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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

This oversight resulted in a missed opportunity to collect primary user data—a cornerstone for the digital advertising business that tech giants like Facebook and Google capitalised on. Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out.

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The Real Promise of Gen AI: It’s in the Apps, Not the Pipes

VC Cafe

AI Agents and Vertical Opportunities AI agents represent a prime example of application-layer innovation. Instead of competing with established players like Microsoft in the B2B space or Meta and Google in advertising, startups can explore other verticals where AI can add significant value. AI-driven games and virtual worlds.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels.

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The Definitive Guide To Instagram Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, even for advertisers, but certainly for organic as well. TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. John Jantsch (04:04): So, so how, you know, when somebody comes to you and says, should I be on Instagram or TikTok?

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

This execution was actually presented in the board room by executives who thought it was a genuine advertisement by them. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Startup CEO New Years Resolutions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Improve the product. Internalize culture and values.

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