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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

Austin Startup

From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. All of this is located exactly at the crossroads between Europe and North America. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Incubating companies.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Incubating companies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

ReadWriteStart

Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

ReadWriteStart

He has run some experiments within the entrepreneurship training vertical, and has seen success when he has brought on known thought leaders. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy. Gagan has about 150 completed courses on the site so far, and about 10 of those are monetizing.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. Accelerator programs are becoming more and more vertical and pulling together corporate and institutional support that provides investment, purchasing power, and validation.

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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). Whether you’re trying something new or planning to attack a more saturated vertical like beauty or fashion, if you don’t love what you’re doing, you’ll lose your motivation to keep creating.