Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. -Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. 406 Ventures.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666. HubSpot and Buffer, although note that both are in the space of social media marketing; it might be harder to get lots of shares and Twitter chatter if the vertical is manufacturing).

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. 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.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. 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.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. 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.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. We are deluged by data and information and this “big data” is only going to proliferate.

Venture Capital 88

Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. 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.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

We offered that the team might want to expand their user research to think about new features and verticals (document management, law firms, lab managers with discretionary budget, etc.). Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. Agora Cloud Services.

Customer 247

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? So were do we go from here? Is Government a good idea?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

If you have a difficult question or problem that requires deep vertical knowledge, you can post it as a brainstorm on the site, along with a reward ranging from $1000 to $5000. It’s also financially rewarding, with up to $2000 in rewards for a great idea. It’s online and ad hoc, so they can fit it in when they have time.

Elevator Pitch 63

Elevator Pitch Curation Vertical Bootstrapping 63

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. In contrast, in 2000 Handspring entered an Existing Market. (“ Disruptive ” and “sustaining” innovations, eloquently described by Clayton Christensen , are another way to describe new and existing Market Types.) End result?

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

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. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. “The based teachers.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Certainly Carly Fiorina’s tenure will be a controversial topic for some time to come, but the cultural angst generated by the loss of thier founders notwithstanding, HP seemed to really reach stall speed around 2000. It would be nice to hear your thoughts.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app? I will use whatever software is best for the job, but your article seems was wrote in 2000. . #23 Sean Harlow on 08.11.09 at 2:08 pm Two things bug me about this post. most are absolute crap).

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in. And that's a great point you just made too inadvertently, which was, you know, it's really popular right now. And you see it as well as I do, we've crossed paths already in the marketing circles.

Audience 88

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Stunning Graphic Design Styles: 1950 to 2000 Inspired Designs – [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link]. Top 50+ Infographic Tools for Creating Attractive Visuals – [link]. Designers: 9 Mistakes To Avoid For Successful Pitches! – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

A good rule of thumb is 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen, and also per device (i.e. In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking : Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking.

Algorithm 48

Algorithm Analytics Aggregator Vertical 48

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this shift. For example, programmable avatars using a simple text editor.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

That’s a big mistake, and one that is reminiscent of companies refusing to get online 20 years ago or the companies that refuse to accept that social media is a reality for many verticals. Not only that but mobile traffic is now 18 times the size of the entire internet traffic from 2000.

Mobile 122

Mobile Conversion eCommerce Design 122

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. It’s proven to work across industries and business models. B2B and B2C. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. As doctors are embracing new technologies, we think this is only the beginning of the digital transformation of medical practices and hospitals, and we expect a lot more innovation in this vertical in the coming years.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

Founded in 2000, already with the ethos of community involvement and responsibility, it all began as a result of one of their volunteers having a PhD in solid oxide fuel cells from Cambridge (as you do). The ramifications of this are enormous in multiple different verticals of the business.

Green 65

Green Technology Europe Operations 65

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

Let’s compare the difference between a 50% retention rate and a 75% retention rate: At a 50% retention rate: LTV = 1/(1-0.5) * $1 * 1000 = $2000 At a 75% retention rate: LTV = 1/(1-0.75) * $1 * 1000 = $4000 This means that in this case, by increasing your retention rate by half (relatively speaking), you actually DOUBLE your revenue.

CPA 51

CPA Retention Viral Acquisition 51

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley API Cofounder Salary 208

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. DELL MAKES FIRST ACQUISTION IN ISRAEL: BUYS ISRAELI DATA STORAGE COMPANY EXANET. DVTel, Inc.,

IP 68

IP Analytics Portfolio 68

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. Right now, we are working a “Magic Mirror” demo for the show that allow people to walk up to a huge, 100-foot vertically placed TV and see themselves beamed into cyberspace. It boils down to our culture.

Startup 70

Startup Artificial Inteligence Canada Engineer 70

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020 : Cooperation between The Nest – ???? ?????? ?????? & Apply here.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Founders receive all the accolades and attention, but it’s employees number 2 through 2000 that turn a great idea into a great business. For Julisa, she was excited about SaaS, mobile’s disruptive force on vertical industries, and hospitality was of particular interest to her. The problem is, startups can be hard to figure out.

Startup 20

Startup Boston Vertical Community 20

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Founders receive all the accolades and attention, but it’s employees number 2 through 2000 that turn a great idea into a great business. For Julisa, she was excited about SaaS, mobile’s disruptive force on vertical industries, and hospitality was of particular interest to her. The problem is, startups can be hard to figure out.

Startup 20

Startup Boston Vertical Community 20