Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

It helps us reach a large audience in a personal way and a format which drives results above industry benchmarks. Limited integrations — Some users mention restrictions like the inability to connect with Google Ads, hampering marketing campaign optimization. “ Love Campaign Monitor “ “ Campaign Monitor very user friendly.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. Benchmark A benchmark is a standardized test set and metric used to compare AI models on a task.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.” He and his wife hatched the idea for DogVacay and decided to go for it. I’m sure of the value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. I believe that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the big hits is Varos’ Monday morning report of trends, where users see their weekly data versus weekly benchmarks. This is a new category of data analytics that helps users understand their own performance as it compares to direct competitors, Yarden Shaked added. Image Credits: Varos.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

In our experience, we found these risks fall into three major categories: market risk, execution risk, and founders’ risk. Annual revenue of $100 million serves as a good benchmark for achieving that valuation level. Finding low-risk investments that lead to lucrative business opportunities remains an important goal for these firms.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This project is part of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ initiative, which selects 50 outstanding companies in four categories based on technology development success, support from the ministry over the past five years, performance verification, and expert evaluation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

They are the clear category leader in an important and emerging field of data and standards at the intersection of climate, public health and the economy,” Ahn said in a statement. “Both governments and industry will need Aclima’s critical data and analytics to benchmark and accelerate progress to reduce emissions.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It creates a system of record for SaaS in an organization, showing how a company’s portfolio, licenses and pricing stack up against industry benchmarks. “Zylo helps CIOs and CFOs collaboratively manage the strategy around the most important and most distributed category of spend: subscription software,” he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s how the $20 million Opportunity Fund, Urban Innovation Fund’s first in this category, came about. Within the second fund, the company has made three investments within the vertical supply chain, a category she said the firm was “particularly excited about.” We were shocked by how fast it went.”. billion earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

And now others, of course, have built that functionality as well, but because that was our primary focus, we delivered a best-in-category experience with higher conversion rates when benchmarked to other solutions,” she explained. And that is appealing because from there we build other use cases with our customers.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spryker is part of that category of e-commerce businesses known as “headless” providers — by which they mean those using the tools do so by way of API-based architecture and other easy-to-integrate modules delivered through a “PaaS” (clould-based Platform as a Service) model.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sessions will include DeepMind and Benchmark. For founders and investors curious about an emerging category, these sessions are a chance to cross-pollinate. Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We’re launching our own scout program and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AI is just like a new and interesting piece of infrastructure that lets you solve a new category of problems or solve an old category of problems in better ways. Quantitative benchmarks like GLUE and SUPERGLUE have long been used as standardized measures of AI model performance. I kind of think all the benchmarks are b t.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Another in that category is OctoML , which automatically optimizes, benchmarks and packages models for an array of different hardware. But none of what roughly-70-employee Modular is proposing is out of the realm of possibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. But in the LP world there is an obsession with “top quartile” benchmarking in the near term, which drives skewed incentives for newer VCs to show quick returns.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We’re launching our own scout program, and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: . Clearvision Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps other entrepreneurs build category leading companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The model is divided into three main categories: Performance, Must-Haves, and Delight. To create a value proposition, it is essential to study the different categories and decide which customer needs you will solve. Launch platforms: Platforms like ProductHunt offer a great way to test a value proposition.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

There’s a nuance here: while there are low odds that they have direct experience in your industry or category, investors are experts in fundraising and assessing different businesses. Ensure that you explain important dynamics and benchmarks that are relevant to your business. The difference is important. Then tell me.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

Develop a content roadmap guided by data; create insightful, audience-centric multimedia resources; focus on earning authority through strategic link building; and benchmark your efforts using smart KPIs beyond just traffic metrics. Ultimately, both customers and search engines appreciate our single-track focus on our niche.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If R&D is so critical to a company’s success, why then do R&D budgets lack the same discipline of other spend categories? Here’s how I wish more growth-stage teams approached their R&D spend: Use benchmarks to initially ballpark your overall spend (but remember there are good reasons to vary from benchmarks).

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

And this includes things like competitive intelligence and benchmarking, right? Craig Cannon [41:21] – Yeah, if Amazon was all classified in one category, that would not be good. So we fall into this general category. ” And I think Second Measure might easily become into that category as well for a lot of investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Recently however, after witnessing the incredibly founder-friendly fundraising landscape, our advice has been to put the pedal to the metal, reach certain benchmarks and raise capital. replace existing products that are aging, low performance) or a new category. is a great example of a new category we invested in early on.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We hope you’ll upload your own thesis to benchmark yourself. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. For the first time, we are sharing here our initial conclusions. 36 theses pulled directly from U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The new funding was led by Glade Brook Capital Partners, with participation from GV, Tao Invest, Finistere Ventures and Rich’s, as well as previous investors Benchmark Partners, Index Ventures, S2G, DNS Capital and Obvious Ventures. .” Good Eggs CEO Bentley Hall. Glade Brook’s J.P.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

While large swathes of the tech community focus on comparing model performance to public benchmarks, enterprise leaders are more focused on comparing the performance of fine-tuned open-source models and fine-tuned closed-source models against their own internal sets of benchmarks. Use cases: more migrating to production 14.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Since then, many major categories of software have been saasified. But it’s not the MRR milestones or the payback period benchmarks that have changed. Machine learning, broad consolidation, category creation, and new distribution models each will change the SaaS ecosystem in fundamental ways.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When it comes to building and scaling a cloud business, leaders at all stages wonder what “typical” and “best-in-class” look like — and, while they’re some of the most helpful financial data points in the world, private market financial benchmarks remain some of the most elusive. How to Scale with Usage-based Pricing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. By handling large amounts of data to analyze and benchmark lines of business, BI promises to help identify, develop, and otherwise create new revenue opportunities.

opportunity 86

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the evaluation, each applicant receives a Digital Analytical Scorecard experience that provides an overview of how their application scored against the World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees in key categories.

peer-to-peer 90

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

But recently, a few savvy consumer founders have found ways to improve retention by applying specific methods — in some cases, increasing their N-Day D30 retention by a whopping 10-15% (which our benchmarking study identifies as going from “okay” to “great”). Users can compete in categories ranging from “Poses” to “Comedians” to “Critics.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

But the picture doesn’t brighten even after broadening out to all categories of advertising. As Paul Roetzer writes for Marketing AI Institute, AI without rich data sets can quickly fall short of accuracy benchmarks — especially when executives have unrealistic expectations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

” “[I] believe a new category of digital team based tools will emerge. Second, they get intelligence on how the teams are performing against benchmarks and learn where to target their support and how to better enable and retain their employees.” “C-suite leaders buy the platform for two reasons.

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