If you visit Korea, especially Seoul, you will see that Fintech is everywhere and has now become a standard practice for many industries. Funding for the Fintech industry reached over $55 billion in 2018 and that number will increase in 2019. Korean Fintech startups and companies have made the...
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젠서 투자 유치 “생태계·인프라 확장 나설 것”

제닉스스튜디오의 블록체인 기반 사물인터넷 플랫폼 젠서가 LT캐피탈로부터 전략적 투자와 업무협약을 체결했다고 밝혔다. 투자 금액은 비공개. 젠서는 건물 설비에 설치하는 센서와 수집 데이터를 취합해 통신을 하는...
Financial Media Firm Reorg Strengthens In Asia, Buys Dai1 Media

Reorg, a financial media and technology company, has announced that it has acquired Dai1 Media, a subscription-based provider of news, insights and analysis regarding China. The post Financial Media Firm Reorg Strengthens In Asia, Buys Dai1 Media appeared first on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading...
“선후배 여성벤처인 100여명 한자리에…”

한국여성벤처협회가 12월 6∼7일 2019 대한민국 여성벤처CEO 혁신아카데미_더퀸즈를 개최했다. 올해로 5회째를 맞은 더퀸즈는 여성벤처기업인이 한자리에 모여 한 해를 마무리하고 새로운 도약을 다짐하는 자리. 김동환...
India’s Glance Accelerates Growth in SEA, Hires More in Singapore

Glance is the world’s first screen zero platform, enabling consumers to experience the best of the internet on screen zero of their smartphones and other connected devices. The post India's Glance Accelerates Growth in SEA, Hires More in Singapore appeared first on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading...
Relay Network gets $30 million funding from LLR Partners

Pennsylvania-based Relay Network, the leading personalized mobile engagement company for the enterprise, has completed a $30 million growth capital investment from LLR Partners.The capital will be used to accelerate innovation of its breakthrough customer engagement platform and growth within...
NexPhase Sells Software Firm FAST to Verisk for $193.5 million

NexPhase Capital, LP has agreed to sell Flexible Architecture & Simplified Technology LLC (FAST), a software company for the life insurance and annuity industry, to Verisk Analytics Inc.The purchase price is $193.5 million subject to the completion of customary closing conditions.NexPhase,...
‘LG 듀얼 스크린’ 이번엔 일본…소뱅 ‘바스켓Live’ 서비스

LG전자가 ‘LG 듀얼 스크린’과 ‘LG G8X 씽큐'(V50S 씽큐)를 앞세워 일본 프리미엄 스마트폰 시장을 공략한다. 일본은 미국, 캐나다와 브라질에 이은 LG 듀얼 스크린의 4번째 해외 출시 국가다.LG전자는 최근 소프트뱅크를 통해 LG G8X...
“공간·시간 경계 허문…O2O 예술 전시회 열린다”

예술 문화 분야에서도 O2O 바람이 거세다. 기존 오프라인 중심으로 전시회를 진행하던 화랑이 ‘온라인 전시회 플랫폼’ 테크 기업과 손잡고 전시회 분야에서 O2O 시장의 첫걸음을 디디고 있다. 오프라인에서 주로 진행되던...
레이어2부터 스마트컨트랙트까지…비트코인 스택 기술의 진화 주목하라

학습 차원에서 틈틈히 해외 전문가들이 블로그나 미디어 그리고 책에서 쓴 글을 정리하고 있습니다. 이번 포스팅도 그중 하나고요. 거칠고 오역된 부분이 있을 수 있습니다. 제대로 번역되지 않은 부분은 확인주시면 반영토록...
AWS re:Invent 2019 비하인드 스토리

클라우드 산업 업계의 최대 행사인 AWS re:Invent 2019가 마무리되었습니다. 6만 5천여명의 참가자를 대상으로 3천개가 넘는 강연 세션이 진행되었으며, 천 여명이 넘는 한국 고객도 함께한 즐거운 시간이었습니다. 그동안 매일...
Product Launches Become the Operating Cadence of a Startup

In November, two spectacles occurred. The first is Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual event and the largest software conference in the world. The second is Elon Musk announcing the Tesla Cybertruck. Benioff and Musk use these events strategically. They engender an operational cadence to Salesforce and...
Benchmarking Your Sales and Customer Success Teams

Our portfolio company Chorus.ai released the State of Conversational Intelligence 2020. The report uses data from 5m sales and customer calls to benchmark sales team performance. There’s lots of great data in the report. Some of the data reaffirms rules of thumb. For example, the typical win rate...
Last week's post on The Most Frequent Mishire in Startups generated the most comments on a post this year. In particular, it was this section. Though the startup may have achieved product market fit, the company may not understand the fit. Who is using the product and why? How does the buyer...
The Most Frequent Mishire in Startups

