Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir, Addepar and Formation8) kicked off a meaningful conversation with us on building multi-billion dollar businesses in big data at one of our recent Lightspeed Dinner Series events this week. For example, Government intelligence departments function as separate teams.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. With 10 slides, we convinced Steve Case, the founder of AOL, to invest $100,000 in Sisu Global.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

by Nick Candito, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. The investors are typically more experienced with venture investing, which is great for founders.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Often, investors miss out on vertically focused companies like RigUp as they find themselves overly anxious about TAM (total available market). based teachers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Referrals – Ask anyone you know who may have useful points of contact for you – your co-workers, friendly customers, your social media network – they may be able to connect you with perfect interview candidates.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Ciro Donalek , CTO and Co-founder, believes immersive environments are a great way to collaborate with other people and build compelling stories about your data anywhere in the world and in real time. It blends embedded easy-to-use ML routines, 3D visualizations and insights in natural language.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Not all pivots are created equal. Some pivots are just easier to pull off.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

Twitter hadn't been invented yet and there were no co-working spaces to run into anyone at--real ones like General Assembly and WeWork, or hacked ones like The Ace Hotel. First, the fact the Meetup.com was a NYC company and that the founder, Scott Heiferman worked with Dawn Barber to create the NY Tech Meetup was really significant.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6) 29) Stay at Home.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Our emphasis isn’t on slide decks and governance, but instead on helping founders build leadership, steady cadence and periodic strategic discussion into their thinking, which we believes contributes to startups being more prepared for a successful A Round. The majority of founders we speak with are raising a $1-2.5

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. If not, you might be like me and have 7 different email addresses for business names that I don’t use. Thanks to Jessica L.

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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. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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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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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. You can listen to the conversation here. There’s no doubt about it. So I’m just very excited.

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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. You can listen to the conversation here. There’s no doubt about it. So I’m just very excited.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Government and politicians are often the worst predictors or drivers of innovation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Citefull Co-Founders: CSO Crystal Houston and CEO Kyle Grone The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 According to a Pew Research Center study , Americans rate fake news as a larger problem than racism, climate change, or terrorism, one that is eroding people’s confidence in government and each other.

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