YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

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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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

The company closed a large Seed Round in December 2012 from Mangrove Capital Partners and is “on track with our growth plans to follow up with a Series A round in Q1 or Q2 2014?. It’s through this partnership with Qinec that Price hopes Zesty will be able to expand through “all the other verticals” and, as importantly, outside of London.

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Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Richard: We have the largest network of on-demand CPAs in the world, and when you do that you can do a variety of work, get it done relatively quickly and for less money than compared to traditional tax-shops and CPA firms, and you do it virtually. Magazine’ Inc. TSM: How is Taxfyle impacting the world and your clients?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. And their branding and demand creation activities were going to occur primarily outside of Australia.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Creators Platform Dependency. Take Twitch for example.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Booster partners with large businesses to offer on-demand gas fill-ups on their corporate parking lots. million round from existing investors: Floodgate, Second Avenue Partners, V1, and Rich Barton. In other funding news, Front Desk raised a $3.5 Our new investments and refined investment thesis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

AI consumer productization places higher demands on human-computer interaction, which can also empower artificial intelligence products. Ling Technology is a board member of Jibo an exclusive partner in China. In segmented scenarios and vertical markets, Ling may have greater advantages than Baidu, Alibaba,and Tencent (BAT).

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Artificial Inteligence China Technical Review Cofounder 56

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The other option is to partner with a PR agency. Marketing Week adds a bit more context: “Put simply, brands or agencies use a demand-side platform (DSP) to decide which impressions to buy and how much to pay for them, while publishers use a supply-side platform (SSP) to sell ad space to brands. What size audience can they offer you?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. Has the U.S. movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Netsuite has always had a couple of dings attached to them, first a weak channel strategy and somewhat related to that is a haphazard approach to partners. The company recently brought on board a Salesforce.com veteran, Ragu Gnanasekar, to deal with platform and partner opportunities. I completely disagree with this statement.

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San Francisco Software Review Vertical Cloud 36

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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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. Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics. As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 23, 2022

Unlike much of its competition, Gopuff is a first-party vertically-integrated company. And because it controls all aspects of its business, it’s also able to modify its product assortment and pricing to stay inline with actual instant-needs customer demands. Currently it can pack the average order in just 90 seconds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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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.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This is largely due to a growing demand for a sales reporting method that draws data from various sources and provides a more detailed, yet easily understandable, report. The balance of the connectors partners with Data Studio, allowing you to draw data from social media, search engines, CRMs , and other external, non-Google-related channels.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g., Start with 10 monthly clicks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Palantir has been able to repeatedly pair it’s core analytics platform with human investigators who unlock business value across a variety of vertical domains. But when one team achieved an analysis breakthrough with Palantir, demand for their solution from the adjacent intelligence groups followed very quickly.

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Cofounder Vertical Algorithm Government 159

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

As a result the young company is now saddled with an expensive, scaled-up sales organization frustrated trying to execute a losing sales strategy and a marketing organization desperately trying to create demand without a true understanding of customers’ needs. Why change something that has worked so well over the last three decades?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. And so today, because the role is so demanding, I think we gotta pause and think a little bit about what have you signed up for. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Or because they stuck around the longest. They had the most tenure.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

In fact, a recent IDC study showed 85 percent of respondents who said IT has become a more valuable partner compared to three years ago. Orders are placed every day to a mix of vendors, based on demand. Think of it as a compute supply chain, with the CIO managing the vertical integration of this chain. Where opportunities lie.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The end goal is to create massive demand for fruits and vegetables that restores soil, climate, and health-accelerating systems. Through being a ReFED Global Innovator , I have the opportunity to partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and track the latest innovations as part of the ReFED network. We are surrounded by top-notch people.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. While these are all credible let’s be honest – it’s a little boring.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 99

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Ask yourself: Are they in demand? Legally, each partner is responsible for themselves and each other. Any lawsuits that occur can potentially involve all or both of you, so be sure that partners are aware of their duties and any legalities that may surround them. See Also: How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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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.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. To quote the Boston Consulting Group , “Demand for health care is growing rapidly in emerging markets, a function of rising household incomes, increased discretionary spending, and aging populations.

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