10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words – and not the presentation of ourselves – is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of London’s Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the world’s most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
Compiled by Kurio & thenetworkone
The contributing experts and agencies are : Michał Kaliściak, Head of Content & Moderation, 180heartbeats +JUNG v MATT (PL), Kevin Fernandez, Social Media Producer, Adolescent Content (USA), Mar Camps, Digital Director, Atrevia (ES), Emily Ostrowska, Social Strategist, Culture (NZ), Adaobi Ugoago, Senior Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA), Silvia Tasso, Senior Digital Strategist & Francesca Trevisan, Digital Strategist, Different (IT), Jemma Parkin, Senior Account Manager, The Hallway (AU), Monika James, General Manager, Healthy Thinking Group Asia (SG), James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH/UK), Lukas Hardy, Social Media Manager & Pancho González, Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax (CL), Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session (RO), Megan Perks, Executive Creative Director, Joe Public United (SA), Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK), Gaby Arriaga, Founder, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Consultant, Digital Marketing, Medulla Communications (IN), Shannon Osborne, Head of Digital, Osaka Labs (UK), Lucas Florian, Unit Director, PIABO (DE), Kei Obusan, Senior Data and Insights Manager, Radarr (SG), Carol Chan, Managing Director, Comms8 (UK/HK), Presh Hunder, Social Media Manager & Jide Agbana, Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NRA), Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA)
Yuga Labs, the company that created the wildly popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, is hoping to make hundreds of millions of dollars by selling off virtual plots of land. According to a leaked pitch deck obtained by The Block, the company also plans to launch a sweeping new metaverse initiative, as well as its own token.
Yuga's revenue last year reached a whopping $127 million, a figure it anticipates will reach $455 million by 2022 — largely from the sale of virtual land.
This leak comes after a flurry of activity in the blue-chip corner of the NFT sector: most notably, Yuga Labs announced the acquisition of the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT projects’ intellectual property from Larva Labs just days prior. As of today, Yuga Labs owns two of the most valuable NFT projects on the market: BAYC and CryptoPunks projects have a combined trading volume of more than US$3 billion.
Read more: vip.graphics/yuga-labs-pitch-deck/
See the deck: bestpitchdeck.com/yuga-labs
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Megan Encarnacion, Associate Director Social Media & Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA); Ramaa Mosley, CEO Adolescent Content/Youthtellers & Serenity Griffin, Community Manager & Michelle Castillo, Youthteller Consultant &Jola Adeoye, Youthteller Consultant & Sophie Wieters, Youthteller Consultant & Rea Sweets, Youthteller Consultant & Nathalie Alvarez, Youthteller Consultant & Jacob Thompson, Youthteller Consultant § Jadon Velasquez, Youthteller Consultant § Maya Minhas, Youthteller Consultant & Khrystina Warnstadt, Youthteller Consultant, Adolescent Content (USA); Alex Casanovas, Digital Director. Atrevia (ES); Natalie Chaney, Social Strategist, Barrett (USA); Seyi Alawode, Founder & Head of Strategy, CHL (NGA / UK); Eli Williams, Sr. Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA); Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT); Jide Agbana, Global Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NGA); Olivia Hussey, Junior Planner, The Hallway (AUS); James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH / UK); Laura Marzec, Content Strategy at Imagination, part of The Mx Group (USA); Valentina Lagos, Social Media Manager & Felipe "Peluche" León, Digital Director & Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director & Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH); Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO); Alix Le Bourgeois, Lead Strategist, JIN (UK/FR); Leigh Tayler, Integrated Strategy Director, Joe Public (SA); Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK); Gaby Arriaga, Founder of Leonardo1452, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead, Medulla (IN); Maira Genovese, Founder and President, MG Empower (UK); Aryana Noorbakhsh, Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Osaka Labs (UK); Timotée Louise Gbaguidi, Digital Communications Director, PIABO (DE); Alexandre Ouairy, Founder and Director, PLTFRM (CN); Daffi Ranandi, Junior Insights Manager, Radarr (SGP); Hannah Nickels, Head Paid & Owned Media Thinker, Thinkerbell (AUS); Allison Lee, Social Team Co-Lead, UltraSuperNew (JP)
- Email was originally designed for individual use, not team collaboration, so the company built the first shared email client to enable features like canned responses, automated rules, reminders, and analytics.
- The shared email client now has 2300 companies as customers across many industries using it for functions like customer support, operations, and sales. Usage and revenue have grown consistently while churn has decreased.
