View from Seed
OCTOBER 5, 2016
The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company. As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources. Affinity by industry.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley, Nick led operations at Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based social media insights company, which was the first to partner with Twitter in understanding brand sentiment.
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deal architect
MARCH 27, 2014
Most of the sessions at Oracle’s Industry Connect event in Boston this week were organized in vertical tracks. One of the few cross-industry sessions in the Grand Ballroom was a panel on Customer Experiences, hosted by Mike Webster, SVP at. Industry Commentary'
View from Seed
JUNE 22, 2016
So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on. Everyone jumped.).
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
When I founded the Spartan enterprise, I brought together experts in construction, marketing, sales, procurement, and a host of other verticals. Open, comfortable, and adaptable: Those words guided our workspace face-lift at our Boston command post. Therein lies the reason I’m such a firm believer in an active workspace.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) My first inkling that computing had a history (with deep military connections) was looking at the SAGE air defense computer at the Boston Computer Museum.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.
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