David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

Design 85

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . The most interesting that I’ve seen to date is Urbit , a combination of: 1) your own personal server that you can host locally or in the cloud and 2) a completely re-written operating system that is meant to radically simplify current code bloat and exist for centuries.

Web 193

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

Design 48

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In Seoul, retailer uses 3D QR codes and the sun to deliver discounts only during its quiet times - [link]. Designers: 9 Mistakes To Avoid For Successful Pitches!

Social Media 92

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Useful Legal Documents For Designers (PDF/DOC) – [link]. 45 Renders of Branding and Corporate Identity Design – [link]. Responsive Email Design – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Let’s see what we’ve learned in 100 years of designing controls and automation for aircraft cockpits and pilots, and what it might mean for cars. Aircraft Cockpits.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. While these strategies can be planned up to a year in advance, many efforts are no longer applicable due to the various restrictions that consumers are facing. If you haven’t updated your website design in years, now is the time!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #20- And as we all know, wowing the customer over and over is no easy task. 20- Target. 26- Bubble.io.

Entrepreneur 124

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 95

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. Tactics are the specific activities you’ll use to communicate with customers (for example, advertising on social media with a 20% discount code). Use semiotic analysis to design messaging that resonates. Both are critical.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers – [link]. An Amazing Round Up of Illustrations in Website Designs – [link]. Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link].

Social Media 88

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This means that more and more entrepreneurs are designing solutions to global problems, creating innovative products and services that meet real needs, and driving social change. Just looking at my own career, a decade ago, you literally couldn't find subscription software that also handled one-time payments.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Operational inefficiency due to lack of information and control. The first installment of this series covered Intvo , an AI-software designed to improve traffic safety. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. In advance of SXSW Pitch, Parks answered some questions about his startup experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. The second event was in Boulder. I first met the team at TechCrunch50.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. Is Government a good idea?

Software Review 48

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 5) Due diligence. 1) Market fund.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

Software Review 48

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. So perhaps a more accurate description was that the company was a “restart.” Blog at WordPress.com.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Manuge continues, “Corl connects to a business’ bank accounts, accounting software, payment processors, and other digital services to collect 10,000+ historical data points that are analyzed in real-time. We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours.

Revenue 60

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The story of why I started an education business is mostly due to growing up in a household of educators. Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. They are experienced professional programmers and designers who have a passion for teaching.

Miami 48

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” Discover how business-owners can design workshops that are fast, deliver strong results, and eliminate stress from the process. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I think now it's more about, I guess having a horizontal relationship with the people in your audience versus a vertical one.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! ($49

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. However, we’ve just started to see a decrease in GPU cost due to compute farms buying up graphics cards from failed crypto miners. If you weren’t working for LexSet, what would you be doing?

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Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

With Melio, small businesses can now pay their bills for free using a bank transfer or debit cards, payment approval workflows can be easily set up and due dates managed - all via one cloud platform. The integration of Melio by Vinosmith is a good example.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. Often, the layout is something their web designer came up without doing a thorough analysis or testing. (In

SEO 126

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

The initial consumer research that starts with “coffee grinder” may yield follow-up queries like “conical burr grinder reviews” as the searcher progresses toward a purchase. passive intent) for other information like maps, trail reviews, and photos. For example, “portable phone charger reviews” is pretty straightforward.

Search 126

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

Stock 71

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

Sometimes, products are designed to make all of their profit upon the recurring revenues from supplies or support. In examining mature software companies in vertical markets, one of my first questions is to ask for the percentage of total revenues coming from recurring sources – leased software, maintenance agreements, or monthly retainers.

Revenue 79

Revenue Software Review Vertical Valuation 79

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client.

SEO 131

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. Finally, our logo, the letter “O”, was designed in a way to signify the connection and exchange taking place between buyers and sellers.

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