Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What product/service is generating revenue that has not yet been adopted in Boston? Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I ditched coaching as a product and asked myself, The West Coast are early adopters of innovation in talent management. The answer was outplacement. and many others. Photo Credit: Amanda Kendall.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Some startups which have started in Boston with this strategy are TaskRabbit (personal assistance in particular location), Zintro (experts in particular domain), and Care.com (caregivers in a specific vertical and geography) have utilized this methodology.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Launchpad Angels (Boston). Hub Angels (Boston). Golden Seeds (NY, Boston, CA). CommonAngels (Boston). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. In 2012 seven of the eight groups from California, Boston and New York were above the median of all groups. New Mexico Angels.

Angel Groups 169

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Boston. Tatte, an Israeli-French café with locations around Boston, has maybe the best cheesecake I’ve ever had. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Cofounder 62

Cofounder Portland Boston SMS 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Boston. Tatte, an Israeli-French café with locations around Boston, has maybe the best cheesecake I’ve ever had. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Cofounder 62

Cofounder Portland Boston SMS 62

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd. Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni.

Syndicate 70

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Vertical 70

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Some of the obvious vertical markets have been around cleantech and bio / life sciences but some of the more subtle ones have been around government services and non-profits. If you fit in this mix or know someone or an organization that does, can you leave a comment on this post?

Internet 119

Internet Software Seattle Vertical 119

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. In this study by Michael Martin on Smashing Magazine, he closely analyzes the typographic patterns from 50 top websites ranging from The Boston Globe & Financial Times to A List Apart & UX Booth. Nearly the same percentage as sites using sans in 2009.

Conversion 133

Conversion Georgia Technical Review Design 133

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term.

Portland 151

Portland Silicon Valley Seattle Vertical 151

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Up to this point, we hadn’t expanded into a new city with another program – the TechStars programs in Boston, Seattle, and New York were created from scratch. Last fall when I was in Chicago for the Startup America Partnership regional meeting, I had lunch with Troy and asked him if he’d consider joining forces with us.

Chicago 154

Chicago San Antonio Seattle Portland 154

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. Here is the data for the eight groups in these three areas: (a) Boston (3 groups) – $2.5 Wilmington, NC.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. They operate multiple investment funds focused on industry verticals like Real Estate, Consumer or CPG and on under-represented founders such as Women and People of Color.

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2012

A website link should take viewers to a page that succinctly explains the key concepts: The Main Thing of the business, vertical and horizontal alignment, how alignment will be measured, and frequently asked questions. It’s also important to describe the behaviors that will need changing. A brief introduction to the alignment concept.

Cofounder 170

Cofounder Leadership Metrics Vertical 170

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

According to the Nanigans Facebook Advertising Benchmarks Report , there’s been a 92% year over year CPM increase for the ECommerce vertical. The Museum of Science in Boston ran Facebook campaigns to promote their museum memberships. The Museum of Science, Boston Facebook Ads.

San Jose 133

San Jose Customer Database Campaign 133

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

To quote the Boston Consulting Group , “Demand for health care is growing rapidly in emerging markets, a function of rising household incomes, increased discretionary spending, and aging populations. With the exception of Hemafuse, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

DOs for a systematic rather than haphazard startup job search: Pick a specific vertical or theme (e.g. For example here locally in Boston, dedicated startup job boards are actually fairly fruitful: VentureFizz , Greenhorn Connect , and Web Innovators Group. They’re hiring by definition because they just raised capital.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley, Nick led operations at Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based social media insights company, which was the first to partner with Twitter in understanding brand sentiment.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Cofounder Software Review Technical Review 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Boston University used Vidyard to create personalized videos that encouraged people to promote their fundraising event, “Giving Day.”. Display the video in 16:9 format for desktop viewers, then automatically resize to square or vertical for mobile viewers. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on. Everyone jumped.).

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

DAVID: There’s a second point, which I think is worth reflecting on too, which is: To what extent is the pathway from where we are today to fully autonomous vehicles a pathway of vertical integration versus not? That was out of necessity, since the auto industry didn’t really exist yet. LEE: Exactly.

Startup 120

Startup Vertical Seed Stage United States 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He decided that moving fast was more his speed, so he joined Conduit Labs in Boston in 2007, who was purchased by Zynga 3 years later. So, we could segment based on the industry or vertical or the company, right? From a buyer perspective, often things like company size, industry vertical, compliance needs, etc.

Product 52

Product Vertical Non-Compete Analytics 52

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

The company, Kelekona , aims to make regional travel as easy as an $85, 30 minute flight from NYC to the Hamptons, or to take people to DC or Boston in 45 for less than the cost of a train—not to mention with a fraction of the infrastructure. You don’t need to use eminent domain to lay tracks or bore tunnels.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Oklahoma New York City New York 97

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

When he returned to Boston he put together a business plan to build a water powered mill that required a $400k investment – $100k for the factory and $300k for start-up costs. Unable to buy any plans or models he committed the details to memory. play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 159

VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

Organized by Bootcamp Ventures, a small advisory firm for startups, fifteen Israeli startups will pitch their ventures to an audience of investors in Boston and New York. Guerillapps is a vertical social gaming platform targeting lifestyle & health moms; launching with the Trash Tycoon , a Facebook game for moms.

Artificial Inteligence 92

Artificial Inteligence Turkey Boston 92

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Babbaco has some terrific plans around these – I think it’s easy to imagine what they may be since the parenting vertical is so inherently social. Babbaco is just getting started, but we’re excited to be involved and thrilled that Jessica is moving to Boston to build a great company. youtube=[link].

Chicago 47

Chicago Vertical Incubator Boston 47

ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

A good example of responsive design in work on the example of The Boston Globe website. In addition use vertical-align labels (top) instead of left-aligned labels. Try making your browser window smaller and you´ll notice the images and content column shrink to fit your screen. Image source.

Mobile 115

Mobile Conversion Design Dividend 115

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

We’ve since moved from Boston back to our hometown of Waterloo nearer to family and friends. Reply Jim Murphy , on June 19, 2009 at 1:42 pm Said: My wife and I started a family with a bag – 3 kids in 3 years. At the time I was well into my last startup and she really carried the load.

Entrepreneur 331

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development 331

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Julisa was most comfortable in Boston. She had grown up in NYC and wanted to stay on the East Coast to be close to family but loved the vibe of the Boston tech scene. For Julisa, she was excited about SaaS, mobile’s disruptive force on vertical industries, and hospitality was of particular interest to her.

Startup 20

Startup Boston Vertical Community 20

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Julisa was most comfortable in Boston. She had grown up in NYC and wanted to stay on the East Coast to be close to family but loved the vibe of the Boston tech scene. For Julisa, she was excited about SaaS, mobile’s disruptive force on vertical industries, and hospitality was of particular interest to her.

Startup 20

Startup Boston Vertical Community 20

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020 : Cooperation between The Nest – ???? ?????? ?????? & Apply here.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60