David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

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. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport. TaxiCast by London-based BrightMove Media wants to revolutionize advertising on taxis.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Imagine if this sector continued to operate with mom-and-pop stores, where each store served a specific need and sold a specific product? and European lists. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Greylock Partners. But beyond that, not much. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We can already see what’s driving this: a wonderful mix of cloud computing, data and the APIs that glue it all together. Rogue apps, devices and clouds are causing more and more islands of information to form. Two parts of the same network operating as islands. Not “let’s get rid of the cloud” or “let’s get rid of internal IT.”.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. 42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none;punctuation-wrap:hanging">.42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;

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Vertical Syndicate Syndication Forecast 28

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Is Government a good idea? Post a Comment.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Yanai Oron, General Partner at Vertex, has said that his firm invested in DataRails because of the profile and strength of the platform’s positive reviews. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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Hiring Software Review Customer 138

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 02, 2006. Cracking the SMB code. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Notice the picture I link to from Paul Jozefak’s blog titled "Expanding Platform to the Cloud." " I must say that I came away quite impressed by Microsoft’s progress in its cloud and Windows Live strategy. Anyway, I am waiting for some other bloggers to summarize his discussion.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

From there, it further shifted to operating its own refrigerated warehouse and fleet of delivery vans to deliver organic foods directly from farmers and specialty suppliers. Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. Some pivots are just easier to pull off.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM. This allowed them to focus on one audience’s specific needs. Keep doing what works.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

Generative AI 88

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If the account matches your personas (whether that’s based on company size, operational processes, or expected deal size), then you can justify cost-intensive ABM approaches (like personalized gifts). To execute effectively on your product marketing strategy , marketing and sales need to operate as one unit.

Marketing 100

Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

However, you can also see it broken out in Microsoft’s own words: A business model based on partner and first-party devices with both consumer and enterprise services. The engineering team is being reorganised into 4 cross-device teams: OS, apps, clouds, and devices. Optimization for activities people value most.

Engineer 41

Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Parrish recognizes that Stoddard faces multiple challenges including: adapting to the cloud while assuring adequate security; betting on which technology platforms to go with; serving all functions at the company, not just marketing; and always doing more with less.

Algorithm 174

Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 174

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

We pull in cloud resources when we need them, creating private clouds between decvices that access the Libox Platform. Since we have APIs, we have opportunities for business models with media and content partners. Corporations and strategic partners, using the Libox platform. What’s the impact on performance on the PC?

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud?

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. It’s like arguing against vertical software. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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