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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A 1) Industry reports.

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

The Next Web

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. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Oh, one more thing.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Most important: I needed the time I spent at TechCrunch to learn what was powerful about new media. It’s hard for someone who has only worked in old media to get it. Likewise, I needed to distill what elements of old media weren’t broken and should be worked back into the blogosphere. 2:1 to old folks.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Bill Gurley : Great.