Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Another big driver according to Montgomery is that the tech industry has matured and is returning to its vertically integrated roots. As a result the bigger buyers will look to fill gaps in their vertically integrated offerings.

Technical Review 241

Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. Disrupt SF. Alexia Tsotsis. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. tips@techcrunch.com.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 120

The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

The company closed a large Seed Round in December 2012 from Mangrove Capital Partners and is “on track with our growth plans to follow up with a Series A round in Q1 or Q2 2014?. It’s through this partnership with Qinec that Price hopes Zesty will be able to expand through “all the other verticals” and, as importantly, outside of London.

Cloud 121

Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. It turns out that when you develop strong vertical content you often find you have great collaboration opportunities and don’t have to consider everybody a competitor.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Founded just last year in 2012, GameSaku quickly became Indonesia’s top mobile gaming blog – GameSaku.com went from nothing to generating over 800,000 monthly pageviews within 16 months and with just two full­-time staff.

Asia 259

Asia Acquisition Indonesia Singapore 259

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

And now, without further ado, here are the startups that make up the newest class of 500 Startups Fall 2012 accelerator class: BabyList: a baby registry that works like Pinterest enabling you to put anything online into your registry. Chewse: marketplace for groups to easily order great food.

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley Non-Compete API Vertical 217

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 13, 2013

I was going through some of my draft postings and ran into this one about Square from GigaOM Mobilize 2012 conference. Square is “building a vertically integrated a payment system” that can scale for every person and treat every person as a VIP. Back in late 2012, 35M total Americans have paid with Square.

Mobile 40

Mobile United States Vertical Employee 40

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 13, 2013

I was going through some of my draft postings and ran into this one about Square from GigaOM Mobilize 2012 conference. Square is “building a vertically integrated a payment system” that can scale for every person and treat every person as a VIP. Back in late 2012, 35M total Americans have paid with Square.

Mobile 40

Mobile United States Vertical Technology 40

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line. io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012. I truly love our team, our work, and our environment. So here we go with the third lesson from The Entrepreneur’s Essentials. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Dec.

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed. Source: AngelList. Source: Cambridge Associates.

Valuation 319

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. From the period of June to November 2012 they gained an additional 6,000 new customers. image source.

Software Review 117

Software Review Social Media Vertical Algorithm 117

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. May 31, 2012 at 8:21 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 9:45 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 10:52 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 11:46 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm. #. May 31, 2012 at 12:40 pm. #. May 31, 2012 at 1:35 pm. #. May 31, 2012 at 4:02 pm. #. May 31, 2012 at 4:15 pm. #.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed. Source: AngelList. Source: Cambridge Associates.

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will also be my last venture capital deal. Consider this.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

It offers custom reports, real-time updates, specific filtering, and easy organization of start-ups based on stage, vertical, geography, and Mattermark score (a proprietary index that measures momentum). The team are alumni of Y Combinator S12 as well as Batch 5 of 500 Startups in 2012. Why we’re excited.

Venture Capital 160

Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. Has the U.S. movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion smartphone users in 2012. For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed. Source: AngelList. Source: Cambridge Associates.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical.

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election. The polite version of my answer has been “Thanks for reaching out but we aren’t interested in investing in the politics vertical market.” I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup.

Web 126

Web Vertical Startup Social Media 126

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Feenix focuses on companies in the consumer space across a number of industry verticals including: multi-unit Food & Beverage operators, hospitality, managed workspace (office or food halls), location based entertainment venues, and various direct to consumer online companies.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. How will these trends impact the way we work, live and play?

Technology 174

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 21, 2013

The Backstory In March 2012 two designers, Sacha Greif and Jarrod Drysdale both released design ebooks on the same day (purely by chance). The packages were listed vertically, least expensive to most expensive. How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. Here’s how.

Sales 335

Sales Revenue Design Web 335

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

by Sarah Lacy on February 26, 2012. Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. link] February 27th, 2012 | Category: Entrepreneurship [.]. pandodaily.com/2012/07/18/the… 2 hours ago.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2012

A website link should take viewers to a page that succinctly explains the key concepts: The Main Thing of the business, vertical and horizontal alignment, how alignment will be measured, and frequently asked questions. © 2012 Dr. George H. It’s also important to describe the behaviors that will need changing. Dr. George H.

Cofounder 170

Cofounder Leadership Metrics Vertical 170

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Often these funds are attempting to build out a reputation or gain exposure to a new vertical. Here the later stage fund writes a substantial ($~500k) check quickly into the seed round, not necessarily being the only/lead funder, but definitely different than the ~$50-100k exploratory seed checks we saw from these guys in 2011-2012.

Later Stage 95

Later Stage Valuation Semantic Institutional Investors 95

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

They do this through vertical integration and special packaging--and that's where the technical innovation comes in. We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution. Newfound appreciation for rutabaga. You can have them next week.

Product 60

Product Term Sheet Vertical Community 60

justinmares.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Thoughts on Paul Graham’s “Growth” Posted on October 8, 2012 by admin. Think of several traction verticals that could potentially work for you, and come up with cheap ways to test them as acquisition channels. Figure that out, and then look at traction verticals you can take advantage of to hit those numbers.

Vertical 44

Vertical Lean Channel PR 44

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

DB: I met James Freeman, our founder and CEO, through one of our investors in the summer of 2012. Aside from basic financial and operational IT products, there is some awesome innovation happening across horizontals and verticals. Q: How’d you get connected to Blue Bottle Coffee and what role do you play on the team?

Technology 94

Technology Oakland Harvest Architecture 94

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. No statistical significance should be assumed from any data included here. Any errors or misinterpretations are his.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The adoption quickly exploded and in 2012, global smartphone adoption reached 1 billion users. There is no doubt that mobile search will surpass desktop search this year and be the primary vertical marketers and small business owners must focus their time. Emarketer predicts that in 2014, that number will balloon to 4.55

Search 71

Search Mobile Marketing United States 71

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? ► 2012. (1). Is Government a good idea? Review your marketing media allocation: offline media prices will go down and could generate attractive ROI, tradeshows might have less impact due to travel restrictions… G&A Manage your DSOs tightly – they will go up! (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

26 September 2012. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. 26 September 2012 at 10:10 am. #. 26 September 2012 at 10:35 am. #. 27 September 2012 at 1:55 am. #. 26 September 2012 at 11:10 am. #.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47