Reid Hoffman

MAY 23, 2022

Unlike much of its competition, Gopuff is a first-party vertically-integrated company. Under Gopuff’s approach, the efficiencies of vertical integration ripple outward, benefiting all participants in the Gopuff ecosystem. Centralized fulfillment means Delivery Partners can deliver more orders in less time.

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Network Effects as related to big data. 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. Network effects of knowledge are strong in the enterprise. Thanks again, Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. So why is this important?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Amber on Twitter @amberallen_aa #Gaming #Esports #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality #AmbersReality Andy Tryba recently launched a new company with Donald Park from Vista Equity, called Ionic Partners, after almost a decade running companies for Joe Liemandt.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Does partnering with other businesses make sense? Here are a few of the advantages to consider when partnering with another brand or business. Depending on who you partner with, this could be an entirely new complementary audience or an expansion of the market you already serve. But what if you own a small business?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

In fact, today, technology infrastructure is beginning to resemble a neural network. A network pummeled with bits of data coming at it from millions of devices — things — that few of us ever imagined would be computerized and connected. Two parts of the same network operating as islands. A bigger network of smaller things.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

If you think of the fact that most of the world still does not have smartphones (or affordable access to 4G networks), we are only in the beginning of massive data collection. In the late 1990s I was investing in enterprise integration, partner networks and business intelligence – the consumer web was still very much in its infancy.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 8, 2013

One thing that has always intrigued me, however, was how the "chemistry" between the "star" and the professional dancer they're partnered with has as much to do with the couple's success as the "star's" dancing prowess. However, partnering is more than simply two companies working together. It requires much more!

Partner 37

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

And by doing so, you build a vertically integrated marketplace with a much deeper value stack. Among the interesting new techniques that Wences and Xapo are using to build a global business is his approach to creating and growing a completely distributed company. Xapo has 275 employees scattered across 62 different countries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the Salesman Podcast, hosted by Will Barron brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. Well, I think that something that should be thought about with any content is distribution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lows, common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. Recently, they did a show on the four day work week. I've got an idea.

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Marketing Framework Vertical SEO 83

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. Most of your listeners probably know what it is.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. If you decide that the way you want to address all this is by becoming, yourself, an ad network, that is certainly one way of addressing the pain point. It's just not worth it. The business is effectively a Hotels.com of car rentals.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The financing round, led by PerformanceEdge Partners and existing lead investor S3 Ventures, provides the company with the funds needed to extend its marketing and sales initiatives and grow new partnerships. Most recently he served as vice president within the global strategic partner and channel sales organizations for Symantec.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Nurture your network; maintain your relationships. It is the innate power of a good founder’s network that will turn napkins into products and products into successful businesses. Here are five reasons why networks are an entrepreneur’s greatest asset: 1. Your network will become your partners, customers, and brain trust.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> social network/web analysis/etc. There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. We’ll be bringing other entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and corporate partners with us. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. I have enough sense at 46 to have 2 business partners that are in their 60s and one of them is our CEO. Semil Shah. I have a totally different point of view.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Originally trained in transactional entertainment law and the representation of above-line talent, Lee worked with a number of well-known writer-director-producers in both traditional studio/network deals and in arranging non-studio financing for independent film production including such classics as Bladerunner. in History from UCLA.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

They also use multi-channel content distribution to improve brand awareness and meet prospects where they already are. To achieve this level of synergy, Dialpad partnered with Demandbase, an account-based marketing software platform. How LiveRamp drove over $50M in annual revenue from 15 target accounts. via 6sense ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I invested in quite a few other startups.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I invested in quite a few other startups.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I invested in quite a few other startups.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Lots of trial and error, many many hours of unpaid work, networking and investment later I am proud of what I have accomplished.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

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South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Localized, where the entire buying process happens within a small—sometimes offline—network. Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. It created powerful network effects.

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B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Stephen Straus (@ssaustin) | Twitter Carolyn Rodz HelloAlice Featured in Fortune, Inc.,

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. Recently bought from AOL by Russian company (Digital Sky Technologies) for $187.5

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