David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2016

” Enterprising founders were telling us about a future where many configurations of sensor-enabled hardware would be paired with software and developer communities to form new platforms. Of new devices and machines that could dramatically reduce costs, increase quality and create new industries. b) Had platform potential.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical. Athenahealth's Culture. Visionary CEO.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. Pitchbot.vc

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Cove.tool is a game-changing, machine learning technology that helps users discover smarter ways to make their buildings energy efficient while saving on construction costs. To make sure every new construction and renovation is optimized for energy and cost.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. For businesses that want to transport cargo, they offer the benefits of a helicopter, including speed and access to remote locations, but at the cost of ground transportation. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Sajeeva and his cofounders have good domain knowledge of the retail business, but have not yet done sufficient validation of the idea. Nwenna Kai then presented Food Is Our Medicine Vision , an online training concept through which she wants to teach community leaders how to create healthier living concepts like organic gardens, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Your open source competitor is going to win when it comes to college students, hobbyists, and other groups where time is worth a lot less than licensing cost. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Organic social: Build a community. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. How can you reduce the cost of testing and optimization? Where does growth hacking come in?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). Opportunity cost is very real for any stage company, but it is critical for an early-stage one. make that fourteen years now).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T.

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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.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As cofounder of an early stage venture fund myself, I’m here to tell you that while these statements are accurate, they’re also misleading when trying to understand the broad impact these implosions may have upon a firm. Opportunity Cost of GP’s Time. Opportunity Cost of Follow-on Capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important? But the problem was that I was married.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. That’s massive.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4) Company : BricaBox.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

He was one of the founders of a conference called Local You and now is a co-founder of getfivestarts.com a review service that helps local businesses. Let’s say saint Louis is a community that has a really interesting local ranking issue. So Mike, thanks for joining me. Mike: Sure.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? On2 Technologies. Google bought web 2.0

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. –jason The costs of entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship for Self Empowerment , on August 4, 2009 at 8:56 pm Said: [.] Thanks for being such a great thinker and advisor to the startup community!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. It forces the founders and investors to understand where the technology can play a pivotal role in shifting control from the big tech companies to the user, and where it needs to improve, such as the negative environmental impact of mining etc.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community. It also has synching services that usually cost money.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. In a few years, most media on the internet will have been created synthetically, especially video with its high production costs, monetisation potential and dominance to grab attention as a medium compared to all other media.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. I go to places in the community to speak about mental health treatment services where most other treatment providers would hardly ever consider.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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