VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

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 There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports.

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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.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) Andres Moran.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

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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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. I don’t know.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

On the web these retailers found their customers via search, but that doesn’t work as well on mobile. Firstly some apps will aggregate goods from lots of retailers and discovery will happen in app. That creates space for startups to build discovery experiences focused on specific verticals.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., and Organic Search Traffic (can't ever have enough of that!)… Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

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? See: Github , OpenTable.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

Every day my Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of discussions about music, fashion, electronics, travel and other highly valuable verticals. Here are some ideas: Aggregating all the similar product names into a “comparison” unit with pricing and availability from top merchants. ” What a crock.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Cuponomia: marketplace to search, discover, and share deals and online coupon codes. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Cubie: a free messenger for creative users to chat and draw. Everbill: invoice and estimate service.

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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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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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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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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines. Today, Amazon owns the top of the funnel — customer discovery and search.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. Viewers can search captions and jump to a specific point in the video by clicking the text. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms.

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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% Facebook is another example.

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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. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. Company : Wesabe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This is somewhat of a new one in that we decided we wanted to look at the local landscape from a marketing perspective and get points of view on how the local landscape is changing from both search and then more broadly marketing as well. John Jantsch: Who did you survey then? John Jantsch: Let me clarify something. The lines are blurred.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Were they vertically integrated ? How much power does Google have due to search? Free form, then aggregation, then organization, then structure, then words, then metaphors, then narrative, then publish. Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. If so, why?

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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. I have been using Vertical Response for a few years now, I pre-pay for credits in bulk and get a super low price per email, solid 25% lower than MailChimp that I keep hearing a lot of people mention.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011? What is your "share of search" in the netbook segment compared to your biggest competitor? Go beyond targeting men between the age of 28 and 34, use search behavior and be really smart. 4: Search Engine Data.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They’d upload a list of product terms and related topics— moisture resistant flooring adhesive, subfloor moisture proofing —and their keyword research tool would spit back hundreds of “0 searches per month” results. New, when products are so cutting-edge that few people know they exist, let alone that they should search for them.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Search/Keyword Competitive Performance. The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. On that note… If you search through the 300 posts I've written thus far (this one is 301!), Tools used in this post.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. What got you interested and how have you been studying the system? Bill Gurley : Great.

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