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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.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences. Demand generation is about creating demand.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. 11- By identifying customers demand. Not only does our name look back to our history, but it looks ahead to our future goals.

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Demand Generation: Turning Tactics into Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s also the same one we apply to demand generation. You (supposedly) do demand generation—or you would if you just ran LinkedIn ads, too. But demand generation isn’t a pile of tactics. It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. You email them.

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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. Real-time search engine. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. But it’s a real phenomenon. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video.

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How valuations are really determined at the seed stage?

Hippoland

In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand. Investor demand here is unfortunately not in your control. It will be REALLY important for you to put a LOT of work into your differentiation story.

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Tesla Is Not A Car Company

Austin Startup

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Once you can call a self-driving Uber/Lyft, the cost of transportation will fall ~75% (current driver take-rate), and probably 85–90% in the long run as cars are re-engineered to be designed as taxis first. This is pretty astonishing. Scale, scale, scale.

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