VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. Next-gen avatars for next-level communication – AI gives consumers a hyperrealistic digital likeness they can use to instantly generate and share these assets.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of start-ups try to carve away parts of LinkedIn by being the “LinkedIn for x” – where x ranges from doctors, teachers, finance professionals, academics, lawyers, engineers, etc. They also give their users a better way to develop and curate their personal online brand beyond the LinkedIn resume.

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Vertical Reputation Portfolio Curation 60

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We had around 300 attendees and our room at the Terra Gallery was packed.

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas.

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Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Product – Lastly, what makes One Jackson unique is the source of the original clothing designs – a community of independent artisans.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. Other examples include creating events, speaking at conferences, social networking, search engine optimization and publicity stunts.

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Hockey Stick Startup Curation Vertical 130

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208