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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. A good example of a publisher adopting a gaming strategy is the NYT.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home.

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How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC

This is going to be BIG.

The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. New York is a multi-industry town. Curation of attendees and speakers is incredibly important—which is why you really need industry insiders to be in charge of the content and speaker invites.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do: Use LinkedIn, and later other social networks like Twitter, to curate a list of high-value, warmly-connected prospects. Here’s what you’re going for: New recipients per week: 150-300. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Open rates: 70%+.

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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. founder Justin Kan went old school and gained traction through coverage in newspapers (remember those?).