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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The company, comprised of Piers Mummery, Craig Holloway and Christian McGuinness, already has regulatory approval for its first fleet of 25 vehicles from Transport for London and already managed to secure a significant £680,000 seed investment in May this year.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Often, investors miss out on vertically focused companies like RigUp as they find themselves overly anxious about TAM (total available market). based teachers.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. We tested this on two completely temporary replicas of our sites for Canada (independent.ie/ca/)

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12 Questions: Meet Edward Laurin (Canada)

crowdSPRING Blog

Great learning experience and worked with some very creative folks outside the design realm – computer programmers, engineers and product managers are creative people too! Stashed in the recently found (almost perfect) vertical laptop bag. Related posts: 12 Questions: Meet Ann Lowe (Canada). Thanks, Edward!

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Our Q2 2016 Round-Up

Version One Ventures

Hope you had a great Canada Day and Fourth of July weekend! They are all yet to be announced but include our first Fintech company, a dev tool company and knowledge management company. Data analysis for large verticals. Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies.