Differentiation Distribution Mobile Vertical 
VC Cafe
MARCH 1, 2024
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. It’s time to build!
The Equity Kicker
MAY 11, 2016
Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.
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View from Seed
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Its hard to imagine that the voice ecosystem will look anything like the mobile-app layer, or for that matter the early world of early e-commerce marketplaces. Voice-powered products and services will exist and succeed or fail via as yet unknown but fundamentally different looking distribution and discovery mechanisms.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 20, 2022
18:34] Could you talk about the need for balance in production value in the case of using really high-quality cameras versus shooting natively with a mobile phone? [20:01] TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. So those are kind of probably the two biggest differentiators.
Mucker Lab
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; DST invested $180mm last fall.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 14, 2021
You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). Brand consideration.
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