Review 186

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

For most businesses, success translates to more revenue (and profits). For example, if your revenue model is driven by advertising on your site, one interim goal could be to drive a certain amount of additional traffic to your site. This is known as semantic SEO.

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SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The same holds true for the marketer (or growth hacker if you have a semantic preference) who controls your customer acquisition channels, the salesperson who dominates your revenue creation, or the operations person without whom, you wouldn’t even know how to issue paychecks.

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Employee Semantic Salary Acquisition 102

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2013

5 New Realities of SEO – Back in the day, SEO was more technical and less, well, semantic. Now I realize that for most a term like semantic query relevancy might as well be the name of computer programming language, but the fact is Google’s customers, the searcher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

He is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies, and e-commerce managers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights. Jeff is a data-driven search engine marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in the search industry. It's good to be here.

Artificial Inteligence 73

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Differentiation Technical Review 73

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We believe instead of setting up your marketing organization for interruption, like it’s basically been set up for the last 50 years, what if we set it up around groups of audiences that we get really close to, we build loyal and trusted relationships with, and we don’t just create one revenue stream. We create four, five.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 5, 2009

To do this, we use semantic technology targeted to the domain name. You earn revenue when users interact with the ads on your site. Instead of an “under construction” page or 404 error, AdSense for domains provides links, search results, advertisements and other content. Landing pages end up looking like this.

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Semantic Programming Advertising Revenue 60

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

An eight-time author with a flair for building successful businesses, Julia grew her writing agency, Express Writers, to a remarkable $5 million in revenue with a team of over 100 staff members. She's an eight time author and built a writing agency express writers to $5 million in revenue and over 100 on staff. Those are not evergreen.

SEO 62

SEO Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Video 62

Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

– Would love to see revenue/business models re-enter the social media conversation. 3:30pm – *Cue self-serving segment* Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web. Let’s gang up on him and force him to answer revenue questions. It’s the perfect way to kick off your SXSW adventure.

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Iran Semantic Austin Algorithm 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. But, Quigo succeeded in licensing AdSonar to Overture.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Scalable Startup

MAY 5, 2012

Humans make decisions by being convinced by other humans, even if the convincing is implemented by automation, data mining, and semantics. The technology has changed, but the art of selling and closing sales has not. Respect the human sales skills. They keep “selling” me.

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Sales Semantic Audio Mobile 22

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. > community for software developers to share revenue is kindof tempting to do, though -- samlittlewood 215 days ago | link.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

While most of the revenue does come from TellMe’s hosted speech applications for customer service, the big value in the long run will be Microsoft’s ability to incorporate TellMe’s mobile search and voice-driven search through the mobile handset.

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North America Semantic Africa Acquisition 60

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month). No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. The rest is just semantics. But they do $50B in revenue. I think that the three bucket are often overlapping where the Informational Content or Topical Content can drive Transactions or other direct consumer or trade revenue models. Matt DeLoca. David Pakman.

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Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift passes 95% of the data revenue back to Twitter. When you do semantic analysis on the article shared you would find out that this is an article trying to persuade people that shale oil drilling in the US is important for energy independence. Let me make it easy on you – this number is wrong. Ninety five.

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Syndicate Syndication Semantic Artificial Inteligence 150

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

Taboola analyzes what type of videos and content engage users on home pages, category pages and article pages and then generates user-specific recommendation lists in real time – based on semantics, user behavior and publisher goals.

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Video Semantic New York 90

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The purpose of the product lifecycle illustration is not to debate semantics but, in a single view, to understand how product sales typically change over time. VC-backed companies that focus on user adoption—at the expense of profitability or even revenue—may never plan for phases beyond Introduction and Growth.

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Product Marketing Differentiation Harvest 124

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Edit Room is a web app that lets you assemble content, mark it up semantically, and then use fast, intuitive tools to design flexible HTML prototypes that can be presented and tested, and are even clean enough to be used as a kick-start for further development. Sorry :-) Ive read it already though ;).

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Web Mobile Software Review Design 89

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Fabless semiconductor company Provigent is named the most promising startup in Israel by Globes and E&Y – The company had $25 million revenue in 2009 and expects $40 million in sales this year, and has been profitable for 18 months. million project - [link]. It has 120 employees.

Venture Capital 74

Venture Capital Semantic New York 74

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. You need to track the right revenue goals. Abi Hough: Hypothesize This: How Do You Find $100M of Lost Revenue Without Creating a Single Experiment? Conversion rate is a ratio and ratios are a huge problem.

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San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. Semantic Webber (2010-06-21) # Great read! Yes its great to implement "task A", but will it drive revenue? Last, I would like to thank you for the perspective o hiring two people for the same job! Keep it Simple.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84