ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This could be by using a mobile app, interactive website, or some other digital platform. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At a time when young companies struggle to find technology sectors not dominated by Silicon Valley’s giants , most startups remain oblivious to one of the largest markets in the world, the U.S. There’s a willing market here, too. A startup could land a contract worth up to $3 million within months of entering the defense market.

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Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 326

ReadWriteStart

JULY 4, 2023

This ground-breaking achievement not only marks a key milestone in the development of flying cars, but it also prepares the way for a new era in the history of mobility. Because of these features, it has the potential to revolutionize urban mobility and provide a faster and more efficient commute for individuals as well as enterprises.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Mobile Vertical California 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Band-aiding a mobile experience is no longer a possible solution, as 70% of mobile searches lead to action on a website within 1 hour of searching. The Mobile Gap & The Problems It Causes. This number increased by 27.1%

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

deal architect

JUNE 30, 2022

I have spent a lifetime watching new market segments emerge, mature, get disrupted, morph and consolidate. The energy sector is going through a massive disruption and renewal. If I were building a 'magic quadrant" I would factor wind, solar, tidal,

Mobile 370

Mobile Marketing Green Vertical 370

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

We all know that marketing is essential for a small business, especially as you’re just starting 8out. Marketing your small business doesn’t have to be intimidating. Marketing your small business doesn’t have to be intimidating. Here’s a few ways to make sure your small business is on the right track for marketing success: 1.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media SEO 173

VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

You may have noticed that the fundraising market for startups has slowed down. Whether it’s text, images, audio, video or even music, new tools are democratising creativity, enabling new opportunities for startups. Are you building in this space? Not for us. Drop us a line or slide into our DMs – we’re all ears!

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Startup Vertical 141

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. Different innovation waves overlap and compound one another (cloud + mobile for example). Replacement is a great strategy.

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Vertical Cloud Software Technology 194

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

The post Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan appeared first on Where to Play. Here is the case of a local catering business from Pakistan, applying the Market Opportunity Navigator to find new market opportunities in light of a changing environment. Step 1: Market Opportunity Set.

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Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier was released on December 20. click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page). The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm.

Mobile 195

Mobile Video Conversion Partner 195

deal architect

JANUARY 18, 2016

It is a rapidly changing industry with omni-channel options, mobile pays and. I woke up this morning to press releases from NetSuite and Infor from the annual National Retail Federation show in New York, announcing new retail customers and investments.

Vertical 150

Vertical New York Channel Mobile 150

deal architect

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As part of the launch of the Business as Unusual book (click on badge on left to get to the Amazon page) by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier that we helped conduct interviews and research for, we will share excerpts.

Mobile 195

Mobile Vertical Marketing 195

Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2011

Mobile platform provider Unwired Nation today announced the addition of ethosIQ to its roster of certified mobile solutions providers. Mobile platform provider Unwired Nation today announced the addition of ethosIQ to its roster of certified mobile solutions providers.

Houston 67

Houston Vertical Mobile Marketing 67

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Lots of ICOs and capital poured into the frenzy of this market in 2017. Celo : An open platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost. After the 2017 price run up, reality set in during 2018; both BTC and ETH value plummeted. Some say that we are in “crypto winter.” Bio/healthcare.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review North America Seattle Deal Flow 124

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 15, 2014

I took this chart from Criteo’s recently published Mobile Commerce Report. It’s amazing to see how fast mobile is taking share from desktop and great to see the UK leading other western markets, as we do in just about all areas of ecommerce.

eCommerce 134

eCommerce Mobile Vertical Marketing 134

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This rapid contraction will leave the space run by just a couple of “big guys,” some finely positioned vertical players and a long tail of “local guys,” finding ways to thrive by serving a few small regions or cities. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. Social media gets marketing dollars in 2012. 2012, the year of Creativity.

Cloud 213

Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now it looks like mobile is eating the web. Back in 2010, Mary Meeker and Morgan Stanley predicted that within the next five years, “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” The shift from desktop to mobile, whether smartphone or tablet, is happening across a variety of activities.

Mobile 161

Mobile Web SEO Distribution 161

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I’m curious about a Millennial and Gen Z version of Patients Like Me that is mobile-first and built for generations that already share everything on social media. 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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Social Network Vertical Cofounder Software Improvement 102

Version One Ventures

MARCH 26, 2013

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Google recently released the results of a new study on mobile search and conversions. Along with Nielsen , Google analyzed over 6,000 mobile searches and the actions that came after the search. Survey respondents said they chose mobile over desktop search for convenience and speed.

Mobile 145

Mobile Vertical Search Conversion 145

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' The future of the Internet is video.

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Video Los Angeles Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 320

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. With marketing and analytics becoming increasingly complex, businesses need to know how to track and manage their data, and they need to know what to do with it. The situation is now completely different.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Future of Mobile Search Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Justin Emig – Enjoy! Search on Mobile Devices. The Future of Mobile Search.

Search 71

Search Mobile Marketing United States 71

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6. NameYourRentNow.com.

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

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. Vince: Digiday Mobile and Digiday Social Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? Example here: [link]. The client has to win.I have to be excited.

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Los Angeles Revenue Southern California Social Network 225

Version One Ventures

MAY 4, 2015

Uber is part of a broad category of on-demand mobile services. While these ingredients certainly aren’t unique to hiring a ride, they do not cut across all industries and verticals. Consequently, finding an untapped market and saying you’re going to build the “Uber for X” is hardly a surefire route to success. Final thoughts.

Vertical 60

Vertical Demand Mobile Valuation 60

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? User privacy.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. That starts with platform thinking.

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Japan Global Asia API 100

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. If Generative AI is truly a platform shift like the early days of mobile and cloud, think about the first generation of apps or cloud services.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. The only difference is, this time, there is no bubble waiting to burst.

Mobile 151

Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. Lead-ins with content in HTML or structured data for Google only.

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SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

She previously served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Smule , where she remains an advisor to the Board of Directors. Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. But the truth is that many of the best products are created by marketing geniuses. Prerna Gupta is an author and futurist.

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Product Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley Vertical 147

BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

reinventing for the mobile first workforce will continue to remain robust. Cost of getting message to market has increased due to the noise from the many competitors in a particular space. pick a vertical, say old archaic tech and SaaS-ify it?—?my at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, Go niche?—?pick

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Open Source 60

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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Founder Vertical Differentiation Portfolio 213

The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

We’ve been doing a good deal of thinking about the future of ecommerce as the world goes mobile. On the web these retailers found their customers via search, but that doesn’t work as well on mobile. So how will discovery work on mobile? They will be primarily web based (including mobile web) and may not need an app.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Mobile Aggregator Vertical 60

Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch).

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Vertical Cloud Mobile Partner 153