- Moving forward, the company aims to continue improving their platform and adding more users to increase value, with goals of positive operating margins by end of 2019 and $xx in ARR by end of 2018. Their long term vision is to become an extensible platform beyond just messaging.
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollarsMikael Cho
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollars for ooomf.com (now pickcrew.com)
View the online version here: https://pickcrew.com/investors/
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words – and not the presentation of ourselves – is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of London’s Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the world’s most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
Compiled by Kurio & thenetworkone
The contributing experts and agencies are : Michał Kaliściak, Head of Content & Moderation, 180heartbeats +JUNG v MATT (PL), Kevin Fernandez, Social Media Producer, Adolescent Content (USA), Mar Camps, Digital Director, Atrevia (ES), Emily Ostrowska, Social Strategist, Culture (NZ), Adaobi Ugoago, Senior Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA), Silvia Tasso, Senior Digital Strategist & Francesca Trevisan, Digital Strategist, Different (IT), Jemma Parkin, Senior Account Manager, The Hallway (AU), Monika James, General Manager, Healthy Thinking Group Asia (SG), James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH/UK), Lukas Hardy, Social Media Manager & Pancho González, Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax (CL), Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session (RO), Megan Perks, Executive Creative Director, Joe Public United (SA), Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK), Gaby Arriaga, Founder, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Consultant, Digital Marketing, Medulla Communications (IN), Shannon Osborne, Head of Digital, Osaka Labs (UK), Lucas Florian, Unit Director, PIABO (DE), Kei Obusan, Senior Data and Insights Manager, Radarr (SG), Carol Chan, Managing Director, Comms8 (UK/HK), Presh Hunder, Social Media Manager & Jide Agbana, Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NRA), Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA)
Yuga Labs, the company that created the wildly popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, is hoping to make hundreds of millions of dollars by selling off virtual plots of land. According to a leaked pitch deck obtained by The Block, the company also plans to launch a sweeping new metaverse initiative, as well as its own token.
Yuga's revenue last year reached a whopping $127 million, a figure it anticipates will reach $455 million by 2022 — largely from the sale of virtual land.
This leak comes after a flurry of activity in the blue-chip corner of the NFT sector: most notably, Yuga Labs announced the acquisition of the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT projects’ intellectual property from Larva Labs just days prior. As of today, Yuga Labs owns two of the most valuable NFT projects on the market: BAYC and CryptoPunks projects have a combined trading volume of more than US$3 billion.
Read more: vip.graphics/yuga-labs-pitch-deck/
See the deck: bestpitchdeck.com/yuga-labs
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Megan Encarnacion, Associate Director Social Media & Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA); Ramaa Mosley, CEO Adolescent Content/Youthtellers & Serenity Griffin, Community Manager & Michelle Castillo, Youthteller Consultant &Jola Adeoye, Youthteller Consultant & Sophie Wieters, Youthteller Consultant & Rea Sweets, Youthteller Consultant & Nathalie Alvarez, Youthteller Consultant & Jacob Thompson, Youthteller Consultant § Jadon Velasquez, Youthteller Consultant § Maya Minhas, Youthteller Consultant & Khrystina Warnstadt, Youthteller Consultant, Adolescent Content (USA); Alex Casanovas, Digital Director. Atrevia (ES); Natalie Chaney, Social Strategist, Barrett (USA); Seyi Alawode, Founder & Head of Strategy, CHL (NGA / UK); Eli Williams, Sr. Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA); Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT); Jide Agbana, Global Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NGA); Olivia Hussey, Junior Planner, The Hallway (AUS); James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH / UK); Laura Marzec, Content Strategy at Imagination, part of The Mx Group (USA); Valentina Lagos, Social Media Manager & Felipe "Peluche" León, Digital Director & Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director & Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH); Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO); Alix Le Bourgeois, Lead Strategist, JIN (UK/FR); Leigh Tayler, Integrated Strategy Director, Joe Public (SA); Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK); Gaby Arriaga, Founder of Leonardo1452, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead, Medulla (IN); Maira Genovese, Founder and President, MG Empower (UK); Aryana Noorbakhsh, Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Osaka Labs (UK); Timotée Louise Gbaguidi, Digital Communications Director, PIABO (DE); Alexandre Ouairy, Founder and Director, PLTFRM (CN); Daffi Ranandi, Junior Insights Manager, Radarr (SGP); Hannah Nickels, Head Paid & Owned Media Thinker, Thinkerbell (AUS); Allison Lee, Social Team Co-Lead, UltraSuperNew (JP)
- Email was originally designed for individual use, not team collaboration, so the company built the first shared email client to enable features like canned responses, automated rules, reminders, and analytics.
