Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. For media sites like ours you are either growing traffic or or you are dying.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

We have media startups, healthcare startups, real estate tech startups, fintech startups—every kind of startup you can imagine. 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. New York is a multi-industry town.

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New York City New York Vertical Curation 97

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Independents: Millennial Media , Greystripe , Medialets , JumpTap , Mojiva.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Not only do podcasts create the best impressions (user experience) but podcast listeners are proven to take action more than any other media audience. I spent nearly 20 years working in senior management at a large media company (Fox), and for about half of that time, I was a “wantrepreneur” – without even knowing there was a name for it.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Advertising Curation Vertical 54

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We finally put together a platform to monetize our social media and we’re selling now…but it took me years to get this far, and it's nothing special or new… Can you sense my frustration? paired with b) user-submitted content and c) a few editors to curate. you bring over their media buyers.” The Red Sox had Babe Ruth.

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Curation Venture Capital Vertical Social Media 100

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

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. off topic.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

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.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

There is no doubt that mobile search will surpass desktop search this year and be the primary vertical marketers and small business owners must focus their time. They have our cross device personalized history, manually curated search cards, and real time information. The major question is what will mobile search look like.

Search 71

Search Mobile Marketing United States 71

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. This is a paid media buy on Facebook or Instagram through the influencers’ accounts vs. a brand’s account. Think; custom stock photography.

Software 49

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Content which bears social proof (including e.g. visual elements suggesting endorsement by news media, tastemakers, or one’s peer group) will, in A/B tests, often ROFLstomp absolutely equivalent content lacking social proof. There are, of course, other companies which make scads of money from carefully curated email lists.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Media Relations 101 for Your Startup – [link]. 12 Unique and Creative Shoes – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Now they can be, there are tons of hundreds of thousands of different ones that they can do, but you know, the amount of CEOs I've talked to who in the last five years built their business on a Tripoly or on social media or whatever, and say they could not possibly do that today. John Jantsch (08:26): Uh, that's true.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

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.

Curation 167

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

In a CNBC interview a few weeks ago he explained his vision : “We’re building the world’s largest niche, you know, media business. And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. And niche meaning at scale. Can AOL’s “About.com 2.0”

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

In a CNBC interview a few weeks ago he explained his vision : “We’re building the world’s largest niche, you know, media business. And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. And niche meaning at scale. Can AOL’s “About.com 2.0”

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? So I have a question for you, Jason. Is that kind of what you were talking about?

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In a single sentence, underwear company Stance make it explicitly clear who their audience is (“the fashion curator with street appeal”) and the benefits they’ll get by wearing their socks (sophistication). When you think of video on social media, other platforms may come to mind first (e.g., Image source ). TikTok and YouTube).

eCommerce 102

eCommerce Audience Differentiation Campaign 102

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. They’d upload a list of product terms and related topics— moisture resistant flooring adhesive, subfloor moisture proofing —and their keyword research tool would spit back hundreds of “0 searches per month” results.

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B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. And I was very thankful to have that sabbatical experience at Google and seeing that. So I’m just very excited.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. And I was very thankful to have that sabbatical experience at Google and seeing that. So I’m just very excited.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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.

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43