VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents? The lesson?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Once you can call a self-driving Uber/Lyft, the cost of transportation will fall ~75% (current driver take-rate), and probably 85–90% in the long run as cars are re-engineered to be designed as taxis first. This is pretty astonishing. Scale, scale, scale.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again. This might just change.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123