- The shared email client now has 2300 companies as customers across many industries using it for functions like customer support, operations, and sales. Usage and revenue have grown consistently while churn has decreased.
- Moving forward, the company aims to continue improving their platform and adding more users to increase value, with goals of positive operating margins by end of 2019 and $xx in ARR by end of 2018. Their long term vision is to become an extensible platform beyond just messaging.
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollarsMikael Cho
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollars for ooomf.com (now pickcrew.com)
View the online version here: https://pickcrew.com/investors/
Pemerintah mengumumkan rencana untuk membangun pusat perbelanjaan baru di pusat kota untuk mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi. Rencana ini mendapat dukungan dari kalangan bisnis tetapi ditentang oleh kelompok lingkungan karena khawatir akan mengganggu ekosistem setempat. Perdebatan masih berlanjut mengenai dampak sosial ekonomi dan lingkungan dari rencana pembangunan tersebut.
Trends In Paid Search: Navigating The Digital Landscape In 2024Search Engine Journal
The search marketing landscape is evolving rapidly with new technologies, and professionals, like you, rely on innovative paid search strategies to meet changing demands.
It’s important that you’re ready to implement new strategies in 2024.
Check this out and learn the top trends in paid search advertising that are expected to gain traction, so you can drive higher ROI more efficiently in 2024.
You’ll learn:
- The latest trends in AI and automation, and what this means for an evolving paid search ecosystem.
- New developments in privacy and data regulation.
- Emerging ad formats that are expected to make an impact next year.
Watch Sreekant Lanka from iQuanti and Irina Klein from OneMain Financial as they dive into the future of paid search and explore the trends, strategies, and technologies that will shape the search marketing landscape.
If you’re looking to assess your paid search strategy and design an industry-aligned plan for 2024, then this webinar is for you.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
SolChicks pitch deck: $77M for blockchain gamingPitch Decks
SolChicks is a play-to-earn fantasy game built on Solana. The SolChicks game demo attracted over 50,000 players in only the first week of its release.
The startup gained over 350,000 followers on Twitter and claims its community consists of 700,000 across 20 countries, amassed in just four short months.
The Australian-founded play-to-earn blockchain gaming company started just September has already raised $77 million from venture capital and institutional investment funds, as well as more than 100 staff. SolChicks is scheduled for a mini-game release at the end of March 2022, an “alpha” release in April and an official release in September.
Pendo is a Raleigh, NC-based company founded in 2013 that provides an integrated platform for capturing user behavior data, providing product analytics, and delivering personalized in-app guidance. The platform helps various teams across organizations like customer success, marketing, engineering, and product management. Some key customers highlighted in the presentation include Infor, Sprinklr, and Henry Schein. Pendo is targeting continued growth in annual recurring revenue and moving further upmarket towards larger enterprise customers. The company is seeking a $15 million Series B funding round in Q1 of fiscal year 2018.
The document summarizes the history and growth of SEOmoz, an SEO software company founded in 2001 by Rand Fishkin and his mother Gillian. It details how SEOmoz grew from a small consultancy into a profitable software company with over 10,000 subscribers. The document outlines SEOmoz's plans to raise $20-25 million in funding to expand its product suite, team, and marketing in order to serve a wider audience and become the leading software for organic marketers. The goal is for SEOmoz to become Seattle's next billion dollar company.
Top 10 Social Media Tips For Financial AdvisorsFinworx
Whether you're a social media expert or a digital novice, these quick tips will help you get the most out of your social media accounts. Join the digital world as a financial advisor with a little help from BPV Capital Management!
Decentralized social networks are emerging as the next trend, allowing individual users more control over their data and experience. As concerns grow over privacy and data usage on mainstream platforms, decentralized networks run by consumers rather than corporations offer an alternative. However, challenges remain around moderation and preventing toxicity without centralized oversight. In 2023, one or two decentralized networks may start to gain significant traction if they can address these issues, putting pressure on major platforms to offer users more choice and autonomy.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
This document provides an overview and introduction to digital strategy from Bud Caddell, SVP and Director of Digital Strategy at Deutsch LA. It defines key terms like digital strategy, digital strategist, and core concepts. It explores what a digital strategy and strategist are, essential concepts like insights, cultural tensions and category conventions, and what deliverables a digital strategist produces. The document is intended to educate young practitioners entering the field of digital strategy.
