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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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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. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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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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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 Holding founders and engineers feet to the fire will inevitably remove the rough edges from the the product, imporving bounce rates of newcomers and loyalty of established users.

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10 Ways to Adapt Your Marketing Strategy in a Crisis

Up and Running

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. According to a recent study, web browsing is up 70%. Understanding how your website performs on search engines is crucial to brand success. Improve SEO and user experience. Are potential customers able to easily find your brand?

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Segment vs Mparticle

ConversionXL

As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. While suitable for web applications and mobile use cases, the general consensus based on digesting hundreds of reviews is that they are strongest for web applications. The situation is now completely different.

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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

If you are considering developing a vertical SaaS, it is your responsibility to communicate the technology’s robust benefits in a way that’s accessible to your potential customers. 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.

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