The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.

Early Stage 146

Early Stage Los Angeles Silicon Valley Cofounder 146

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. 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. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

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.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

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. Most important though is that the product or service is amazing at some level.

eCommerce 120

eCommerce Business Model Flash Curation 120

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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Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The advice, connections, and customers they seek are in all sorts of different verticals, and so it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to build out a conference where paying hundreds of dollars and spending a day makes sense to someone if only 10% of the content and audience is relevant. Mix up the formats.

New York City 97

New York City New York Vertical Curation 97

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

In this scenario the shop has generated the (foot) traffic and created a sale through curation and/or recommendation. In other words – they need to curate and/or recommend products that people don’t know, or aren’t sure, they want. Examples from our portfolio include Thread.com , Patch , and Snaptrip.

Curation 60

Curation Product eCommerce Vertical 60

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

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 enough sense at 46 to have 2 business partners that are in their 60s and one of them is our CEO.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

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. While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Kind of the model that Game Fit sites have where you partner up with somebody and you support each other as you try and do one more lap or push up. We actually, one of our partners is a fluent speaker of Spanish, which is one of the reasons we brought him on. I think those are your natural allies and those are your natural alliances.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Partner with industry publications to reach hundreds of decision-makers. 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.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. That podcast is included here along with a transcript.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43