David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . They can also come in search results on search engines like Google, and they can be included as recommended content by discovery platforms. . They’re good for getting attention pretty easily, and they don’t use a lot of text. How Does Banner Advertising Work?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. The same is true in your company.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

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. Although the rendering engines and computer vision are rather mature, we’re still years away in terms of packaging all of this in a sleek glasses-like form factor.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

All the building blocks of effective search engine optimization (SEO). There is no mystery about how search engines work. The user types in specific questions or requests and the algorithm matches them with the most relevant results possible. Now, identifying these keywords doesn’t have to be a complicated or expensive process.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

When the problem space is complex you arrive at solutions fastest through a mix of software and people engineering. Algorithms alone don’t cut it. Palantir has been able to repeatedly pair it’s core analytics platform with human investigators who unlock business value across a variety of vertical domains.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Frequent algorithm changes in Google’s Organic search results (and indeed, the actual layout of the search results pages themselves) enforce a world where useful, engaging and purposeful content is quite welcome, and search engine spam is not. SEO is such an exciting, fast moving discipline to keep track of.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. One of their engineers have now taken that and used AI to model that for other companies. There are challenges on both sides. Substrate.ai

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

Over the years I have looked at recommendation engines, wearable technology (in this case, fabric that detected heart activity), biosensors, home monitoring, video analysis and natural language processing algorithms.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. Since SimilarWeb has international data, you can run these reports for any country and for extremely specific or broad industries and sub-verticals. You can still learn from both. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles.

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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. Many occupy the Featured Snippet box, with snippets selected algorithmically. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Wistia has been around since 2008.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. What happens when Google’s algorithm cuts organic visibility for your blog in half? For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals. Second, “lead” generation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

Here are the reasons why you should create a “vertical” social network for your brand: Create a more personalized social experience. You’re no longer a slave to the whims of social media’s algorithms, or the rise and fall of “hot” websites or apps that may be “over” by year’s end. Better spot customers’ needs. Who’s Doing It Right.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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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. It uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to analyze over 250 terabytes of data daily.

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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. Stitch Fix’s algorithms match the perfect stylist with each and every customer to help ensure the optimal outcome for each client. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. It works by compiling a list of the best vendors in a specific vertical that share some commonality – location, for example.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. And it turned into Expression Engine. And what I like to say is I don’t know what Mark Zuckerberg is going to do tomorrow with some new terrible tweak on the Facebook algorithm. And then I also had a few I started about 10 blogs for…I was kind of like you.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Channels serve as a more direct means of communication and include email, advertising, search engines, chatbots, phone, and more.” [via via Digital Brand Blueprint ]. Image source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 27, 2013

— a person flaps despondently at Google, inside which ten million tumblers control the landscape of discovery and the fate of the transaction with an algorithm even its inventors could not manually recreate. How do you realize you can move vertically when your compass measures only two dimensions? Fed up with — what?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Theres no complex algorithm to go wrong, just a simple lookup table. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine.

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Hippoland

MARCH 19, 2017

Case in point: In the late 90s, Google was something like the 7th or 8th major search engine to emerge. He’s building a company in a vertical that is pretty crowded. But, people don’t care about what buttons your product has. They care about that end result. Focus your story around that. My mom was a single mom. And I grew up poor.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Humans combine data with algorithms (see here for a list) to train a model using that data. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data. Department of Defense has created a dedicated organization to ensure its deployment. But What Is It?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It is simply magnificent what you can do with freely available data on the web about your direct competitors, your industry segment and indeed how people behave on search engines and other websites. They are available from all the major search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo! 4: Search Engine Data.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

It was an interview question, posed by then senior Google engineer Christophe Bisciglia (later founder of red-hot cloud software company, Cloudera and more recently WibiData ) to job applicants. The young company was recently in the news for the release of their latest underwriting algorithm.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Six months ago I published a post on VC Cafe titled, the state of creative automation , diving into vertical applications of AI on content creation of all sorts; from text (GPT-3 and the likes) to Synthetic video (powered by companies like HourOne). There’s also of course Metahuman by Unreal Engine/Epic.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A huge vast majority of clicks coming from search engines continue to be organic clicks (which is why I love and adore search engine optimization). Any web analytics on your site will tell you how many clicks came to you from a search engine. helps me refine my search engine optimization (SEO) strategy 2. You may not.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Among her many distinctions, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s unusual for someone who is as deep in computer science and engineering and technical excellence as you are. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret. There’s no doubt about it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Among her many distinctions, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s unusual for someone who is as deep in computer science and engineering and technical excellence as you are. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret. There’s no doubt about it.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s like arguing against vertical software. How about ABAPer?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The wrnchAI engine is a real-time AI platform to digitize human motion and behavior from standard video. We want to make the wrnchAI engine the de facto standard for visual human machine interaction. We have been working on the engine for two years with key partners and will be officially launching it at NVIDIA GTC in March.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. she will look at all her observations of other supermarkets on Earth, on other planets, and do her best to give your the best normalized, indexed, algorithm'ed number.

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