Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2013

An entrepreneur shared this quote with me a few weeks ago. The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003. I remembered it this morning when I drove past a Google self-driving car and then again a few minutes later when a Tesla whipped past me and a third time during the same commute when I dictated an email to my mobile phone.

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Startup Technology Mobile Education 108

CloseSaaS

MARCH 22, 2013

We just launched a new feature to enable you to add a stream of your Close tasks into your calendar!

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The Angel VC

MARCH 18, 2013

Here's another post in my series on DOs and DON'Ts for early-stage SaaS startups : 6th DO for SaaS startups Fill the funnel Or: Focus on inbound marketing, but try lots of things and double-down on what works In this post I'm going to write about lead generation for SaaS startups. When I edit the series later on I might merge it into my 4th DO ( Make your website your best marketing person ) to have one post on marketing.

Scale 143

Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service SaaS 143

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2013

Over the past few weeks, there has been a new refrain among consumer mobile startups that I’ve met with: we’re designing for normal people or normals as Chris Dixon would put it. There are a few reasons for this trend. First, there is a movement towards great design. Second, there is a wave to reinvent and reimagine core applications of the mobile phones.

Mobile 100

Mobile Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Acquisition 100

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

Innovation

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2013

You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”. There is a land war being fought on the web and it’s for files and filesystems. Incumbents and startups alike are duking it out. And things are really starting to get interesting. The startups, Dropbox and Evernote, reinvented the file system as a synchronized, cross platform file system abstracting the hardware and the data.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Cloud Startup Engagement 100

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2013

In social media, like the real world, there’s quite a lot of gossip going on behind your back. At least on the Internet, you can measure it. Dubbed dark social, this “invisible” sharing brings 40% of the visitors to my blog and similar amounts of traffic to other content sites. The Atlantic Monthly, which receives 5M monthly uniques, reports 60% of traffic from dark social.

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Social Media Marketing 100