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. As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4 As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

In February, Talentbuddy was acquired by Udemy , an online learning and teaching marketplace headquartered in San Francisco. We welcomed two new companies to our portfolio in Q1; both will be announced at a later date but fall into the themes we have been exciting about: AI/ML/bots and vertical social networks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

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. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. Reply Scott Rafer , on June 21, 2009 at 6:13 pm Said: A book called Imperial San Francisco (amzn link [link] ) provides a bit of history about the Stanford and Hearst families’ funding of Stanford U and UC Berkeley.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. With Angela’s promotion to General Partner , we now have investment partners located in both the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. The bill had come due.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

A NEW GENERATION OF APPS AND THE APIs THAT POWER THEM I was lucky to be able to attend our Accel APX conference in San Francisco last week.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I’ve been reading a few articles recently about the power of platforms as business models and how they’ve replaced vertically integrated models in a number of industries. Three numbers from the Apple Event in San Francisco ram home this message: 1 million apps. 60 billion downloads. 13bn paid out to app developers.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. Data analysis for large verticals. In other news, Shippo announced new partnerships with both Stripe and UberRUSH. Some themes that we’re currently exploring include: Autonomous vehicles and drones.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Companies like Gartner, Forrester or eMarketer regularly produce reports about tech trends and verticals. 1) Industry reports. 8)Clarity.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. What questions do you have for Lawee? Let us know in the comments. ">.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

for startups that isn’t San Francisco or New York), Cove.tool has buildings in Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as across America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

With offices in San Francisco, Toronto, Taipei, and Tokyo, and a team of security experts dedicated to securing decentralized systems, the company is enabling a future of safer and more reliable blockchain applications and has helped a broad range of enterprises to innovate securely.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In addition, Flugauto was selected as one of the Top Picks at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2016

Vertical rectangles work better for formatting than horizontal or square shapes. Leeyen Rogers is the VP of Marketing at JotForm , a popular online form-building tool based in San Francisco. Add your own content to Pinterest, whether that be from your blog or other marketing materials.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

We had moved our game development facilities from Berkeley and Palo Alto and consolidated into one building on Townsend Street in the “ South of Market &# neighborhood in San Francisco. And it was much, much better than a space suit.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Last week I took advantage of the opportunity to visit with NetSuite during their annual user conference held here in San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop currently splits time between San Francisco and Shanghai. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. We did a lot of brainstorming and research to come up with the name WebKite. W3 EDGE Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. We are able to do that because: 1.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

This increased speed and capacity will require extensive infrastructure investments including “vertical real estate,” like towers and other tall structures; new data centers to process the increased information load; and much more. But other cities seem to be dragging their feet. So why are cities reluctant to embrace 5G?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

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. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps. Oh, one more thing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. He is seeing excellent results.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Here’s a fantastic quote from the great Bill Walsh as one of his most important coaching principles for the San Francisco 49ers. “A You could say this is vertical integration or a move to full-stack or managed marketplaces. You should aggressively strive for constant improvement. Relentlessly pursue productivity gains.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Probably the most notable of my celebrity run-ins occurred a few years ago at a Starbucks in the financial district of San Francisco during Oracle’s Developer conference. Now I am hungry. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter. Sean Parker walked in with his fiancé. I approached them. Said “Hi,” shook his hand, and walked away.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 13, 2016

The joke around San Francisco nowadays is that there is a transfer of wealth going on from VCs to consumers because VCs are funding these negative gross margin businesses like free food, delivery, parking, rides, etc. Rather than pushing a button and requesting an order, they have planned routes a couple times per week.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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