1) The document discusses Wetipp, a platform that aims to make community participation and engagement easy for organizations by providing collaboration tools and personalized notifications in one place.
2) It notes that millions of community organizations struggle to engage members and that current tools require too many accounts.
3) Wetipp provides chat-based collaboration, tracks interests, and offers a single account for apps and integrations to help organizations better engage their members.
10 Steps to Actionable Analytics for Digital MarketingSmart Insights
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like depression and anxiety.
I happen to love podcasts and it seems like the I’m not alone, 20% of Americans are now listening to podcasts at least once a month, that’s a lot of hours directly attached to your target audience’s brain. According to the Washington Post, there were over 1 billion podcast downloads this past year and monthly podcast listeners have reached 75 million per month. Podcasts allow individual and traditional broadcasters alike to reach younger, and more varied audiences. “People under the age of 30 don’t own radios,” noted WNYC’s CEO and president Laura Walker.
What’s great about podcasts is there are no rules, you can target a niche as specific as you like, the listening habits are so varied and what you determine as ROI is all up to you. If done correctly it’s a forum to consistently share your expertise, build your credibility in a very intimate medium. When you have a direct relationship with your listener you can do really interesting things to build your brand. There’s nothing more intimate than being allowed to whisper in someones ear on a regular basis
Our world is full of endless distractions: videos, special offers, articles, the list goes on. So, how do you make sure your content reaches your audience and grabs their attention?
During this webinar, content marketing expert Steve Rayson will share insights gained from analyzing a million headlines, across a range of publications, to discover what phrases amplify content and drive conversions.
And if that's not enough, advertising fanatic Larry Kim will show you how to use this data to craft click-worthy ad copy to use across paid search and social to increase click-through rates and significantly decrease cost-per-click.
Register now to hear this marketing dynamic duo crack the code on engagement.
You'll learn:
-What type of copy performs best on Facebook, Twitter, and Search
-How to curate attention-grabbing, engaging content
-What components make up a powerful headline
This is the first SlideShare adaption of Timothy E. Johansson's 100 Growth Hacks in 100 Days. The growth hacks that's included in the slide are 1 to 10. Timothy is the front-end developer at UserApp (www.userapp.io).
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already have a condition.
We’ve shared a lot of data about whether and why ‘this time is different’. But beyond that, why is the tech market opportunity larger than any time in history (no, really!)? One word: mobile.
In this update of his past presentation on Mobile Eating the World — delivered this month at Andreessen Horowitz’ annual investor meeting — a16z’s Benedict Evans shares just how and why mobile changes everything. Because tech is outgrowing the tech industry.
Pemerintah mengumumkan rencana untuk membangun pusat perbelanjaan baru di pusat kota untuk mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi. Rencana ini mendapat dukungan dari kalangan bisnis tetapi ditentang oleh kelompok lingkungan karena khawatir akan mengganggu ekosistem setempat. Perdebatan masih berlanjut mengenai dampak sosial ekonomi dan lingkungan dari rencana pembangunan tersebut.
Trends In Paid Search: Navigating The Digital Landscape In 2024Search Engine Journal
The search marketing landscape is evolving rapidly with new technologies, and professionals, like you, rely on innovative paid search strategies to meet changing demands.
It’s important that you’re ready to implement new strategies in 2024.
Check this out and learn the top trends in paid search advertising that are expected to gain traction, so you can drive higher ROI more efficiently in 2024.
You’ll learn:
- The latest trends in AI and automation, and what this means for an evolving paid search ecosystem.
- New developments in privacy and data regulation.
- Emerging ad formats that are expected to make an impact next year.
Watch Sreekant Lanka from iQuanti and Irina Klein from OneMain Financial as they dive into the future of paid search and explore the trends, strategies, and technologies that will shape the search marketing landscape.
If you’re looking to assess your paid search strategy and design an industry-aligned plan for 2024, then this webinar is for you.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
SolChicks pitch deck: $77M for blockchain gamingPitch Decks
SolChicks is a play-to-earn fantasy game built on Solana. The SolChicks game demo attracted over 50,000 players in only the first week of its release.
The startup gained over 350,000 followers on Twitter and claims its community consists of 700,000 across 20 countries, amassed in just four short months.
