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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. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has. Some companies, like Neeva.com, the first gen AI powered search experience, shut down earlier this month.

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

In an effort to reduce miscommunications, this platform helps start a conversation by dropping a comment on anything seen on-screen, and sharing a private link to start a conversation – in the context of what is seen. Next47 and American Insight Partners VC, demonstrates growing trust in its current and future business model.

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Horizontal Or Vertical Business Models: Which Is Right For You?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The point he’s making is that many marketers teach a business model that relies on using outsourcers, who often don’t have English as a first language, to create ebooks and other information products, which are then sold online using clever marketing. Why I Chose To Go Vertical. The Best Of Both Worlds.

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Freemium is alive and kicking

David Cohen

As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded. Real money.

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Fermi estimation for startup business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% You’re not going to get a 10% conversion rate from Adwords, for example. Fermi-style. So what can be shifted?

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Minimal cost. .