Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I recently received this unsolicited email from Craig Shinney (slightly edited to protect identities) – I just wanted to write to tell you that about one year ago, I started getting into Internet marketing and experimenting with all sorts of different methods of the various types of blogs and tools that all the different marketers recommend.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ve been noodling on this post for a few months now, trying to find the best way to explain why a decentralized Internet is important and how we might get from here to there. It certainly seems that the use case and demand for a decentralized Internet has never been stronger. More inclusive models of stakeholder capitalism.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The future of the Internet is video. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' They read less than 30 minutes. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Distribution costs have, too.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. A true marketplace needs natural pull on both the consumer and supplier side of the market. Friction of Supplier Sign-Up.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This preference isn’t necessarily due to market size, but rather the structure of the market: are there only a few dozen customers that might buy your product or are there thousands, or even tens of thousands of potential customers? Why Internet Companies Don’t Buy From The Enterprise Kings (techcrunch.com).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. Remember that Workday went public at a $7B+ market cap. 90%+ of VC’s will tell you that their focus is either a technology or a space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Boris wrote about the latest opportunities in enterprise SaaS , while Max outlined some of his current investment themes , from the Open Internet to climate change. The impact of patient care management is obviously huge, but there are lots of challenges to overcome, including the go-to-market strategy (i.e. dental, vision, etc.).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

The Open Metaverse is described as the New Internet, but it’s yet to be built yet. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. The creator economy, a topic I’ve covered extensively on VC Cafe, will be a key part of this new Internet.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. But B2B startups need to take a different tack.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Instead of the “entrepreneur that knows what the market wants”, we move to the “entrepreneur that knows how to discover what the market wants”. Time to Market. Reducing time to market and lowering product development cost will extend this runway. OPD teams offer several advantages: No start-up time. Extending the Runway.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Next, look at the current state of your market: Who’s interested in your product or services? This is most likely covering old ground, but it helps to know that your audience and market position remain relevant before investing in something that may fall flat. How many of them are likely to buy? Who are your competitors? Ad blockers.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

#2- Competitive Photo Credit: Denise Hemke Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has become huge that the market has become quite saturated. The market is super competitive and if you don't offer what the consumer needs, you won't stand a chance. Thanks to Matt Bowman, Thrive Internet Marketing Agency ! #9-

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. . Instead, we look for large market opportunities first , and very often those come about because of some technology-enabled shift.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 3 Internet Tools To Market Your Books Better and Faster – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 3 Internet Tools To Market Your Books Better and Faster – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market. I help internet companies make money. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”.

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Where to Play

MARCH 14, 2018

The post Success story: how startup Augury determined its market opportunities appeared first on Where to Play. Augury is bringing predictive maintenance technology to new markets. The technology combines two key shifts in the industry: artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. Using the right business tools.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. At that time, Version One was a generalist firm, investing in consumer Internet, e-commerce, SaaS and mobile companies. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. Technology changes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. I thought that was brilliant.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. If every sector is to be transformed by technology, and if private markets keep growing, it makes today’s conditions understandable. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of people ask me if I know of any TechStars like accelerator programs for people creating non-software / Internet products and services.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. TikTok capitalized on this market gap and captured a vast user base with its innovative trends. Thanks to Paul Krasinski, Epicenter Experience !

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. A competitive landscape (particularly when laid out in a visual way) will identify gaps and opportunities in the market. Are you following, in sync, or ahead of the market? – TIMING.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI leverages deep natural language processing, text analysis, and computational linguistics to gain insight into customer opinion, understanding of consumer sentiment , and measuring the impact of marketing strategies. This technique is helpful for market segmentation, image compression, etc. Examples: Brand24 , MonkeyLearn.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) are all expensive and potentially fatal distractions if done before you have found product/market fit and a repeatable sales model.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. Pretty much, it’ll touch everything: every sector, every industry, every aspect of our lives. So along that dimension, I think it’s a big shift.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Arnie Kuenn. On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Marketing Podcast with Arnie Kuenn. Podcast Transcript.

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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. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

ChatGPT’s answers are based on scraped Internet data (up to 2021), which means it’s not yet ‘connected to the live Internet’ and can’t help in certain use cases. It’s also difficult for startups operating in this space to create real defensibility as most are built on the same core APIs.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

’ You must have been busy marketing your products to customers to buy online using your website. With a good article, you are more than likely to break the internet. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

The aim through Project Kairos as part of Internet of Things World event is to provide startups with their supreme moment – the one which kicks off the transition from IoT newbie to dominant industry player. Startup City is part of Project Kairos and located on the Internet of Things World expo floor. 450+ speakers take the stage.

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