The Australian-founded play-to-earn blockchain gaming company started just September has already raised $77 million from venture capital and institutional investment funds, as well as more than 100 staff. SolChicks is scheduled for a mini-game release at the end of March 2022, an “alpha” release in April and an official release in September.
Pendo is a Raleigh, NC-based company founded in 2013 that provides an integrated platform for capturing user behavior data, providing product analytics, and delivering personalized in-app guidance. The platform helps various teams across organizations like customer success, marketing, engineering, and product management. Some key customers highlighted in the presentation include Infor, Sprinklr, and Henry Schein. Pendo is targeting continued growth in annual recurring revenue and moving further upmarket towards larger enterprise customers. The company is seeking a $15 million Series B funding round in Q1 of fiscal year 2018.
The document summarizes the history and growth of SEOmoz, an SEO software company founded in 2001 by Rand Fishkin and his mother Gillian. It details how SEOmoz grew from a small consultancy into a profitable software company with over 10,000 subscribers. The document outlines SEOmoz's plans to raise $20-25 million in funding to expand its product suite, team, and marketing in order to serve a wider audience and become the leading software for organic marketers. The goal is for SEOmoz to become Seattle's next billion dollar company.
Top 10 Social Media Tips For Financial AdvisorsFinworx
Whether you're a social media expert or a digital novice, these quick tips will help you get the most out of your social media accounts. Join the digital world as a financial advisor with a little help from BPV Capital Management!
Decentralized social networks are emerging as the next trend, allowing individual users more control over their data and experience. As concerns grow over privacy and data usage on mainstream platforms, decentralized networks run by consumers rather than corporations offer an alternative. However, challenges remain around moderation and preventing toxicity without centralized oversight. In 2023, one or two decentralized networks may start to gain significant traction if they can address these issues, putting pressure on major platforms to offer users more choice and autonomy.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
This document provides an overview and introduction to digital strategy from Bud Caddell, SVP and Director of Digital Strategy at Deutsch LA. It defines key terms like digital strategy, digital strategist, and core concepts. It explores what a digital strategy and strategist are, essential concepts like insights, cultural tensions and category conventions, and what deliverables a digital strategist produces. The document is intended to educate young practitioners entering the field of digital strategy.
1) The document discusses Wetipp, a platform that aims to make community participation and engagement easy for organizations by providing collaboration tools and personalized notifications in one place.
2) It notes that millions of community organizations struggle to engage members and that current tools require too many accounts.
3) Wetipp provides chat-based collaboration, tracks interests, and offers a single account for apps and integrations to help organizations better engage their members.
10 Steps to Actionable Analytics for Digital MarketingSmart Insights
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like depression and anxiety.
I happen to love podcasts and it seems like the I’m not alone, 20% of Americans are now listening to podcasts at least once a month, that’s a lot of hours directly attached to your target audience’s brain. According to the Washington Post, there were over 1 billion podcast downloads this past year and monthly podcast listeners have reached 75 million per month. Podcasts allow individual and traditional broadcasters alike to reach younger, and more varied audiences. “People under the age of 30 don’t own radios,” noted WNYC’s CEO and president Laura Walker.
What’s great about podcasts is there are no rules, you can target a niche as specific as you like, the listening habits are so varied and what you determine as ROI is all up to you. If done correctly it’s a forum to consistently share your expertise, build your credibility in a very intimate medium. When you have a direct relationship with your listener you can do really interesting things to build your brand. There’s nothing more intimate than being allowed to whisper in someones ear on a regular basis
Our world is full of endless distractions: videos, special offers, articles, the list goes on. So, how do you make sure your content reaches your audience and grabs their attention?
During this webinar, content marketing expert Steve Rayson will share insights gained from analyzing a million headlines, across a range of publications, to discover what phrases amplify content and drive conversions.
And if that's not enough, advertising fanatic Larry Kim will show you how to use this data to craft click-worthy ad copy to use across paid search and social to increase click-through rates and significantly decrease cost-per-click.
Register now to hear this marketing dynamic duo crack the code on engagement.
You'll learn:
-What type of copy performs best on Facebook, Twitter, and Search
-How to curate attention-grabbing, engaging content
-What components make up a powerful headline
This is the first SlideShare adaption of Timothy E. Johansson's 100 Growth Hacks in 100 Days. The growth hacks that's included in the slide are 1 to 10. Timothy is the front-end developer at UserApp (www.userapp.io).
