Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. Glenn Rogers of CarDomain , a community of auto enthusiasts, concurs: Traffic,traffic,traffic! Plan big, increment small.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

Proprietary selection (aka curation) – e.g. companies that build their brand and community around their product selection like Nastygal and Modcloth. Proprietary merchandise – e.g. vertically integrated retailers like Bonobos and WarbyParker.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2016

That’s one of the things I had to get used to while at YouTube — that most of the friends I made from within the creative community would be a lot cooler than me. Sarah is known in LA and in the online video community, so I wanted my friends to get to know her as well. .

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. founder Justin Kan went old school and gained traction through coverage in newspapers (remember those?).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Everbill: invoice and estimate service.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. The site had a lot of bells and whistles and an open community model, and generated some interest in the online ideation world.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. I have enjoyed pando as you build your community. 2:1 to old folks. Mama411 (@Mama411_). Jebb Dykstra.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

See: Behance , Dribbble , Carbonmade Build community  If you can establish a healthy and vibrant community on either side of the equation, youll end up with the potential for a great marketplace. Focus on a niche community  Beanie baby collectors. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. The Steps of Creative Communication – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop – [link]. 12 Unique and Creative Shoes – [link].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A 1) Industry reports.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. Here’s why: Verticalized content needs context not just collections. But just a collection of embedded thematic videos isn’t enough – the real fan wants content, community, editorial. So what would I do?

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. Though Tim plays lip service to community publicly, it’s not incorporated into the new company model. Tim is building a content-generation machine which will by definition of its creation find a (large) audience.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. Though Tim plays lip service to community publicly, it’s not incorporated into the new company model. Tim is building a content-generation machine which will by definition of its creation find a (large) audience.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. Well I appreciate that. Thinking about that heavily.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. A Move back to vertical living – Years ago we used to live above the store, or behind the craftsman’s workshop. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They create, curate, and share content on a regular basis, and, most important of all, are usually very receptive to guest contributions or sponsorship—providing an opportunity to get your business in front of thousands of extremely relevant eyeballs. Answer hyper-specific questions in industry-specific forums and communities.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. 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

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Curation of content: The platform should have a mechanism for separating signal from noise. Curation of participants: Platforms may need to have a mechanism for determining reputation of participants. Trust and reliability are key factors in online platforms gaining widespread mainstream adoption for high risk verticals.

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