View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I think of two general buckets of known ‘wake-up words’ that will drive a voice user’s product and services bias: Established Internet Brands Today: Sort of like the Sticky Note, we recall certain brands as representative of an entire sector of product or service: Uber and Seamless have held this metonymy distinction.

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Vertical Differentiation Internet SEO 120

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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.

Vertical 60

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. However, in terms of the complexity of deal making and buoyancy of the Russian VC market, there is little to differentiate it from the West. Russian tech: Sectors to watch. billion in the UK and $5.5

Russia 140

Russia Europe Government Vertical 140

Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2018

The idea was to build a publishing-focused brand with events as a revenue base while we figured out our own differentiation in a crowded market — and then added business lines around advertising, custom content and now subscriptions. I joined Digiday seven years ago after many years reporting on the industry.

PR 64

PR Media Differentiation Audience 64

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). From then on, I remained convinced that SaaS was a much more efficient model, for both ISVs and customers — although many people remained skeptical on the viability of the model for a long time.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

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. image source. After two years of seeing customers really not care about the program, Alex decided to use card-based service FiveStars.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

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. image source. After two years of seeing customers really not care about the program, Alex decided to use card-based service FiveStars.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

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. image source. After two years of seeing customers really not care about the program, Alex decided to use card-based service FiveStars.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

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. image source. After two years of seeing customers really not care about the program, Alex decided to use card-based service FiveStars.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that technology to its competitors ! But instead, Bezos executed towards a much larger vision: to generate revenue on every ecommerce transaction on the Internet.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. I agree completely. link] Marco.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. All of which leads us to two very interesting rake examples that are front and center in today’s Internet – Facebook and Apple.

Europe 101

Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. 299/user for Vault vs. $0/user for Subversion? 21 Thomas Lie on 08.11.09

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Fab’s differentiator is taste and you don’t develop taste overnight, the two argue. ”We’ve been successful, because we’re not kids,” Shellhammer said. .” It’s fun because it draws on who these guys are, on their entire life experience and because no one else could run Fab the way they do.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Marketing intelligence experts at Datorama recommend tracking your branded impressions, internet search volume, and the performance of branded keywords. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. That’s easy, that’s super easy.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. Products your friends bought, etc.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Not all pivots are created equal. Some pivots are just easier to pull off. This was our “burn the boats” moment.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. Eventually, games that depended only on CDRom for their differentiation fizzled out, as people saw that the access times for all that data made the games a painful experience.

Silicon Valley 207

Silicon Valley RSS Video San Diego 207

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. That’s it.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

ConversionXL

JULY 27, 2015

The internet is an access point to a wealth of resources and services which could be of great benefit to people with disabilities. CX Partners agreed that users found it easiest to scan a form with vertical field labels. So why should you invest time and resources into improving your forms’ accessibility?

Conversion 48

Conversion Software Review Technical Review HTML 48

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ve been noodling on this post for a few months now, trying to find the best way to explain why a decentralized Internet is important and how we might get from here to there. It certainly seems that the use case and demand for a decentralized Internet has never been stronger. More inclusive models of stakeholder capitalism.

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Since users have learned to navigate the internet comfortably, they directly look for information in places on a web page where it is most likely to be. As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. Image Source.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Advertising 48

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Now I guess it’s “never bet against the Internet,&# with all that implies. Reply Idont , on October 16, 2009 at 9:12 am Said: How can you differentiate if you copy-paste the well established leader. I.e., they’d rather have a decent-performing personal machine than have to share a high-performance machine.

Silicon Valley 147

Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 147

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Some of the investments defy explanation… Money poured into something that no one has yet been able to monetise, with a competitive landscape that is over-saturated, and with no real differentiation from what’s already out there. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T oday, Internet users are overwhelmed with options to share and consume various types of media. VC Cafe: What would you say are your killer differentiators? We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. It took me 10 years to build Walla. I’m not here to make a quick buck. It takes time.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. It is unfortunate that our main differentiator is catering to the average consumer, but we are happy to fill the void in the industry.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? People price differentiate all the time. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210