David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Alternative Capital. “

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

are what I’d categorize as “horizontal” – that’s to say, they don’t focus on a specific industry but rather try to help a group of startups generally advance their development. Now what DOES interest me? I root for any entrepreneur who brings drive, intelligence and integrity to their startup.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. You’re not joining a big company.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

KPCB, Sequoia) developed their core IT investment practices,” Ocko tells me, “It’s driving the same kind of multi-hundred-billion dollar economic transformation.” The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Crunchboard.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products. Expand into different verticals. Don’t spread across verticals too fast. Here are some of the main takeaways from Slava’s talk.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. These insights will help business leaders view information relevant to their specific marketplace. appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in. 5) liquidate their investment in each company at the highest possible price.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. While I don’t think founders expect a SWAT team to show up and build their startup with them, they do expect some high-leverage support in business development, executive recruiting, and capital formation.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Rather, buyer behavior is rooted in their strategy — a combination of product thesis, their theory of their market’s evolution, how they need to position for customers and against competitors, their long-term brand development, geographic expansion plans, and so on. Zoom out to see the strategic decision. This had to be remedied.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hungary probably wouldn’t sell their sovereignty and entire economy for 1x sales, but Apple has no debt so they could probably lever the deal and borrow money on top of $137 billion in equity. 3) Vertically Integrate - Apple could also vertically integrate in more radical ways.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms).

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Jeff Richards of US VC fund GSV Capital has a good post up today: Content, Community and Commerce: Why Verticals Win. His investment thesis is that vertical platforms combining content, community and commerce will make great investments over the next period, and he cites existing portfolio companies including Houzz as good examples.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2013

A founder with a good idea and solid strategy will have her pick of potential advisors in exchange for equity. Honchos are found by looking vertically. Honchos typically require meaningful equity compensation. Ask for their advice and offer them equity when their eyes light up with enthusiasm. So, how do you decide?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

When you develop and ship them, you have to keep three factors in mind to get the most organic traffic out of them. Also ensure that you link between new feature pages to make it easy for: Google to understand their relationship; Users to navigate between them; Link equity to pass across the new page template. Accessibility.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2013

Vertically integrated ecommerce. That said, it is social curation and vertically integrated ecommerce which have me most intrigued. Collaborative consumption also has legs, but I suspect the low hanging fruit has been picked and other areas may be await new technology development before they become feasible.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This means that an increase in overall value should normally offset the loss of additional equity paid out. Since the note is convertible, it will become equity in the future and typically does so at a discount due to the increased risk the investor took when giving you the note. Just don’t become the Coolest Cooler , ever.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. Is trying to crack equities trading through deep learning algorithms $100K Winner The $ 100K was won by New Knowledge. Substrate.ai

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I’ve been reading a few articles recently about the power of platforms as business models and how they’ve replaced vertically integrated models in a number of industries. 13bn paid out to app developers. Three numbers from the Apple Event in San Francisco ram home this message: 1 million apps. 60 billion downloads.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product. What does the future of equity crowdfunding look like? What does ownership and equity really mean for them as new investors? Find the experts and our affiliated partners.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Developing new startup ideas cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog. [.] link] Nivi.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just my students) is that Customer Development means getting out of the building and sharing what you are working on. My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. Some have spent millions of dollars developing branding to attract tourists and businesses. 3) Develop personas for your target customers. Develop your brand identity assets.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. Social development or “Campus life” - Parties!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To generate long-term brand equity and trust, and maintain competitive advantage, every brand campaign should be influenced by a strategy that’s built on four principles: 1. We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Purpose is your reason for existing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Develop a personal board of advisors about that topic. “You’ll spend time at the conferences that people go to about that topic, read all the books about that topic, read the magazine articles, the news articles about that topic. Go seek out the experts. Be unafraid in asking anybody for help about whatever it is you’re passionate about.”

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This will depend A LOT on the idea and vertical.).

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This will depend A LOT on the idea and vertical.).

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. Their emotional commitment exceeds their equity stake.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company).

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 5, 2015

We have big challenges ahead sustaining the world’s growing population (on an exponential curve and forecast to grow from today’s 7bn to nearly 10bn by 2050) but technologies under development give us a strong chance of solving them. Back to the good news on food, courtesy of Peter Diamandis.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 21, 2013

One point he makes is that in even established vertical, new companies tend to rise on the back of new distribution channels. We talked about this in the context of founders risk, equity splits, and opportunity cost. It’s a great post – read the entire thing. Would love thoughts on both of these memes!'

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2017

Thanks to Evan Harris, SD Equity Partners ! #4 You are an entrepreneur if you are an expansive thinker, if you aren’t afraid of growth into new territories, new verticals, new markets, and new strategies. Then, taking that something and making it soar. 4 – Power. Image Credit: Emily LaRusch. We did exactly that.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to use customer insights and competitive analysis to develop a powerful Facebook ad strategy for your ecommerce that engages, converts, and drives revenue growth. There are six types of Facebook video ads: Short Videos and GIFs Vertical Videos Stories Video Carousels Video Collections In-stream Videos.

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