YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. Investor sentiment has shifted away from growth stocks with high price/earnings multiples.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Our company’s stock was an inducement, but all of them were in it to help us build a better computer.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to CJ Xia, Boster Biological Technology ! #14-

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

All of this is possible thanks to remote sensing technologies like satellite imagery analysis, drones, and IoT devices that allow for remote monitoring and advanced on-the-fly analysis of any changes on the ground. But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Agriculture.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. Yet somehow they thought that my prior experience in high-end computer graphics might be relevant. Why I was interested was equally obscure.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. US VC versus stocks. A VC fund that is at 2x after ten years doesn’t feel great if the stock market has been in a massive bull market, but it might feel great if the economy overall has stalled or suffered a significant crash.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. US VC versus stocks. A VC fund that is at 2x after ten years doesn’t feel great if the stock market has been in a massive bull market, but it might feel great if the economy overall has stalled or suffered a significant crash.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

It’s an asset-heavy, old-school sector that is just now starting to apply technology to make the delivery of goods more efficient. After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. Working creatively Our company sits at the center of the logistics and freight industry.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 23, 2022

But while the use cases for rapid delivery may be growing, actually mastering the technology and logistics that create great customer experiences in this realm is still extremely difficult. Unlike much of its competition, Gopuff is a first-party vertically-integrated company. Currently it can pack the average order in just 90 seconds.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. US VC versus stocks. A VC fund that is at 2x after ten years doesn’t feel great if the stock market has been in a massive bull market, but it might feel great if the economy overall has stalled or suffered a significant crash.

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Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

After reflecting on it for a day, I began to understand why — even though this topic has been written about many times, “technology” as a sector and industry now has gone from vertical to horizontal, entirely pervasive across industries, across sectors, across geographies and cultures. All of this activity is at-will.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 22, 2013

Back in 2007 I noted that HMV was the most shorted stock on the London stock exchange and many similar businesses have also gone bust in recent years (Game in the US and Zavvi in the UK spring to mind). Ecommerce entrepreneurs in other verticals could look for analagous opportunities.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Less auspiciously Apple bought a Swedish mapping technology company (C3) to form the basis of Apple Maps.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In building ESL Perry made a conscious choice to emulate Hewlett Packard (then considered the “gold standard” of a great technology company.) One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. There were no venture investors.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

3/ The Price Of Incumbency – It seems like at the end of every year I’ve been an investor, various blog posts will prognosticate on whether the following year will truly be the year when incumbents start getting nervous and spend their cash reserves and high-priced stock on a big splashy acquisition.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. And founding teams with limited operational backgrounds in their vertical or domain will create doubt. (An As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1%

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. image source.

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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. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #5- They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. I, I think about it like stocks, right? And, and, and you're gonna have to find something else that, that, that is your sort of growth engine in stock.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

These technological cousins were critical to the development of the modern film industry and were each considered to be great innovations when first introduced. The Zoetrope is a turntable device that creates the illusion of motion through a series of drawings on the inside of the cylinder which are viewed through vertical slits.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Today, we utilize our proprietary technology to facilitate collaborations between marketers and tens of thousands of creators from around the world. paid is a hybrid solution of white-glove, managed service, and proprietary technology. Think; custom stock photography. Tell us about your products and services. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

It’s the decisions that you make that might cost you an order, a sale or a higher stock price. Just remember ethics and values are about what you practice when the going gets tough. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

d , and her plan to focus on generating hypergrowth for startups in the wellness, cannabis, and technology sectors. That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups. Technology and modern life cannot be pulled apart. What’s your biggest piece of free advice to startups?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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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. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES. based teachers.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

Once in an extremely rare while, a new technology will appear, for a short time, as if it has no competition. That happened with television, fax, cell phones, web streaming, and many other disruptive technologies. You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. It’s a good reminder.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing. When we were unable to get traction in that one business, we just about lost it all.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing. When we were unable to get traction in that one business, we just about lost it all.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

It seemed that the outcomes were bigger than we ever anticipated and each vertical could create multiple huge winners because of market size, massive global reach, and so on. Right now there are a lot of public market stocks which look attractive compared to private startups. They’re not tourists, they’re optimizers.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lemonade is for people who want a change from the norm: “Lemonade isn’t simply slapping P2P technology atop existing insurance companies. We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Its name fits with the brand’s lovable intentions.

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