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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

And the timing is right for domestic opportunities, as the population is rapidly connecting to the Internet and increasing its purchasing power. E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth.

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Horizontal Or Vertical Business Models: Which Is Right For You?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I recently received this unsolicited email from Craig Shinney (slightly edited to protect identities) – I just wanted to write to tell you that about one year ago, I started getting into Internet marketing and experimenting with all sorts of different methods of the various types of blogs and tools that all the different marketers recommend.

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Fermi estimation for startup business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

All that is quite difficult, however, and despite the Common Knowledge of the Internet, that’s not usually how a company succeeds. For example, perhaps in this market there are enough affiliate-marketers that they become a way to get there, because they’re a pay-per-performance sales force rather than spray-and-pray advertisement.

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Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ is changing the landscape of the web

The Equity Kicker

Many of you will have seen vertically focused instantiations of this strategy in your search results already, and if you are like me you will think they are pretty cool. That’s great for the searcher, and it’s great for Google, but it isn’t so good for the owners of other internet sites.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). Get used to monitoring Twitter conversations around your vertical and try to engage with as many as you can.

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The Truth About Your Latest Idea: It Likely Sucks! Here’s Why…

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This confidence can come from researching and surveying the market or seeing competitors succeed in our vertical. USD , and cultivated a core of launch affiliates to help me spread the word. My first video offering in the series was an hour long and included fancy PowerPoint illustrations and fun graphics. I priced it at $49.99

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The Truth About Your Latest Idea: It Likely Sucks! Here’s Why…

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This confidence can come from researching and surveying the market or seeing competitors succeed in our vertical. USD , and cultivated a core of launch affiliates to help me spread the word. My first video offering in the series was an hour long and included fancy PowerPoint illustrations and fun graphics. I priced it at $49.99