This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. Our emphasis is on community, not commodity, and it’s about quality, not quantity. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. That’s Toptal in a nutshell -- the best talent, from all over the world, accessible and ready to work.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Cofounder 40

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Statistics and distribution of forests by age, stock, height, weight and biological productivity. Satellite imagery is now available and affordable via numerous software and can be easily accessed online. Study of the forest species.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

We think it’s inevitable that this vertical will undergo the same digital transformation as every other major commerce category and we’ve made two investments behind this thesis ( Paintzen and Renoviso ) and will be expecting to do more around the construction and renovation space in the years to come. The easiest example is around community.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

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Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 48

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. Similarly at GrabCAD , where CAD engineers collaborate and create in a community, the collective output has been remarkable.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. However, if your goal is to foster loyalty, a more community-based platform like Reddit or Quora may be better suited.

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

Craftsy is a community of people who love to make things - knitters, quilters, sewers, jewelers. ” We invested in Sympoz in our Distribution theme , but it has this special characteristic around its community that felt a little different to us. .”

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Jun-15: Community Manager (growth team). 1x hacker in charge of product/development. this drops by $0.30-$0.50

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Transcript of Investing in Small Businesses to Do Good for the Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We really believe in the thesis of the show is that if you have a strong, small business core that any community or town can thrive. Back to Podcast. Transcript. So, let’s talk about the town.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , FilmChain is the first collection service to use the blockchain technology to provide payment automation, lower the costs of film revenue collection and distribution, and significantly speed up the money flow end-to-end. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The notion that tremendous value is created by a very small percentage of startups, and the financiers behind this businesses are counting on a few of these companies to make up for all the nonperforming investments is called a power law distribution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lows, common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. We're gonna build websites for a lot of different Shopify stores. I've got an idea.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Pixar was at the forefront of 3-D animation and storytelling but had no knowledge of the movie industry or distribution channels. By partnering, Pixar now had expert guidance and financial backing to distribute and sell their masterpieces. Business communities can be like high school cliques. Opens up your network.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lowest common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. We're gonna build websites for a lot of different Shopify stores. I appreciate that.

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Framework Vertical Hosting Networking 80

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. Flow tokens are available on CoinList until October 2 as part of its community sale. Shippo published the Online Selling Handbook.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Organic social: Build a community. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Many growth marketers will include “Awareness” in their model to tackle experimentation at the top of the funnel.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2006

This would allow Google to leverage its strength – online distribution and a huge user community. In addition as more users sign up, I could see Google offering APIs so that its own users could build custom templates for certain verticals ala Salesforce’s community approach.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(Source: SNC, IVC, public data and Remagine Ventures’ data ) The Israel generative AI startup landscape (September 2023) At Remagine Ventures , we’ve been interested in tools for content creation, distribution and monesation from day one.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., the Untouched Vertical.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. Our community colleges are excellent as well.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

Key marketing tactics including pricing, messaging, and distribution, while others are about positioning your business against the background of the other offerings. You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. Competitive positioning. How do you stack up against the others?

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Business Plan Technical Review Software Review Vertical 109

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. I have enjoyed pando as you build your community. “It’s hard to create a company like this as a kid,” he says. Semil Shah. Jebb Dykstra.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Fanatastic.com will be a sports community site encouraging users to share and discuss latest sports news.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Whenever I looked over at him, he was on the Stocktwits web site communicating with the stock community he’s helped create and loves. He loves the community of people that care about stocks. While Foundry Group generally avoids investing in vertical markets, we make an exception for our Distribution theme.

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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.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive.

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Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

See: Behance , Dribbble , Carbonmade Build community  If you can establish a healthy and vibrant community on either side of the equation, youll end up with the potential for a great marketplace. Now you have a trusted recommendation to try a service and you get free distribution to all employees. See: Ebay.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” And then, the second piece is really that fragmentation is our friend.

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