Hitenism

OCTOBER 17, 2016

When raising money, most founders start by creating a pitch deck. Investors see countless versions of these pitch decks every day. Between cold emails, warm introductions, founders I know and incubators I help, I personally get ten to twenty a day. Every single one of these businesses is unique. Yet most of their decks look and sound the same. With titles like “The Problem” “The Opportunity” “Market Size” and “Team” these decks aren’t differentiated.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Why is this ad appearing on this site? This was a frequent questions both advertisers and publishers asked of Google. Behind the scenes, machine learning models match the best ad to the best website, given a set of constraints including budget and the dynamics of the ad auction. To untangle the decision chain across the many different targeting systems to answer the question is a knotty task indeed.

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Pierre Lechelle

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Are you a CMO? When was the last time you invested money into Customer Acquisition? Today? When was the last time you felt confident spending one dollar because you’d get back 10 dollars? And I’m not speaking about extrapolating LTV. I’m speaking about real LTV on a specific customer. Tracking Customer Acquisition can solve all […].

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Stack Commerce

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The holiday season is approaching quickly, and having a strong digital commerce strategy is essential. At StackCommerce, we’ve helped hundreds of publisher-owned online shops flourish during the holiday season through our native commerce platform. From preparing unique and exciting inventory to organizing specialized gift shops, we’ve had our hands in it all.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In our previous post, we explored how to successfully evaluate sales calls with your junior reps. The post tackled seven attributes that are crucial to having a successful sales call. 1. Setting a goal 2. Knowing the pitch 3. Sticking to the facts 4. Exercising confidence 5.

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ReSci

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Unless you’ve been living in the literal woods playing Pokémon Go for the past week or so (entirely plausible), you’ve already heard the unicorn success story taking the Internet by storm: Unilever is acquiring Dollar Shave Club for a cool $1 billion. It’s no surprise. The post What Makes Dollar Shave Club “F**king Great” appeared first on ReSci.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 16, 2016

2016 has been a volatile year. Major capital investments fell 55% in Q3. The IPO market is a tale of two cities with some companies able to go public and catapult their valuations, but the overall number remains in the single digits. Last, M&A activity seems quite brisk with more than 30 $1B+ billion acquisitions in the last nine months alone. How do all these factors commingle to influence today’s acquisition environment?

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