Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

The first cross platform audience wars will start with interoperability being at the center. The best game will get the biggest audience, and all the time/energy/attention of getting “stuff” in a game can be transferred over. Nobody will know they are using crypto under the hood, or care. 10/ Community is a moat.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Software Review Vertical IPO 79

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! See Votum pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in.

Audience 89

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 89

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Brian Yongwook Chae , CEO of Looxid Labs, will pitch at SXSW in the category of Augmented & Virtual Reality (3:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 14) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link.

South Korea 89

South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing. 1: Failed it.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet ChatGPT Technical Review Software Review 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Last October, Colacurcio won season two of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch (literally given in the 32-second elevator ride of Seattle’s Smith Tower); her pitch also won the Geek’s Choice award after live voting by the audience in the Summit app. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing. 1: Failed it.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet ChatGPT Technical Review Software Review 60

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. See the Milis Bio pitch in the category of Health, Wearables & Wellbeing Technology , 5 to 6 pm Sunday, March 15, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2019

Elevating startup growth is definitely in the cards for most founders, and there are a number of ways to accomplish this goal. Brands are psychology and science brought together as a promise mark as opposed to a trademark,” startup founder Scott Goodson explained in a Forbes article. Products have life cycles. Brands outlive products.

Balance Sheet 113

Balance Sheet Social Media Vertical Startup 113

NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

This is why video is the only medium that can so closely mimic true human communication, it allows for a personal connection with the audience that is hard to replicate through text or images alone. RedMint Media founder and video strategist, Geoff Che n. We define it as 15-30 second vertical videos designed for social media.

Video 87

Video Marketing Vertical Social Media 87

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 123

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company. Nearly all of them were first-time founders when I wrote them their first check and I led most of the deals I was in. No new investments.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Richard Baxter is the CEO and founder of SEOgadget , a creative agency specialising in Technical SEO, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Content Creation and Link Building in competitive industries. If you’re a developer, Twitter’s Firehose is a rich and valuable source of data for an analysis of your hyper targeted audience.

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SEO Audience Chad API 136

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. Small businesses move to the cloud.

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Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. And, as we brainstormed with today's audience, they suggested other excellent use cases, including one for product managers to discuss feature-function priorities with customers and prospects. We thought it was very cool! I thought that was brilliant. PTA Portals.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

It claims to be the world’s first commercially approved geo-fenced (limited by a virtual perimeter) and day-parted (day-parting refers to splitting the day into parts to show content most appropriate for each time, and therefore audience) digital advertising service on LED screens mounted on the rooftops on London black taxis.

Internet 120

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Technology Louisville Los Angeles 115

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. He is also the author of several books, including his latest, The Customer Journey: How An Owned Audience Can Transform Your Business. Marketing Podcast with Arnie Kuenn. Podcast Transcript.

Customer 71

Customer Vertical Audience Internet 71

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Their podcast features interviews with industry experts (leveraging their guests’ audiences). When it comes time to involve lead generation and capture that interest, Omnisend appeals to an audience who already know and respect their brand.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I like knowing why a founder is building his or her business. I get excited when I can understand and align myself with the founder’s motivations, values, and overarching views or perspectives of the world. Note: I’m using the word ”market” or ”vertical” which applies to companies that can expand this way (i.e.

Vertical 167

Vertical Distribution Business Model Framework 167

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I like knowing why a founder is building his or her business. I get excited when I can understand and align myself with the founder’s motivations, values, and overarching views or perspectives of the world. Note: I’m using the word ”market” or ”vertical” which applies to companies that can expand this way (i.e.

Vertical 153

Vertical Distribution Business Model Framework 153

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. Thanks to Intercom’s powerful tracking and automatic emails, we know when a startup founder finished and shared a deck. 1x hacker in charge of product/development. in other countries).

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas.

Wichita 62

Wichita Kansas Kansas City Cofounder 62

Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

Software Review 54

Software Review RSS Startup Vertical 54

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

André Vieira , founder of Looptimize, finds CRO extremely useful for ideation: André Vieira: You can look at many elements on competitors’ pages, such as copy, number and placement of images, page structure, page length, the next step in the funnel, amount of calls to action, types of calls to action, etc., reviews, trust).

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

See the Skilllab pitch in the catergory of Social & Culture Technology (11 am to noon Saturday, March 14), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019. Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Vertical Austin Conversion 78

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The advice, connections, and customers they seek are in all sorts of different verticals, and so it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to build out a conference where paying hundreds of dollars and spending a day makes sense to someone if only 10% of the content and audience is relevant.

New York City 97

New York City New York Vertical Curation 97

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And with an audience of hungry buyers circling, supply is much easier fill. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. If a web service provides content which helps a person or organization learn more about what and how to buy, then it becomes a trusted source for later in the buying process.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

Denver 48

Denver Startup Austin Vertical 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. If you weren’t working for FilmChain, what would you be doing? film and tech?—?and

Cofounder 88

Cofounder Vertical Austin Revenue 88

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. Representing Denmark’s first SXSW Pitch finalist, co-founder and COO Stine Mølgaard Sørensen will pitch Radiobotics in the category Health, Wearables & Wellbeing Technology , (5 to 6 pm Sunday, March 15) before a panel of expert judges and a live audience.

Denmark 62

Denmark Cofounder Vertical Europe 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Intvo’s AI technology spotlights pedestrians to make for safer streets The Forrest Four-Cast: January 27, 2020 Meet Intvo , a startup with the target audience of everyone on the road. Assam Alzookery , Intvo founder and CEO, explains, “Our product solves the lack of communication between drivers and pedestrians. I don’t get tired.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence Michigan New York City Vertical 62

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back.

Technology 139

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 139