Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, one takeaway is that we’re again in a period where the most exciting investment opportunities possess real technology risk. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

The essential requirements for food brands and restaurants have changed along with customer eating habits and the rising demand for delivery services. To stay competitive, they have had to build a robust online presence; that’s why we have witnessed the decreasing demand for website development.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When you don’t have to worry about technological concerns, you can focus on your company. To put it another way, this implies that you won’t be tethered to an IT service provider that can’t keep up with your company’s evolving demands. You should go to the cloud for the following reasons. Automation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. We were also positioned as experts in a specific technology, and as time passed, this space became more and more commoditized. We start mapping out a simple campaign.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

90%+ of VC’s will tell you that their focus is either a technology or a space. For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. This earns you the right to do more.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

billion quarterly revenue, driven by surging demand for its AI chips. As Index Ventures Partner Mark Goldberg put it in a WSJ article : “there is a shallow trough of disillusionment” Startups that enjoyed the buzz are now realising that they also need to become good businesses, not just cool technology, to survive. trillion).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

era, in particular, we hear about and we experience many cases of what’s called “disruption”: disruptive innovation, disruptive technology, disruptive product – anything which overturns the traditional model. Source: Pixabay. Sometimes the disruption started from scientific research. Sometimes it initiated from a quest to beat the competitor.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch , Parks will pitch Sapient in the Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics Technology category, (9:30 to 10:30 am Saturday, March 14), aiming to impress a panel of expert judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation in emerging technology.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The approach allows users to generate limitless amounts of training data on-demand; customizing the camera type, lighting conditions, occlusions, and materials in a training set purpose generated for each application. Launching our public dashboard tool for on-demand training data generation. What is your top goal for LexSet for 2020?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. What’s new is how technology allows companies to execute these strategies at unprecedented scale while also streamlining what were previously complex processes. That starts with platform thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public. As a result the bigger buyers will look to fill gaps in their vertically integrated offerings.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in technology and communications at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, and technology start-ups you’ve never heard of, she has a proven track record of building successful companies with strong core values that are dedicated to its people and customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 7, 2019

Over the years, we’ve seen a revolution in how labor is supplied because of technology. That only worked because you could connect everyone via technology—routing phonecalls, e-mails, design documents, etc. In short, they’re offering Certainty on Demand— a term coined by Michele Serro, the founder of Doorsteps.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2023

Verticals where an incredible amount of investor capital was committed and even the ‘best/surviving’ companies ended up consuming a tremendous amount of dollars. Narratives and spreadsheets which somehow would take low margin, high fixed cost businesses and transform them into technology companies. Self-storage on Demand.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Technology? Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Where do the ideas come from?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.).

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

His new book Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation, explains how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. In the digital age, technology has pervasive impacts, and data plays a central role in transforming customer value propositions, operations, and the structure of industries. [02:44]

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. During this period he spent the majority of his time in the design and research field wondering what the future of AI technology was.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

We usually tend to think of innovation in terms of advanced technologies. Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. They also risk the short supply of organic milk due to the rising demand.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You must also organically aggregate demand. Opportunity for Technology to Add Value. In many marketplaces, the technology offering greatly enhances the user experience. They have overlaid this data with maps and search technology that provide remarkable richness to the home buyer. Size of the Market Opportunity.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

3) It’s likely your outbound sales and/or demand gen efforts have been focused on the highest converting new customer segments. By lead type and vertical? Pete brings 15+ years of experience as an operator and sales leader at technology companies ranging from $1M to $750M in revenue. By lead source? Invest more? Invest less?

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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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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Inworld AI, takes this type of technology to create game characters using text. digital collectibles) are only valuable if there’s an active market of supply < demand. But as trading volume (demand) goes down, so does the price and people will only buy them if they believe they will increase in value again.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. After looking at poor online labor marketplaces and expensive consulting firms, I decided there was a need for a high quality labor services driven by technology. How did you come up with the idea for Toptal?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Digital health, defined as the use of technologies to drive improvements in the design of medical products and the delivery of health care services, shows no sign of slowing. As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . The Technology . The ad networks manage what space is available, matching it with demand from advertisers. . The technology underlying the process is a central ad server. . They’re good for getting attention pretty easily, and they don’t use a lot of text.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. Test channel and demand creation activities in the U.S. Trip 4 to the U.S.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Forgotten about selected vertical markets within the niche? One more thing, absolutely common to technology companies: generations of technology do not transition easily.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2021

From left, Matthew Iommi, CEO of Fetii, and Justin Rath, chief technology officer for Fetii. Fetii’s platform and network of 15-passenger vehicles deliver on-demand transportation for groups of riders. Image: Fetii] Like other ride-hailing services, Fetii lets users order on-demand rides or schedule transportation in advance.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Has the U.S. in History from UCLA.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. Implement the right workflows and technologies to gather and process the data. For example, you may need to reassess the vertical distribution of your sales team to focus on industries with higher returns.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The greatest risk in startups —and hence the greatest cause of failure—is not the technology risk of developing a product but in the risk of developing customers and markets. Likewise, business program must educate marketers to deliver more actionable results (read: less fluffy) that can really drive all the technology work.

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