Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. AOL and the like. ESPN in sports. CNN/Fox in news. And so forth.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Key Takeaways Corey Quinn underscores the significance of vertical market specialization in transitioning from founder-led sales to scalable growth for agencies. This is John Jantsch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Distribution costs have, too. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. They read less than 30 minutes.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . I’m guessing the next wave will center around creating other sorts of open, permissionless businesses and human organizations, more commonly referred to as DAOs or Distributed Autonomous Organizations. see Yearn Finance’s recent Quarterly Report on Github).

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time. The key global trends that are currently shaping the metaverse, blockchain gaming, and NFT space (Source: Newzoo).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(Source: SNC, IVC, public data and Remagine Ventures’ data ) The Israel generative AI startup landscape (September 2023) At Remagine Ventures , we’ve been interested in tools for content creation, distribution and monesation from day one.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Pixar was at the forefront of 3-D animation and storytelling but had no knowledge of the movie industry or distribution channels. By partnering, Pixar now had expert guidance and financial backing to distribute and sell their masterpieces. Focus on companies outside of your industry or vertical. Makes you more competitive.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thayer of Strategyn have a set of unique and valuable insights: Rather than defining markets as existing, adjacent or new markets – or by verticals, technology, demographics, et al. Others define markets around verticals, e.g. the financial services market or the healthcare market.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2020

Choosing appropriate bed racking for your distribution center is a multifaceted procedure with a few considerable viewpoints to bear in mind. Choosing an inappropriate sort of racking may antagonistically influence your distribution center’s efficiency – or even lead to a costly re-fit inside a short time span.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs. Credit: Eze Vidra, VC Cafe). Side Hustle Stash.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Nobody has figured this out better than AwesomenessTV who not only has built an enormous online media presence but also packages and distributes shows for Nickelodeon.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

And then if you want to be altruistic, be altruistic with what you can afford to distribute.” Use that value to pay for the rest. If you need money to eat and put a roof over your head, do what you need to get money. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2018

Load balancing can be achieved by using a cluster manager which manages network data distribution. This ensures balanced load distribution and faster network response. Use Horizontal & Vertical Scaling. The other option to consider is vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is the ideal answer for pure scalability.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. Unfortunately, at the time we had a few DTC / vertically integrated commerce companies in our portfolio that didn’t do super-well, so we decided that we didn’t want to add another investment. Carta (prev.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. With tens of thousands of new start-ups being created every year, the potential of a company to truly scale and become a large, stand-alone business is more crucial than ever before.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Identify key characteristics that delineate one audience segment from another, then create and distribute appropriate content. the product pages a given customer has been browsing) to segment and distribute content accordingly. Take Burrow , an ecommerce business specializing in home furniture. They use intent signals (e.g.,

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020? Pay equity addresses equal pay for equal work.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds. Betting on the wrong horse.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Seth Rosenberg, Greylock Christoph Janz , co-founder and managing partner of Point Nine Ventures, pointed to t he potential of Generative AI to accelerate the adoption of vertical SaaS. Index Ventures also pointed out the potential of generative AI to disrupt vertical SaaS.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 7, 2022

Distribution Warehouse. If you’re in the business of shipping and distributing products, you’ll need to set up a warehouse. Here are some tips for setting up your distribution warehouse. You may also consider using a mezzanine level to store additional products or use vertical space to save on floor space.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies. Let’s start with Facebook.

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