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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs. Li Jin curates the Side Hustle Stash as a free resource to find platform-based work.

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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. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

Genuine VC

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

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. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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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. Who wins, the 20-something just out of college with unlimited energy, no family or other [.]. Semil Shah.