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already have a condition.
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2. 2
What’s going on in the public markets?
What are all these “unicorns”?
What’s going on in venture capital?
3. 3
0
20
40
60
80
100
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech IPO & private funding ($bn)
The starting point – what’s going on?
34 years of US tech funding
Source: Capital IQ, Jay Ritter, University of Florida, NVCA, a16z
IPO
Private
2014
4. 4
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech IPO & private funding ($bn, 2014 dollars)
…inflation adjusted
(Can you spot the bubble?)
Source: Capital IQ, Jay Ritter, University of Florida, NVCA, a16z
IPO
Private
2014
7. 7
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
ForwardP/Emultiple
Indexprice
S&P IT index (adjusted for inflation)
But, earnings, not P/E multiples, are growing
This time, profits are driving returns – in fact, P/E multiples are at early 1990s levels
Source: Bloomberg
Forward P/E
multiple
Index
8. 8
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
S&P IT index market cap as % of S&P 500 market cap
Tech’s contribution to S&P is flat
Public tech companies’ share of the overall US stock market is stable for 14 years
Source: Bloomberg
9. 9
0
1
2
3
4
5
1995 2000 2014 2020
Billion people online
And market size is for real this time
The internet is working now – from 40 million people online to 4 billion
Source: ITU, a16z
Smartphones
People online
10. 10
$0
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
$600
$700
$800
$900
$1,000
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Tech funding per US internet user ($, 2014 dollars)
Funding per person online
US funding per internet user has been roughly flat since the bubble
Source: Capital IQ, ITU, US Census, a16z
Public $ / user
Private $ / user
11. 11
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
US online revenues ($bn, 2014 dollars)
People are spending (lots of) money online
US ecommerce + online ad revenue has increased ~15x since 1999
Source: US Census Bureau, IAB/PwC, a16z
Online
advertising
Ecommerce
12. 12
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
5,000
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
US retail revenue ($bn, 2014 dollars)
And there’s more to come
Ecommerce is still only 6% of US retail revenue – far more room to grow
Source: US Census Bureau, a16z
Ecommerce
Retail ex.
Ecommerce
13. 13
0.0%
0.2%
0.4%
0.6%
0.8%
1.0%
1.2%
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech funding (IPO + private) as % GDP
So funding as share of GDP looks moderate
Steady growth in funding reflects the scale of the opportunity
Source: Capital IQ, Jay Ritter, University of Florida, NVCA, BEA, a16z
2014
14. 14
“It’s different this time.”
*2014 dollars, venture & IPO. Source: Capital IQ, Bloomberg, BEA, ITU, US Census, Jay
Ritter, University of Florida, a16z
1999 2014
US tech funding $* $71bn $48bn
Funding as % US Tech GDP 10.8% 2.6%
S&P IT index forward P/E 39.0x 16.1x
Global internet population 0.4bn people 3bn people
US ecommerce revenues* $12bn $304bn
Number of IPOs 371 53
Median time to IPO 4 Years 11 Years
17. 17
The headlines are ominous.
61 US tech “unicorns” (private company with
>$1bn valuation).
75% of the largest VC investments have
been raised in the last 5 years.
Source: Capital IQ, CB Insights, a16z
18. 18
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1997 1998 1999 2000 2011 2012 2013 2014
US IPO and private tech funding by round size ($bn, 2014 dollars)
But, the funding surge is in late-stage only
The funding explosion in 1999-2000 was at every stage – in 2014 it isn’t
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $40m+
Private $1-40m
IPO
19. 19
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Aggregate funding for top 20 US tech private deals ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Yes, there is more funding for larger deals
The top 20 private deals have suddenly become very large
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
20. 20
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Aggregate funding for top 20 US tech deals ($bn, 2014 dollars)
But, this is just a rebalancing from IPOs
The top 20 deals used to be mostly IPOs – now they’re almost all private
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
IPO
Private
21. 21
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
NumberofIPOs
IPOfunding($bn)
US tech IPO funding ($bn, 2014 dollars) and number of IPOs
And tech IPOs are essentially dead
The tech IPO market is at early 1980’s volumes
Source: Jay Ritter, University of Florida
IPO funding
Number of IPOs
2014
22. 22
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech IPO & private funding
IPOs used to be the norm – but no more
For most of the ‘90s the majority of tech funding was public – this has reversed
Source: Capital IQ, Jay Ritter, University of Florida, NVCA, a16z
IPO
Private
2014
23. 23
0
50
100
150
200
250
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Median revenue at IPO ($m, 2014 dollars)
The bar for an IPO is now much higher
It used to be routine to hit $20m revenues and go public – not any more
Source: Jay Ritter, University of Florida
24. 24
Many companies that would in the past have
done an IPO are now doing late-stage
private rounds.
