ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

While mobile banking has been just a competitive advantage for commercial banks before, it has become the ultimate survival requirement today. Even though mobile banking apps, web portals, and budget tracking tools might seem to be common to many customers in the modern world, a significant part of them has remained unfamiliar with them. .

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They leverage a blockchain-based mobile voting platform to let everyone’s voices be heard by making it easy to vote and nearly impossible to cheat. Their mission is to have 1 billion people around the world vote through the Votem platform using their mobile device by 2025. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Celo : An open platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost. In addition, our existing startups in this space continue to do well. Lolli : gives customers bitcoin when they shop online (n.b. This helps encourage the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency ). Bio/healthcare.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Node JS is also capable in taking care of dynamic and acute database triggered Mobile and Web Applications. During this timeframe of mobile based applications, organizations need frameworks like node js eCommerce that can assist the quick paced request and dispatch applications way before advertising them. Source: Flickr.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. And I’ve also been convinced that it can be quite useful to have another startup company CEO on your board. As You Start to Mature.

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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. I’m interested in startups that are disrupting insurance with the hope of making healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone. dental, vision, etc.).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. These startups are VERY difficult to start without having one or more key technical members on the founding team.

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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.

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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. Many startups were not the first in their domains. The answer is no.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. In a startup success isn’t about just execution, it’s how well we could take our original hypothesis and learn, discover , iterate and execute. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

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. The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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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. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

On the other hand, check out ProductHunt or a few AI newsletter and you’ll quickly hear about more than 1,000 generative AI startups, with new ones popping up daily. Is it startups or incumbents? As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals. Vince: Digiday Mobile and Digiday Social Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. Tony: So how do you do this and still have dinner at home?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 4, 2015

The success of Uber has inspired hundreds of startups to call themselves the “Uber of X, Y, or Z.” 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. High purchase frequency. True on-demand use case.

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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.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

reinventing for the mobile first workforce will continue to remain robust. While we continue to be excited about opportunities in SaaS startups, it is clear that the game has changed substantially since 2010. pick a vertical, say old archaic tech and SaaS-ify it?—?my This is all great news for startups. Go niche?—?pick

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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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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VC Cafe

AUGUST 8, 2018

Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post I collected the Israeli. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

You’ve decided to undertake a startup, now how exactly are you going to go about that? Allow me to emphasize that native talent and temperament have a lot to do with how you determine your goal, whether it’s golf or creating a startup. They learn how to talk with potential customers and de-risk their plans from the start.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

And judging by the newly announced winner of Tech in Asia ‘s Startup Arena winner Lots of Buttons , it can also grow in pretty quirky ways. Hong Kong-based Lots of Buttons beat out 19 other impressive (mostly Asia-based) startups with a business model that revolves around buttons. E-commerce in Asia is big , and rapidly growing.

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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.

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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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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

But with a group of incredible startups doing great things, we’re determined to provide more frequent updates. 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. In other funding news, Front Desk raised a $3.5

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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. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Fast forward to 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years. Joe Greenstein of Flixster , the leading movies app on all social and mobile platforms, wants to take big risks with small dollars.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Over the past few years, I’ve helped build and market mobile apps that have reached hundreds of millions of people. For example, the first app we launched at my startup, Khush, was LaDiDa. have focused relentlessly on being the best-in-class in their specific vertical. I’ve also built several apps that flopped.

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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. Social usage is almost entirely spent on mobile. . 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.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

Project Kairos, the startup program, will take centre stage. The Startup Magazine is happy to promote the event within London Tech Week. The TechXLR8 event brings together 8 conferences, 300 exhibitors, live demonstrations, and tremendous networking opportunities that are critical to startup success. Project Kairos Startup City.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

As an investor in early stage startups in gaming and metaverse/web3 at Remagine Ventures , I naturally consume a lot of content on this topic, and this post also helps me digest and separate signal from noise. Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. The management of these competences also requires an in-depth understanding of human resource management and GOPA has also specialized in this domain by using state of the art IT infrastructure and mobile apps.

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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. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups.

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