2004 Founder Operations Vertical 
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
For me, I have at least two years of active board and observer commitments to roll off of and far more time before all the founders I’ve backed hit (or miss, I suppose) their ultimate goal of returning lots of money to their investors. No more founder pitch meetings. It has been a career that fits my personality well.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 7, 2022
Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. So if you can imagine you have a vertical access on that access, you have high value at the top. You low value at the bottom.
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Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed. Company : BricaBox.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 19, 2018
When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. It’s an app that makes training easy while building a better operations manual for your company. Thanks to Jessica L.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s like arguing against vertical software. Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. net implementation.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.
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