Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. 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.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

However, let me tell you about a problem that founders occasionally tell me is the basis for their startup: podcast discovery. The startup usually pitches something like this: There are lots of great podcasts and most people can’t find the best ones for them so we’re building an app that solves this for them. .”

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

People who are not traditionally in VC can now invest in startups with a higher comfort level, because CrunchBase and AngelList have made data on thousands of start-ups publicly available. The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). The entrepreneur’s story and what brought them to their startup business. 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35). 22:00-33:00).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

We have media startups, healthcare startups, real estate tech startups, fintech startups—every kind of startup you can imagine. That’s become even more true as startup content flourishes online. In NYC, more and more people have joined startups, so they’re more familiar with the basics.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The value of startup landscapes is in curating a vertical category, and showcasing the various themes and startups in one area. Readers of VC Cafe know that I passionately collect Israeli startup maps. Greenfield Partners published the latest HR (human resources) Israel startup landscape.

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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups has announced the 33 newest companies joining its accelerator program this Fall. It is a rather interesting and complex set of startups in the group and could be considered the most international, diverse, and exciting group in the history of the accelerator program so far.

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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. For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

You could have the greatest idea for a startup in the world. Traction means having a measurable set of customers or users that serves to prove to a potential investor that your startup is "going places." There are a lot of different ways a startup can achieve traction for their product.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

It promises increased efficiency in the marketplace as worthy startups may be able to raise money faster and simpler than through traditional channels. The crowd funding platforms are well aligned with what low quality startups are looking for. And high quality startups will primarily continue to raise money from top-tier VCs.

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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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A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

Startups are attacking just about every vertical. However, I’ve been surprised to see one industry where there hasn’t been much startup activity. Perhaps because it’s unsexy and support calls may be life or death situations. It is an $84B industry in the US. . The Elder Care Industry.

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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. Fees for these devs and shops run from under $5,000 to more than $20,000. Another good resource is Appolicious’ directory.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the startup ecosystem is dependent on those wild Barry-Bonds-juiced-up-on-a-million-steriods-style home runs to keep functioning. I’m going to have a much longer post on TastemakerX when it launches, but it’s also a company that relies on an underpinning of curation and taste. 2:1 to old folks. Mama411 (@Mama411_).

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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. Guru recruitment has been very successful, and we have customers who are waiting for us to bring our first Guru team specializing in Hi-Tech startups online.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

There are, of course, other companies which make scads of money from carefully curated email lists. Many social startups are extraordinarily aggressive with this early in their lifecycle (I’m looking at you, Quora) and gradually back it off over time. I keep a list of my best work curated. DailyCandy sold for nine figures.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Sad to see Cory Booker’s startup Waywire pivoting to “Pinterest for video” after starting with much bigger ambitions. My previous role leading product at YouTube put me in position to see a lot of video startups. Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Media Relations 101 for Your Startup – [link]. The Five Whys for Startups – [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 Steve Jobs.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Just think about how many startups try to compete with Amazon these days. The line of Amazon Basics is incredibly carefully curated, selected, and maintained. You could say this is vertical integration or a move to full-stack or managed marketplaces. The answer is basically zero (Jet being the notable exception).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

He also hosts his podcast—Startup Confidential and routinely appears in trade magazines serving the CPG industry. He also hosts his podcast, startup confidential and routinely appears in trade magazines, serving CPG, the CPG industry. But direct to consumer seems to be driving a lot of these startup brands.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Some now predict there will eventually be startups that produce some kind of a digital vault and we’ll get to choose whom to release data to.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

I actually think the democratization of this technology, the innovation, and eventually the human impact of this technology is mostly delivered through industry, through startups, through companies, through their products and services. The past year I think there’s been a huge heating up of drug discovery investment and startups.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

I actually think the democratization of this technology, the innovation, and eventually the human impact of this technology is mostly delivered through industry, through startups, through companies, through their products and services. The past year I think there’s been a huge heating up of drug discovery investment and startups.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platformed.info. Curation of content: The platform should have a mechanism for separating signal from noise. You can follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit. Too many Airbnbs spoil the party.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups.

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