The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global lockdowns, telehealth has been rewriting all the rules on the way healthcare has historically been conducted. As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation.

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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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Startup landscapes, while not perfect, are useful as they provide a way for us to define a space/category and the players of that vertical. Is it only one exciting vertical within the broader umbrella.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Qualtrics could help SAP expand into CRM offerings. Qualtrics focuses on experience data, SAP focuses on operational data.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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. legal), as well as directly to consumers in their every-day lives. Professional services – accounting, white-shoe law, and more – just aren’t playing at that level yet.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

The venture capital community reacted to the racial reckoning the country experienced in June in ways I felt were pretty underwhelming—one-time pitch events for Black founders or promises to only meet with Black founders for a month. We’ll follow with events on Fintech, Climate, AI, and other sectors of innovator interest.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s easy to find bad news about venture capital these days. In other words, the venture capital bust has only just started. 2023 was a rough year for Venture Capital and for startups, and it might get even worse. Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Acceptance that leading VC franchises needed to be multi-stage and global. To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. The AUM of many VC funds has increased dramatically. Depending on where you sit, it makes sense or is a recipe for disaster.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Entrepreneurship Mobile Startups Technology Venture Capital interpretative intelligence Social Entrepreneurship technology'

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The Wall Street of tomorrow is going to be a very different place than the one that investors and venture capitalists have known for the past 30 years. How will the continuing fundamental changes in the capital markets impact the model for venture capital investing in America and internationally?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Venture Capital. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Explore Venture Capital. Is Government a good idea? Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Which, of course, is the same dynamic underlying global platforms and marketplaces like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Airbnb. We have vertical liftoff!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T of market capitalization. The Index added another $0.9T

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This means that more and more entrepreneurs are designing solutions to global problems, creating innovative products and services that meet real needs, and driving social change. With the global pool of talent open to them, entrepreneurs can build super-efficient teams. Thanks to Sharon Tahar, Papaya Global ! #12-

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

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deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2024

For the 112th episode of Burning Platform we have Ton Dobbe of Value Inspiration. Ton and I regularly participate in our respective podcasts and video series. He is in constant touch with entrepreneurs in the EU discussing go-to-market, operational metrics.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

F-117 Nighthawk - 1st Stealth Ground Attack Plane These changes in American defense policy spooked the Soviets.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. But on the other hand they have more time.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

We are a global VC, therefore we’re competing — and at the same time partnering! — with The SaaS infrastructure will become increasingly more driven by APIs: developers will use more API driven services like Algolia or Segment to reduce time to market and focus their dev resources on the part of their product which differentiate them.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech. Department of Defense.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. based teachers.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). Given Facebook’s position as the leading global social network with high barriers to entry, there was no need to maximize revenue on day one.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I can imagine there are opportunities here across industries/verticals.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Instead I’ll suggest there are two specific questions that really matter, the answers to which will have the biggest impact on the next 1–5 years of startups and venture capital. Is This a Tech Recession or a General Recession?

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. On top of this, technology is no longer a vertical sector — it is entirely horizontal and spreading outward into global markets and new industries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Thank you, global meltdown! Reply Steve , on June 15, 2009 at 9:29 am Said: Ouch! I think I just felt something pierce my reality distortion field! Better go spend some “quantity time&# with my family. Great post… Reply Anonymous , on June 15, 2009 at 9:58 am Said: This resonates with me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. Tencent market cap on public market is $21 billion, Facebook’s is a theoretical $3-15bn (slide 52). Now they have TV & NFC chips.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.)

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

in SaaS companies globally. Comparing the list to the top 300 leading SaaS companies in the US, some interesting trends emerge: Europe is showing strength in data/ analytics and security, driven by the booming ecosystem in Israel but is less represented in developer/infrastructure and vertical applications. We’ve invested $2.3B

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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