Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Yet, in my own work with various incubators, I am often struck by the lack of vertical focus. But if you believe software is eating the world, vertical industry by vertical industry, business process by business process, then we should start seeing more entrepreneurs pursuing vertically-centric strategies.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”. So this acquisition is worth more than $20m in revenue, which at the average revenue-multiple for public tech companies , yields $100m in market value.

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Balance Sheet Vertical Acquisition Revenue 242

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. Agora Cloud Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle. 406 Ventures.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. The benefits of using DataRails can clearly be seen in the rapid customer acquisition the company is experiencing and the overall excitement for the product among users.”

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Hiring Software Review Customer 138

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

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SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. This also makes it much more lucrative for him in the event that an acquisition happens in the medium term.

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Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights.

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Global Europe Software Review 62

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Notice the picture I link to from Paul Jozefak’s blog titled "Expanding Platform to the Cloud." " I must say that I came away quite impressed by Microsoft’s progress in its cloud and Windows Live strategy. Anyway, I am waiting for some other bloggers to summarize his discussion.

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Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. uTest , the crow sourced QA service on the cloud, raised $13 million in a C Round led by Scale Venture Partners. Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. more here and here ].

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Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. For example, let’s say you’re an enterprise software company that delivers an on-premise product, but now wants to pivot to delivering a SaaS product in the cloud. It’s a major change of direction that requires major changes.

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Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 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. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs. You say Google spends $10B on traffic acquisition. Andres Moran.

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Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM. Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. This approach works for both new account acquisition and account expansion. How Snowflake increased booked meetings by 75% through scaled hyper-personalization.

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Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For example, in computing platforms, the mainframe was superseded by the minicomputer, which was eclipsed by the PC, which was subsumed by client-server platforms, which in many ways has been replaced by cloud and mobile computing.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an extremely targeted approach (one-to-one rather than one-to-many), so it usually has a much higher customer acquisition cost (CAC). Take Dialpad , an AI-powered cloud communications platform that has integrated both teams to drive ABM success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Good analysis by @msuster about Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie & what Twitter should do at Chirp – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Very cool new word cloud app: use photos, docs, websites, shapes, images etc. The Edelman 2010 Trust Barometer – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Good analysis by @msuster about Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie & what Twitter should do at Chirp – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Very cool new word cloud app: use photos, docs, websites, shapes, images etc. The Edelman 2010 Trust Barometer – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

.” “We also see opportunity in fitness and health because, for many, this is serious fun” So Microsoft is going to create a category killer app for every “high-value” vertical? These are going to be big, strategic acquisitions too, well beyond the startup’s revenues and traction. Colour me skeptical.

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Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The JAIC is a tiny team, yet we have a product directorate with 32 products that we’re building across six verticals – all the way from warfighter health to Joint warfighting to Business Process automation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance. Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales.

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Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Since Pooja's likely to miss some folks walking in (gosh darn clouds!), Site-centric analysis is primarily focused on looking at direct competitors, or adjacent ones, and learning from what is happening with Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes on their website (desktop and/or mobile). Recommend changes.

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Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110