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.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 3, 2012
Similarly at GrabCAD , where CAD engineers collaborate and create in a community, the collective output has been remarkable. So given our experiences with these businesses which very much rhyme with One Jackson, the familiarity lead us to excitement about another company taking this social-enabled model to a different vertical.
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Genuine VC
OCTOBER 3, 2007
There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles. (As
Genuine VC
DECEMBER 23, 2009
And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.
Genuine VC
DECEMBER 23, 2009
And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.
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