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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? Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Leveraging network effects. Another way to build your network is to increase the value of the platform by opening it up for others to build on.

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The rise of the vertical reputation graph

Version One Ventures

These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. They also give their users a better way to develop and curate their personal online brand beyond the LinkedIn resume. Recruiters and job ads now commonly ask for GitHub profiles.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do: Use LinkedIn, and later other social networks like Twitter, to curate a list of high-value, warmly-connected prospects. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Which of your client verticals are your champions? Open rates: 70%+.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. Why we’re excited.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. But it’s a real phenomenon.