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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Companionship Differentiated value prop vs. generalist chat products – AI companion products hat specialise in content that mainstream models aren’t good at (or don’t allow), like fictional role plays or erotica. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. It’s time to build!

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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The Definitive Guide To Instagram Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. So those are kind of probably the two biggest differentiators. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. Jenn Herman (04:24): I mean, in general, Instagram still has other means of communicating. So you've got more variety of content.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. 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. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

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. That’s the beauty of a great content business. Semil Shah. I have a totally different point of view.