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Freemium is alive and kicking

David Cohen

Here’s the data: 2007: 10%. As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. All that’s new is old again.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.)

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Four Tips For Retaining And Motivating Your Staff

YoungUpstarts

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. There are several different structures a business can adopt in order to create efficient and well-received management practices.

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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. Or maybe you got booted from your job, like a lot of people got laid off in, I don’t know, 2006, 2007, 2008. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Total Raised: $366mm.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

Then Abinasha Karana from Bangalore, India, presented 10screens , a product for translating software use cases into robust specs. The pitch was very difficult to understand and needs a tremendous amount of work still, but, conceivably, the product could be a useful one for business analysts to define software specifications.

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If software. (10). ► 2007. (10). Software 2.0: