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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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10 Effective Offline Marketing Ideas for Startups in 2015

Up and Running

Partner up with a vertical business for a joint campaign and share the costs for a premium billboard. There’s really no need to put together an in-house PR team for your company; you just need to create relationships with relevant media to get favorable coverage from the local journalists in your area. Get your own PR team.

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7 High-Performing Ecommerce Marketing Strategies for 2022

ConversionXL

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3. Tactics are the specific activities you’ll use to communicate with customers (for example, advertising on social media with a 20% discount code). Leverage FOMO in social media marketing.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies. And here’s the thing.