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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches?

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Obsessive curation of the brand experience.

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. So I just consider affiliate marketing, part of this greater ecosystem of partnership marketing now, which includes influencer and B2B and aspects of business development.

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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Why Video Discovery Startups All Fail

Hunter Walker

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. It’s difficult on YouTube to find and manage the content you want to watch These are both absolutely true yet it doesn’t matter – video discovery startups are flawed products and even worse businesses. But don’t take venture capital.

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“YouTube is still the only place where you can passively monetize your content” – Online Content Evolution From Awestruck’s Sarah Penna

Hunter Walker

What was the difference between BigFrame and what people call Multi-Channel Networks (such as AwesomenessTV – who acquired your company). So, technically we were an MCN, but that was more a function of the landscape when we started than a business model. In terms of the vertical specific, that is the future.