Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

percent) to 425 million in 2014 (8.5 This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. In the United States, in 2018, a stunning 10.5 percent of the population had diabetes, 34.2 million Americans.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

The opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is a great opportunity to think about competition, performance, and creativity. Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. Audaciousness.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Vertical Small Business Differentiation 91

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

This study compared the funding networks of nine metro areas in 2014 and examined the effect of the size of the networks on the amount of venture capital in those markets. In 2015, a research study was released looking at the effect of funding networks on the amount of venture capital invested in local metro areas across the United States.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. Matt Cooper: We have focused in on creative as our real sort of core vertical and core area of expertise over the last 12, 18 months, in particular. Is there a typical student profile?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

Emarketer predicts that in 2014, that number will balloon to 4.55 There is no doubt that mobile search will surpass desktop search this year and be the primary vertical marketers and small business owners must focus their time. The adoption quickly exploded and in 2012, global smartphone adoption reached 1 billion users.

Search 71

Search Mobile Marketing United States 71

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. He previously served as RelateIQ’s Head of User Success & Business Operations, which was acquired by Salesforce.com in August 2014 as the first automatic and intelligent CRM solution.

Silicon Valley 100

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). September 2014 – InstaElite rebrands at #paid and launches all-new, self-serve platform at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Milestones: June 2013 – Ronnie becomes famous and we think of the idea for “InstaElite”.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. In 2014, Tesla promised that it wouldn’t sue anyone who violated its patents. Tesla may be a car company today, but Tesla won’t be a car company in 15 years. They may still produce cars, but cars will represent a fraction of total profits.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

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. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Unfortunately, at the time we had a few DTC / vertically integrated commerce companies in our portfolio that didn’t do super-well, so we decided that we didn’t want to add another investment. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016. Sonder (prev.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

– Mobify , February 2014. – Wired , February 2014. This Spring 2014 report by Radware shows that the majority of visitors will abandon a site after waiting 3 seconds for it to load. Crate & Barrel reported a tablet conversion rate of 2.35% but a smartphone conversion rate of only 0.92% “.

Mobile 122

Mobile Conversion eCommerce Design 122

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

I founded the company in 2014 on my own, but was able to recruit key guys over two to three years. One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest Advisory Board 54

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2014, when Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer and became CEO, Microsoft was worth $330B. We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. This world of giants is dominated by one colossus: Microsoft. For example, programmable avatars using a simple text editor.

Global 62

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

— Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) February 6, 2014. Does your vertical dropdown extend way too far beyond the fold? It’s been widely criticized for being confusing and unintuitive. Seriously, I need a tutorial for this? pic.twitter.com/yyMLxcyEfn. Should you have an “up” or “back to the top” button?

Conversion 48

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Trillion dollars in 2014 , and is only expected to grow in coming years, delivering results that use the visitor’s “local language” will become increasingly important. Even though the later examples in this article focus on booking sites, there’s plenty to be learned that can apply to other verticals.

Search 107

Search Design eCommerce Technical Review 107

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 6, 2018

About 80–90% of smartphone use occurs in portrait orientation, which makes width a precious commodity: There’s more vertical space, and vertical scrolling is more intuitive. That gap in time-to-completion is almost certainly greater on mobile devices, which prioritize vertical scrolling. Aspect ratio. Multi-step forms.

Mobile 116

Mobile Conversion Vertical API 116

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Single neurons, he said, are fairly well understood, as are small circuits of neurons.

Artificial Inteligence 84

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Single neurons, he said, are fairly well understood, as are small circuits of neurons.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

” Now that we’re 18 months in to our first Homebrew fund, and 2014 is coming to an end, thought it could be interesting to share three places we used the pencil eraser thus far. “Write your principles in pen but your strategy in pencil.” In some cases we own 10%, in others upper teens, and in some, single digits. (I

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2015

As a result we’re declining the majority of these conversations unless we really understand the market vertical and the founders are familiar to us. In fall 2014 the Q cofounders Dan and Saman were already fending off Series A VCs who wanted to start poking at their data. Just Right: Team Delaying an A to Bet on Themselves.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. billion in 390 deals between 2014 and 2023.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source 109

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

South Africa 70

South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

Now what you’ve got to do as a business is work with that to make it look good, you have to get reviews not just at Google, not just at Yelp, not just even at Facebook but even places that Google’s started to elevate since last fall, like [00:20:40] and foursquare and some of these vertical sites, and your own site.

SEO 31

SEO Technical Review Database Search 31

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

In 2014 they launched their strategy which will see them become completely paperless by 2021. The ramifications of this are enormous in multiple different verticals of the business. St John’s Buildings – aiming to go paperless. www.stjohnsbuildings.com. Johne Buidings.

Green 66

Green Technology Europe Operations 66

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As an informal observation, it’s not uncommon to see different companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. Do you purposefully try to communicate that through typography , images , and design as quickly as possible when a visitor lands on your website?

Conversion 112

Conversion Design Caching eCommerce 112

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

When Infolinks ran a survey in 2014 of which ad units were “seen” the most by users, using eye-tracking , they found that above the fold ads placed on the left hand side performed second best with a 73% visibility (first best being the ads near the top with 80% visibility). In such cases, try placing ads on the left hand side of the content.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Advertising 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

It’s a really interesting development – if ~2012 was about the “party round,” could 2014 be about the Piggy Round? And it hasn’t been a special situation such as the founder as an EIR at said fund, or having been previously backed by that fund at earlier company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

How Content Marketing Can Help Grow Your Business in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1gNMc5E. How Content Marketing Can Help Grow Your Business in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1gNMc5E. Interesting Web Design Trend: Vertical Split Layouts – crowdspring.co/1eEmorS. 10 things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Coach – crowdspring.co/1bkxKuq.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To date, there have been only four major European SaaS exits (all IPOs), including QlikTech in 2010, Wix in 2013, Zendesk in 2014 and Mimecast in 2015. Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US. Vertical solutions are typically a sign of a more mature ecosystem.

Europe 48

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. And I realized that it became really front and center to me as the deep learning revolution was taking off around 2014.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it. And I realized that it became really front and center to me as the deep learning revolution was taking off around 2014.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

In Newark, a Vertical Indoor Farm Helps Anchor an Area’s Revival nytimes.com/glogin?URI=htt…. The birth, death and resurrection of American beer: 1873-2014 qz.com/377458/the-bir…. 5 Tips For Small Businesses During Tax Season forbes.com/sites/drewhend…. Will Google’s Algorithm Update Affect Your Franchise Sales? 1CxySYA.

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