Curation Engineer Social Network Vertical 
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.
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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? One of the things we find, because we certainly threw out what can we do to make this more viral or to work more in a social way so that we can try to get more people on the system? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’
Genuine VC
DECEMBER 23, 2009
And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.
Genuine VC
DECEMBER 23, 2009
And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.
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