As you get to $40+ million rounds, these are
effectively “quasi-IPOs.”
These deals have different financials,
investors, and risk profiles to classic venture.
25. 25
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
US tech IPO vs. quasi-IPO late-stage rounds ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Mix shifted from IPO to late-stage rounds
Quasi-IPOs are now 75% of investment dollars vs. 40% in the bubble
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $40m+
IPO
26. 26
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
US tech IPO versus quasi-IPO late stage rounds ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Public and private tech funding merge
And at modest levels – even combining public and private financing
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $40m+
Private $1-40m
IPO
27. 27
As IPOs are delayed, returns move from
public to private investors.
Thus, traditional public market investors and
buyout funds, who would not typically invest
in companies at this stage, have moved into
the private markets.
28. 28
0
5
10
15
20
1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Number of top 20 US tech deals with participation from non-traditional investors
Non-traditional investors drive growth rounds
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
29. 29
Because the returns have moved
Tech returns used to be in public markets – have now shifted to private
* Market cap at IPO. Source: Capital IQ
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Apple
(1980)
Microsoft
(1986)
Oracle
(1986)
Amazon
(1997)
Google
(2004)
Salesforce
(2004)
LinkedIn
(2011)
Yelp
(2012)
Facebook
(2012)
Twitter
(2013)
Private versus public market value creation for select public US tech companies
Public value
creation*
Private value
creation
30. 30
Almost all the returns are now private
Old world tech giants returned plenty in public markets – new ones have not
Note: see endnotes for methodology. Source: Capital IQ, Pitchbook, Quora, a16z
0x
200x
400x
600x
800x
1000x
1200x
Apple
(1980)
Microsoft
(1986)
Oracle
(1986)
Amazon
(1997)
Google
(2004)
Salesforce
(2004)
LinkedIn
(2011)
Yelp
(2012)
Facebook
(2012)
Twitter
(2013)
Private versus public market return multiples for select public US tech companies
Public value
creation
Private value
creation
32. 32
741
374 369
277
212 199
171 151 151 145
111
77
40 38 29
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Market Cap ($bn)
Finally, all unicorns combined = ~1 Facebook
If you’re investing for growth, would you rather own 2/3 of Microsoft or the index of
unicorns?
Note: Market cap data as of 6/5/15. Source: Capital IQ, CB Insights
All 61 $1bn+
US tech
“unicorns” as
of 6/9/15
All $1bn+ US
tech
“unicorns” ex
Uber
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech VC fund inflows ($bn, 2014 dollars)
No surge in VC fundraising
Source: NVCA, a16z
VC funding is growing moderately
2014
35. 35
And relative to output, fundraising is down
VC funding as a percentage of tech GDP is down by half from 1980
Note: Value-added Tech GDP used for Tech GDP. Source: BEA, NVCA, a16z
0%
3%
6%
9%
12%
15%
18%
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
US tech VC fund inflows as % of tech GDP
2014
36. 36
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Dollars raised by round cohort and year ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Large rounds raise lots of money (obviously)
Overall dollars raised are dominated by quasi-IPOs (which arguably aren’t even really VC)
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $40m+
Private $25-40m
IPO
Private $10-25m
Private $1-10m
37. 37
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Dollars raised by round cohort and year ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Funding looks more moderate elsewhere
The total money going into deals under $40m is back to 2001 levels
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $25-40m
Private $10-25m
Private $1-10m
38. 38
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Companies raising rounds by round cohort and year (000s)
Late-stage is a small part of the ecosystem
But things are changing elsewhere, as the number of companies raising capital has doubled
since 2009
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Private $40m+
Private $25-40m
IPO
Private $10-25m
Private $1-10m
39. 39
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Indexed US tech funding for $1m-$40m rounds (2014 dollars)
More rounds, smaller rounds
2.5x more rounds while the round size dropped by a third – the mix is shifting
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Average round
size
Number of rounds
Aggregate $
raised
40. 40
The collapse in the cost of creating tech
companies in the last two decades means
many more are being created.
With each one needing less money to get
started, there are a lot more small rounds.
