Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. Look for acquired teams.

Canada 153

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 153

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”).

Software Review 185

Software Review Startup Florida Technical Review 185

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical. Automate Repetitive Processes & Deploy Simulation Software. During development itself, utilize engineering simulation software to reduce prototyping costs and shorten trial-and-error timelines. Stay Lean and Low.

Cost 100

Cost Developer Small Business Administration Marketing 100

Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Understanding how your website performs on search engines is crucial to brand success. Knowing your search rank on the most popular search engine, claiming 93% of all organic search visits in the US, is extremely important. Host virtual events.

Marketing 171

Marketing Audience eCommerce Social Media 171

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.

Vertical 69

Vertical Marketing Cofounder Campaign 69

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Now users interact with digital products in much more complex and different ways than a decade ago…the more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture. Integrations.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Constructing software to make your vision a reality can be incredibly rewarding but also quite challenging. Here are a few pieces of advice for building well-loved software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that have helped me and my team realize our ambitions. Create accessible technology. Validation, iteration, and innovation.

Agile 131

Agile Vertical Open Source Framework 131

David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

Vertical 110

Vertical Search Business Model Software Developers 110

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

She’s also a professor at the University of Cincinnati in their Engineering department. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Engineer United States Government 102

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. Look for acquired teams.

Canada 67

Canada Acquisition Hiring Vertical 67

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. Jason let them run over their time slot by a long time – the demo was worth seeing and he obviously knew this. I for one will be routing for them, though.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Vertical 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others. And here’s the thing.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

Vertical 128

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 128

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. How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc.

Vertical 122

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 122

The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

Unlike, say, content discovery engines or Taxi booking apps , people tend to be pretty sensitive about their teeth, so overcoming peoples’ innate natural fear that a system won’t work effectively is one of the biggest challenges for Price. Yeah but I just need to know is the appointment booked?’. Yes, everything’s fine.’”. It’s Web-based.”.

Cloud 121

Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. We were going to be guessing.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Satellite imagery is now available and affordable via numerous software and can be easily accessed online. But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Creation of maps for engineering-geological zoning. Here are some of the most interesting examples.

Harvest 155

Harvest Forecast Vertical Stock 155

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. And the more of them your website has, the higher it will rank in search engines, giving you more traffic. For your advertising spend, you’re getting paid benefits and a boost to your search engine marketing campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Take 3DR , who make drone aerial analytics software for the construction site. However, there continues to be trepidation to such change in the majority of the industry, and the reality differs across verticals and regions. Startups armed with powerful tech are changing what is possible in and around the modern construction site.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.)

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. Impact First, Business Models Second.

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. Our staff will improve their expertise through more in-depth research and training. Thanks to Dan Goldstein, Page 1 Solutions, LLC ! #11-

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 119

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee. Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

TSM: Describe Taxfyle’s product or service in 10 words or less: Richard: Taxfyle is a Service-with-a-Software company that matches taxpayers with licensed CPAs and Enrolled Agents. We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e.

CPA 137

CPA Founder Vertical North America 137

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them? Order Here.

Silicon Valley 125

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

It means that maintenance engineers will be required, further increasing the company expenses. All the platforms use the current software versions with up-to-date security measures and enhanced protection capabilities. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities.

Vertical 120

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 BPM vendor (every software vendor!) release of the product.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. When I started Shapeways, complex software needed to be built and when I first reached out to developers, a lot of them laughed and told me it was impossible. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Never take no for an answer. Don’t listen.

Cofounder 164

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. As the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution grows, we see two categories of platform companies driving it: marketplaces and cloud-based small business software. Enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley Non-Compete API Vertical 195

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. BuiltWith lets you take a peek under the hood of your competitors’ websites and find out exactly what software they use. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. reviews, trust).

SEO 126

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Vertical markets: Expanding from books to other media verticals seemed unrealistic, considering both the music and movie verticals had a rapidly shrinking share of physical goods. Market expansion: AbeBooks specialized in the long tail (used, rare, hard-to-find books).

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