Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. We’re proud to say that we wrote a blog post every week in 2018 – and we’ve done that now for the past three years. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Distribution Artificial Inteligence 144

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

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 122

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. Source: AngelList.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the web. It is flexible for blog writing. WordPress on its own can easily handle simple blogging sites with low traffic. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Why Scaling Is Important. At OpsWorks Co.,

Vertical 119

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 119

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 7, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss various options for different warehouses. Distribution Warehouse. If you’re in the business of shipping and distributing products, you’ll need to set up a warehouse. Here are some tips for setting up your distribution warehouse.

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Mezzanine Vertical Distribution Operations 59

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Today on the Foundry blog we detailed a new theme in which we’ve been investing for a while, but which only really came together as a coherent thematic concept in the past year or so. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans. And it is, it becomes a micro blog.

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Marketing Social Media Video Technical Review 96

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Demand generation marketers create and distribute strategic content (mostly for free) to build awareness and demand for their brand or product. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences. Take sales CRM Pipedrive.

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Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In the A16Z blog , Li Jin, one of the most prominent writers on the creator economy, said that creators can make a living with only 100 true fans, by segmenting their audience and offering tailored products and services at varying price points. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less. ” Eric Feng.

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. Murray Newlands is founder of chatbot builder Chattypeople.com and Sighted an online invoicing company and you can follow his personal blog at www.murraynewlands.com. Where are you located?

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Cofounder 40

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Today on the Foundry blog we detailed a new theme in which we’ve been investing for a while, but which only really came together as a coherent thematic concept in the past year or so. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

Distribution 48

Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

On this blog, you’ve seen numerous attempts by me to remedy the dilemma. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements. Is the distribution optimal? What do you see?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. For example, you may need to reassess the vertical distribution of your sales team to focus on industries with higher returns.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.] Reply Canada compared to others Part 2 « The RIC Blog , on November 3, 2009 at 2:33 am Said: [.]

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. It doesn’t. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee Muhl, Managing Director, Growthink's New Media and Entertainment Practice Lee Muhl heads Growthink's entertainment-media vertical, encompassing the making and distribution of films, television programming, games, new media content and numerous related distribution platforms, technologies and methodologies including theatrical exhibition, DVD, PPV-VOD, (..)

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Nailing an article in a major tech blog is a hit or miss, but I’ve successfully managed to get two of our product launches featured in Techcrunch and TheNextWeb. Don’t underestimate small blogs! Blog or content marketing (cheap or free). Getting published is a combination of luck, creativity, and most importantly, relationships.

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Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. An industry report or “ultimate” guide offers more to the target audience than a general “top tips” blog post.

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. So why is this important?

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Silicon Valley Investment Bankers Affiliate Vertical 233

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 24, 2018

As we wrote in our Digital Healthcare blog series , “ Even more complex than the enterprise, the healthcare market is muddled by byzantine incumbency, legacy, and regulation. We have realized that in most cases, bottoms-up distribution or the “consumerization” of software in healthcare has its limits. That is, we.

Vertical 97

Vertical Networking Distribution Cost 97

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

We think it’s inevitable that this vertical will undergo the same digital transformation as every other major commerce category and we’ve made two investments behind this thesis ( Paintzen and Renoviso ) and will be expecting to do more around the construction and renovation space in the years to come. Source: Google Finance).

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Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Blog at WordPress.com.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Blog at WordPress.com. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk.

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Voice-powered products and services will exist and succeed or fail via as yet unknown but fundamentally different looking distribution and discovery mechanisms. Because voice activation may require users to know both what they want and who provides it, today’s leading brands in any given vertical will have a huge advantage.

Vertical 120

Vertical Differentiation Internet SEO 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. Reply Donna White , on June 6, 2009 at 1:40 am Said: I found this post through a comment on Fred Wilson’s blog. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one. Put faith in facts!

Silicon Valley 212

Silicon Valley RSS Vertical California 212

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. And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Blog at WordPress.com. Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about. These two posts were amazing.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 128

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lows, common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. It was about content that was strategic and it wasn't just blog posts.

Marketing 83

Marketing Framework Vertical SEO 83

Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Retailers are cutting their lunch through some classic backwards vertical integration – that is, making the products their suppliers make. The missing link in their marketing mix – distribution control. What they should do is simple. Develop a consortium of supermarket suppliers and buy a supermarket chain.

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Marketing Vertical Distribution Global 78

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Enterprises that have gotten past this reflexive response are struggling with how to integrate all of this new, distributed stuff with their existing stuff. Think of it as a compute supply chain, with the CIO managing the vertical integration of this chain. And it’s this chaotic struggle that holds back innovation and growth.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I’ve blogged about it before, and in a way, I think it’s just the result of everyone chasing the tail of innovators and piling in one after another. On #1, these are verticals that haven’t been touched by the Internet as directly because of some combination of: - high cost of sales vs revenue. - government regulation.

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Vertical Distribution Internet Government 57

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lowest common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. It was about content that was strategic and it wasn't just blog posts.

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Framework Vertical Hosting Networking 80

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88