That is, there is a surge in seed-stage
funding.
41. 41
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of rounds by cohort
Seed rounds have grown dramatically
$1-2m rounds have increased over 7x in the last decade (and this data probably doesn’t
capture all of them)
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
$3-6m rounds
$1-2m rounds
42. 42
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Aggregate US tech investment by round size cohort ($bn, 2014 dollars)
But absolute seed dollars remain small
Amount raised in $1-2m rounds is up 7x over 10 years, but still only $1.1bn (~5% of all sub-
$40m deal funding)
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
$1-2m rounds
$3-6m rounds
43. 43
0
5
10
15
20
25
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+
Total private + IPO funding by company age at funding, 1995-2014 ($bn, 2014 dollars)
Company age makes the shift clearer
The bubble saw a surge of funding of very young companies that’s not been repeated
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
1999–2001
2012–2014
44. 44
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Total US tech funding by age cohort ($bn, 2014 dollars)
55% of bubble $ to <2 year old companies
Versus 80% of current funding going to +3-year-old companies
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
0-2 years old
+3-year-old
45. 45
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of US tech deals by company age at round
Deal volume is back up…
More tech companies are being created
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
0-2 years old
+3-year-old
46. 46
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Average US tech funding size by age at funding, IPO and private ($m, 2014 dollars)
But round sizes are down for early-stage
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
0-2 years old
+3-year-old
47. 47
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
350%
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Indexed US tech funding for 0-2 year old companies (2014 dollars)
The cost of tech company creation is falling
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Average round
size
Number of rounds
Aggregate $
raised
48. 48
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Indexed US tech funding for 0-2 year old companies (2014 dollars)
Let’s take a closer look at round size
Average round size is flat over the last 6-7 years, while deal count has more than doubled
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
Average round
size
Aggregate $
raised
49. 49
Less money, more money
Which one do you want to believe? Both!
Order of magnitude reduction in the cost of
creating a software company
Shift from expensive hardware and
software to cloud, open source, GitHub,
etc.
So, more company creation, more rounds,
smaller round sizes
The seed surge
It’s never been cheaper to create software
companies
Funding is cheap
But scaling to address 3bn people is not
War for talent (and office space) in SF
Round sizes for hot deals have moved
upwards
But scaling to address the opportunity
costs money
50. 50
The shift in mix
Less money, more early stage
Source: Capital IQ, a16z
70.9
48.1
1999 2014
Total funding by deal type ($bn, 2014 dollars)
$1-10m $10-25m $25-40m $40m+ & IPO
2,192
2,293
1999 2014
Number of companies raising rounds
$1-10m $10-25m $25-40m $40m+ & IPO
51. 51
Round sizes are mostly flat (to down).
Late-stage round sizes are not spreading
down the chain.
It’s never been cheaper to build a tech
company.
Company creation is increasing (good!).
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A note on data
Sharing the perspectives and analyses presented in this deck required a time series of overall funding. However, there is no source of
comprehensive (let alone granular) deal-level data that goes back before the late 1990s. Therefore, we were obliged to vet and combine
incomplete data from multiple sources.
Where some data sets were more comprehensive on broad parameters but limited in historical range, others were broader than our
definitions of software tech (e.g., they included medical devices). There were other screening differences as well; for example as larger
deals became more commonplace but were not referred to as “venture” funding, we looked to a different source that would allow us to
roll up that deal-level data as shown in this deck.
To ensure as much rigor as possible in sourcing our data, we compared data from several sources against each other and then collated
and de-duped it into a master data set for a few years which we then checked for accuracy across each of those sources to determine
the best ones. While there are many caveats (and counterarguments!) we could make about the data given various tradeoffs, here are
some of the key things to note when reviewing this deck:
1. Historical transaction-level data is much more robust after 1996 than before it. We also had to fuse together different data sets, using
Jay Ritter & NVCA before 1996 and Capital IQ after 1996 and merging them at the join.
2. The data set for age at funding is not complete and becomes less complete the further back we go, especially before 1996. From 1998
to 2001 we are also missing founding year data for 20% of deals, versus 3% for later deals. The missing companies will skew heavily to
small and/or young companies, so adding this data would show an even greater swing than the one we point to in this presentation.
Notes for slide 30: Microsoft, Oracle & Amazon Series A valuations assumed at $3m for illustrative purpose; Series A to IPO represents
return multiple from Series A valuation to market cap at first close post-IPO