The most frequent mishire in startups is the first head of marketing. Many different disciplines fall under marketing's purview. The question facing founders recruiting marketers is: which is the most important to prioritize? Marketing expertise falls into three segments: product marketing, demand...
Notes from Office Hours with Nick Mehta

A few weeks ago, we were fortunate to welcome Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight to SaaS Office Hours. I learned a lot from the session about how customer success has evolved over the last 5 to 10 years. Here are my notes from the session. The discipline of customer success varies widely depending on...
Next week, on November 14, Redpoint will host Office Hours with Anthony Kennada to talk about category creation. In the SaaS world, many businesses talk about creating new categories. To achieve this is rare, and it's incredibly challenging to do. Anthony was a key part of the team at Gainsight...
A few weeks ago, I installed Windows on my Mac using BootCamp. BootCamp allows you to have both operating systems on your computer at the same time and choose the one you want to use when. I was curious about Windows. So I installed it and tried to use it for a few days. Here are my impressions....
Welcoming Travis Bryant, Again!

In January, we welcomed Travis Bryant to join Redpoint as an Executive-in-Residence. Nine months later, we are welcoming him again as our first Partner of Founder Experience. Travis has always been one to think about ways to change the game. He excelled during his time at Salesforce and helped...
What I’ve learned about IPOs and Direct Listings

Today is the anniversary of Spotify IPO, which was the first direct listing of a technology company. It was championed by Barry McCarthy, the former CFO of Netflix and the current CFO of Spotify. Since then, Slack has also listed directly. And the combination of these two events has created a...
On Humility and Making Better Decisions

Dr. Daniel Kahneman features on the latest Farnam Street podcast and it’s a surprising episode. Kahneman wrote Thinking Fast and Slow. I admire Kahneman a great deal. Not for his Nobel or for his work, which are both impressive, but for his humility. Some of the key tenets of Kahneman’s work in...
The One Thing Every Marketer Should Do

Marketers tend to be very reactive.And it makes sense because every time a search engine or a social network changes their algorithm, we jump as marketers.We are conditioned to be very reactive. Whether it’s your boss who is pissed that your traffic dips or even yourself… everyone hates...
An Inside Look at Google’s Future Plans

Everyone talks about algorithm updates, but Google does a whole lot more than adjust algorithms.Some of the moves they are making are really going to impact your marketing efforts.So, what are these non-algorithm changes?Well before I get into them, keep in mind that you aren’t going...
I Need Your Help With Ubersuggest

It’s been more than a year since I launched the “new” Ubersuggest.And over the last 12 months, I have made a lot of progress.Just as a quick recap: Ubersuggest went from a basic keyword research tool to now containing backlink data, rank tracking, content ideas, site audit reports,...
Writing a blog post is easy.If you don’t write often, you may feel otherwise, but just follow this and you’ll be good to go when it comes to writing. Or, you can just watch the video below.But still, you write a blog post and then what do you do?Well, I’ll tell you this… most...
Marketing Trends for 2020: Here’s What Will Happen That Nobody is Talking About

The new year is right around the corner. And I know you are already prepared because you read this blog and tons of other marketing blogs, right?But here is the thing: I also read most of the popular marketing blogs, follow all of the marketing YouTube channels, and listen to the same podcasts...
How Google’s Bert Update Will Affect Content Marketing

Google announced that it has been rolling out a new update called Bert.I know what you are thinking… does this update really matter? Should I even spend time learning about it?Well, Bert will affect 1 in 10 search queries.To give you an idea of how big of an update this is, it’s the...
Hi, I’m Neil Patel, Co-founder of NPDigital. Ask Me Anything!

Today, I thought I would do something a bit different, as 66.9% of my website traffic is brand new.For those of you who don’t know, my name is Neil Patel and I’m the co-founder of a digital marketing agency called, NPDigital, where we help companies of all sizes get more traffic and...
The Real Secret to My Social Media Success

The other day I was recording a podcast episode with my co-host Eric Siu and he wanted to discuss something in particular.He wanted to talk about how I got to 62,000 Instagram followers in a very short period of time and without spending any money on ads or marketing.Eric is a great...
The Ultimate List of Free SEO Tools

Who says you have to spend money to get more traffic?For today’s blog post, I thought it would be fun to break down all of the free SEO tools. Sure you may know of some, like Ubersuggest, but there are many more options than just my own tool.Now before I dive into the tools, I’ve broken...