VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2011

LumaPartners , a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Dubbed LUMAscapes, each infographic provides a breakdown of the players in the vertical, by category. Social Lumascape.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Most companies would agree that they would prefer to focus marketing efforts on acquiring investors who have explicitly expressed an interest in being involved in crowdfunding and in specific verticals, both as a user on a platform matching them with opportunities, and directly with issuers. Find the experts and our affiliated partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

I would be very curious to hear the (hypothetical) suggestions you would have given to twitter’s founders, for example. They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#. Startups are – and will remain – an art, not a science.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

For example, it was how Loom’s co-founder and CEO, Joe Thomas, responded to me when I asked for information about the platform: The platform uses Loom’s desktop app. Display the video in 16:9 format for desktop viewers, then automatically resize to square or vertical for mobile viewers. Still, it fills some video marketing needs.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. So how do you invest behind that?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. Consider this blog post (we’ll walk it back to email in a second). How are you reading it right now? A brief summary of the last few years is available here.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As Graham, now Founder and CEO, says, “we are the next-gen hardware and software platform for the $550B global beauty industry.” There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. Every founder will tell you there’s an infinite number of trials and tribulations.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Every founder I meet whos building a marketplace business basically says the same thing: Its so much harder than I thought to build a two-sided marketplace. Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Whether you’re a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you’ve probably had the need to quickly understand an industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) And founders don’t apply for jobs. Google is looking to hire workers. They found companies.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. 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.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Company : Wesabe.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

By shifting the focus away from basic educational content and toward high-level inspirational concepts, Zuora inspired the elite and discerning audience it intended to sell to—CEOs, founders, and executives. Zuora’s founder Tien Tzuo is now regarded as a visionary, a man who predicted the shift to subscriptions before anyone else.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers. Founders and startups use SaaS (i.e. It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

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