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The rise of the vertical reputation graph

Version One Ventures

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. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. VC Firm. $

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

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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A Place To Call Your Own: Building Your Brand’s Vertical Social Network

YoungUpstarts

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By Vanessa Richardson. Better spot customers’ needs.

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Traction for Your Startup: How to Get It & How Much is Enough

ReadWriteStart

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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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

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. >> The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .