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Analyst Cam: IFS Verticals - Construction and Engineering

deal architect

This time it is Chris Knight, Global Industry Director for Construction and Engineering presenting on trends. As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. Technical Support – a “debugging copilot” for the engineers currently working in technical support.

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Burning Platform 110:  Market Engineering, not just Product Engineering

deal architect

For the 110th episode of Burning Platform we host Bruce Cleveland of ForzaGroup Consulting. You may remember Bruce from his influential roles at Siebel, C3.ai ai and Oracle and as an investor at Wildcat Venture Partners. You know I am constantly.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. Context here.) I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

Of course, they don’t have the engineering team to build the technology on their own – and this means that the number of enterprise software customers keeps growing. Vertical SaaS. We have been long-term investors in vertical SaaS companies like Jobber (home services), Clio (legal) and Zenput (C-stores and restaurants).

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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. Expertise in a specific industry vertical or process? Build a solid value proposition.

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