YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses. For example, if you own a small web design firm, you can partner with a web development firm.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Within a single course structure, It would be impossible to address the myriad technologies available today, across diverse verticals. Educational outlets need to look at what Mark Zuckerberg has done with Facebook and understand that our economy needs this single founder model on a much smaller scale to prosper. Teach Some Curiosity.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. 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.

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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. Andy says we are “in the first decade of a multi-century trend” towards vertically integrated ecommerce.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.)

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. Led by Tal Halozin and Zvika Netter, Innovid raised $7.1

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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

This is currently the life of Lloyd Price, ex- Badoo man and founder of Zesty , a service that will find you a dentist in London at the click of a button. Until just this week, all appointments were going through the website, but Zesty also now has a new Web app that will play happily on most smartphones or tablets. It’s Web-based.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Model Equity Calculator for Founders with Option Pool Expansion – crowdspring.co/1fwUdsA. Food-Based Web Design Tips to Make Visitors Hungry | Design Shack – crowdspring.co/18mk414.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. → Learn More. More on TechCrunch TV.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. Small businesses move to the cloud.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings. Talentbuddy founders, Octav Druta and Andrei Soare, joined on as Udemy employees. In the past, we typically wait until the end of the year to recap what’s happened here at V1.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality? I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. How did you come up with the idea for Toptal?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. 9- A merger of two companies.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

For example, Neeva, a startup that tried to push the boundaries of web search and challenge Google by being the first ‘AI-powered’ search engine, found the hard way that’s one thing building a product and quite another to get users to change their habits and switch search engines.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

Access to Founders Day. 10K AWS Web Credits. **To Terms & Conditions apply for AWS Web Credits. Selected startups pitch on the Startup stage as part of their Startup Pack, judged by a panel of investors & leaders for each vertical. What are the verticals for the pitching competition? What is Founders Day?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts. But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Fake it before you make it.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). Yet, we as a planet are beginning to understand just how much of the web is not true. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Often, the layout is something their web designer came up without doing a thorough analysis or testing. (In Karl Gilis , a web usability consultant, is a big fan of comparative user testing: Karl Gilis: For me, it’s incredibly interesting to see what the users like and dislike about the sites of my client’s competitors.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful. clearly states what they do (“build web apps”), their benefits (“without code”), and who it’s for (“entrepreneurs”).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

For years, investors asked founders “what if Google/Facebook/Amazon copy you?” Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deepmind, is urging we should proceed with caution. Is there room for a Jasper.ai to be valued at $1 billion when ChatGPT offers something relatively similar for free? Is UX enough of a competitive moat?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Main takeaways from “Into the Metaverse” The event opened with a presentation by Hamza Khan , a Partner at McKinsey & Company and author of the “ Value creation in the metaverse ” report shared it will take time for VR to become mainstream and enable “fully immersive 3D worlds” but there’s a ton of innovation happening in web 2.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Whether you’re a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you’ve probably had the need to quickly understand an industry.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Vertical SaaS.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. The board raises a collective eyebrow. innovation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin. The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. Scalable: The goal is not to get one customer but many – and to get those customers so each additional customer adds incremental revenue and profit.

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