YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Obsessive curation of the brand experience. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, o ur new blog houses curated collections and easy-to-find content filters, allowing you easier access to the posts we’ve written over the years, for years and years to come. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

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. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Which of your client verticals are your champions? The strategy in a nutshell.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

The way we learn about our clients and present their curated wardrobe is a luxury experience—the client doesn’t need to have a sartorial vocabulary for us to understand their needs and wants. Being able to master each of those verticals while staying relatable to my clients is what makes me so successful.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

.” Inertia is too strong and companies like Spotify, which solve this via search, curation and personalization, are increasing their share of podcast market. You could try a theSkimm for podcasts – newsletter based summary and recommendations for target demographic or content vertical.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. It offers custom reports, real-time updates, specific filtering, and easy organization of start-ups based on stage, vertical, geography, and Mattermark score (a proprietary index that measures momentum).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30).

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2013

There’s a good post on Business of Fashion this morning which identifies four ecommerce models that are working in fashion: Social curation (which they helpfully define as ‘product discovery and connecting people to inspiration’). Vertically integrated ecommerce. Collaborative consumption. Online market places.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop – [link]. 20 Fabulous Photoshop Web Interface Tutorials – [link]. 12 Unique and Creative Shoes – [link].

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

Proprietary selection (aka curation) – e.g. companies that build their brand and community around their product selection like Nastygal and Modcloth. Proprietary merchandise – e.g. vertically integrated retailers like Bonobos and WarbyParker.

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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

The advice, connections, and customers they seek are in all sorts of different verticals, and so it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to build out a conference where paying hundreds of dollars and spending a day makes sense to someone if only 10% of the content and audience is relevant. Mix up the formats.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

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. A Move back to vertical living – Years ago we used to live above the store, or behind the craftsman’s workshop. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

In this scenario the shop has generated the (foot) traffic and created a sale through curation and/or recommendation. In other words – they need to curate and/or recommend products that people don’t know, or aren’t sure, they want. Examples from our portfolio include Thread.com , Patch , and Snaptrip.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Andy Dunn of Bonobos , a vertical web retailer, will be driving attention to one of their core values in 2011: Focus on self-awareness, the core trait of leaders, both people and firms. Developing products based on knowledge of our strengths and curating products based on knowledge of our weaknesses.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 25, 2014

These marketplaces are the easiest in some sense because all of the curation, filtering, and matching is really done by the users. These consist of a curated listing with professional photos and an up-to-date calendar of availability. A typical workflow: Buyer posts job. Buyer invites candidates AND Candidates apply to job.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2012

I asked them to curate a conference--just as a mental exercise, not for real. We talked about focusing on horizontals and verticals--like financial education, technology's affect on art or mobile food. Taken in the context of a conference, no one thought that a generic marketing conference seemed that interesting.

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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. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? Curate one side. One way to make things function reasonably well at low volumes is to curate one side. There is a question of whether a curated marketplace is really a marketplace at all, but so what? Curation is really important. See: Ebay. See: Exec.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Today we’re announcing that Lightpseed and Accel are investing in Bonobos , a vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer. We believe that they are the leading pureplay vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer, and are well positioned, and well capitalized, to expand on their leadership position.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Wondery’s founder and CEO, Hernan Lopez, the former CEO of Fox International Channels, focused the platform’s programming on entertainment, true crime, audio drama, personal growth, business, and the home/family verticals. Within two days, I came up with a short list, among which “Wondery” (“the factory of Wonder”) was my favorite.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. Here’s why: Verticalized content needs context not just collections. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation. 99 per month subscription service to deliver a handful of curated YouTube videos to you each day.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

paired with b) user-submitted content and c) a few editors to curate. Someone is going to hand this guy some cash one day and I have no doubt he’ll build the HuffPo for this vertical, which is huge. Why pay writers when people will pen anything they want for free? They wrote for free! Why are they bragging about that?

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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. There are a lot of different ways a startup can achieve traction for their product.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

Unless… crowd-funding sites adapt to be highly curated and controlled – and focus on brokering introductions and facilitating transactions and less on direct online investments. Right now, they’re at the Peak of Inflated Expectations, but I suspect that they are headed for the Trough of Disillusionment. AngelList is a phenomenal platform.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. Also, Titash Neogi from Pune, India, pitched Themeefy , a publishing platform for self-publishers that helps users create, curate and publish books, magazines, etc.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2016

We were much more curated and signed people who we believed in holistically. Do you think vertical content (Multi-Channel Networks) MCNs are the future? In terms of the vertical specific, that is the future. So, technically we were an MCN, but that was more a function of the landscape when we started than a business model.

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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. Chewse: marketplace for groups to easily order great food. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The line of Amazon Basics is incredibly carefully curated, selected, and maintained. You could say this is vertical integration or a move to full-stack or managed marketplaces. I’m willing to bet that they are best sellers in almost every category. Take it as a mission.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

Startups are attacking just about every vertical. I also believe a marketplace can build a brand around trust and quality by being very proactive about curation and adding standard services like certifications, background checks, and insurance. . Perhaps because it’s unsexy and support calls may be life or death situations.

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