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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? It’s time to build!

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Here are a few of the directories aggregating the emerging tools for creators: On the platform side, in the past, a few large platforms like Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok were the core distribution mechanism for creators. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. 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 1) Industry reports.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30).

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Liquidity Hacking - How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace

A Crowded Space

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? Curate one side.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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