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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. Context here.) I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. The MVP effectively functions as an evolving prototype, helping provide critical feedback on the efficacy of the app’s design and coding throughout the project.

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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. Expertise in a specific industry vertical or process? Build a solid value proposition.

SEO 147
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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. But then, because there might be entrenched competitors and your concept is radically new, you still need to invest in the customer development process to learn how to get design wins from companies who may be happy with their existing vendors.

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Unique ways to solve today’s talent crunch

Version One Ventures

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company. For example, Shopify acquired Jet Cooper , one of Canada’s top user experience and design firms.

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10 Ways to Adapt Your Marketing Strategy in a Crisis

Up and Running

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Understanding how your website performs on search engines is crucial to brand success. Knowing your search rank on the most popular search engine, claiming 93% of all organic search visits in the US, is extremely important.

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