YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? 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.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

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

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The first installment of this series covered Intvo , an AI-software designed to improve traffic safety. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Philadelphia 62

Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Votem Founder and CEO Pete Martin is a successful serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of experience in the technology business and enterprise-software space, and author of the upcoming book, “ Sparking a Mobile Revolution: How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It. ”

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. Here are the ingredients: Business model : This is actually the most important ingredient of the five.

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Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2023

The historical dynamic for software markets was one of ‘winner take all/most.’ Verticals where an incredible amount of investor capital was committed and even the ‘best/surviving’ companies ended up consuming a tremendous amount of dollars. What drove these mistakes?

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Vertical Business Model Demand Software 85

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. TDaaS uses 3D content to automate the creation of pre-annotated synthetic image data to train Vision AI models. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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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. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 124

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The major point that often gets forgotten is that no business model is the same. If you run a software start-up, gross margins are high, scaling is relatively easy, and capital requirements are relatively low. Great start-ups can be built in many categories and with many different business models.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users. Impact First, Business Models Second. Alignable ).

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

For many years, NextView has looked at many health-related businesses but invested in relatively few. We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

Vertical 120

Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. We are often asked what industries we invest in, but it is more important to have theses on business models that serve as strong filters. Vertical SaaS.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Take 3DR , who make drone aerial analytics software for the construction site. However, there continues to be trepidation to such change in the majority of the industry, and the reality differs across verticals and regions. Startups armed with powerful tech are changing what is possible in and around the modern construction site.

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Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model. Look at the Product Development model and you might wonder, “Where are the customers?” BPM vendor (every software vendor!) business model. before you ship. 28, 2010 ??: ??? ?? ??: ?? [.]

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 243

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. When I started Shapeways, complex software needed to be built and when I first reached out to developers, a lot of them laughed and told me it was impossible. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Never take no for an answer. Don’t listen.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Vertical markets: Expanding from books to other media verticals seemed unrealistic, considering both the music and movie verticals had a rapidly shrinking share of physical goods. Most importantly, we felt that we had optimized our business model to extract as much value out of the marketplace as we could.

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Vertical Non-Compete Asia Europe 130

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

IBM has just announced the acquisition of social recruitment business Kenexa for $1.3bn, the latest of a string of ‘social’ enterprise software businesses to be acquired this year. The first major acquisition of a social business was Salesforce’s acquisition of Radian6 for $326m nearly 18 months ago.

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Vertical Acquisition eCommerce Flash 94

Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. Still, that tilt towards consumer startups was limited to software and services. Is that too much to ask?

Vertical 60

Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Look for more interviews with other finalists in this space between now and the start of SXSW Pitch on Saturday, March 14.

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Atlanta South America San Francisco Artificial Inteligence 64

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Are These Your Slides?

Silicon Valley 243

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 243

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. Matt Cooper: We have focused in on creative as our real sort of core vertical and core area of expertise over the last 12, 18 months, in particular.

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Community South Africa Software Global 59

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

So far, installments in this series have covered Intvo , an AI-software designed to improve traffic safety, Sapient , a smart outlet system that saves energy, Radiobotics , which automates medical imaging analysis to improve results and efficiency, and Cove.tool, which helps design more energy efficient buildings.

Wichita 62

Wichita Kansas Kansas City Cofounder 62

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. Reply Sean Murphy , on June 25, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: @Prakash: at least for software there is an implicit relationship established. I’ve been in the exact same situation.

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Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 141

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

The reason they want to trade balance-sheet assets for strategy-execution, is that (healthy, growing) software companies are valued on their P&L, i.e. the size and growth of income and earnings. So the shift to mobile meant Facebook’s business model was breaking. Yet mobile advertising revenues were paltry.

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Balance Sheet Vertical Acquisition Revenue 242

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Unfortunately, regardless of a VC’s age, their business models are suffering and IPOs seem to be a thing of the past for at least a while longer.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

So far, installments in this series have covered Intvo , an AI-software designed to improve traffic safety, and Sapient , a smart outlet system that saves energy. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Denmark 62

Denmark Cofounder Vertical Europe 62

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Binaize (Bangalore, India) Nikhil Jois, CEO Binaize is a network intelligence software product for Industrial IoT that helps minimize machine downtime and increase the operational efficiency of industrial control systems. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While regular software handles data, DeFi handles money (digital money). This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Another movement we’re seeing right now is DeFi, or Decentralized Finance.

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San Francisco Cofounder Colorado Security 97

Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

A best practice when choosing a business name is that it should make it clear to people what you do while also leaving you plenty of room to maneuver and make changes to your business model or niche positioning over time. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. 7- My three-step process. #8-

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Naming Entrepreneur South America Social Media 118

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. The majority of businesses that apply for funding with Corl are E-commerce, SaaS, and other digital businesses.” .

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Disclaimer: all of this really only applies to software investors. Super high tech companies I think a lot of software companies would like to think they belong in this category, but the reality is that most software products are pretty easy to build. You don’t see a lot of “self-taught” folks in this category.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 13, 2015

SaaS is no longer a new business model. What are the areas that haven’t seen a modern piece of software in years? I believe most of the greenfield opportunities in SaaS today are beyond the traditional horizontal/vertical enterprise software areas. Sure, and I’m actively looking for those.

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Sales Cycle Government Demand Distribution 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Especially as the software catches up to the hardware. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Noire, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

Los Angeles 62

Los Angeles Cofounder Artificial Inteligence Vertical 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I’m a big on mechanical things, so I’m a watch collector and I appreciate non-electric cars because I’m a software person so anything electrical is too boring for me. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

San Jose 75

San Jose Cofounder API Silicon Valley 75

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10).

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Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48