VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. Foundry Partners 2-4: “Absolutely. We should definitely do that!&#. For a little while that was the extent of it. Expect us to add to this list.

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Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 74

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally. while building their products in China.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry. We should definitely do that!”

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Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 48

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. Consider this.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. in History from UCLA.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Startup after Iron Planet?

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. The other option is to partner with a PR agency. If you’re new to programmatic marketing, start by partnering with a reputable agency.

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems. Even the World Economic Forum is now working with global partners for the development of construction. It simply would not work on a global scale.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They represent the result of a lot of hard work by the company employees, and external analytics partners. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements. What do you see?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&#

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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.

Vertical 68

Vertical Social Media Operations Stock 68

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

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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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2018

Potential clients might know you, know you are active in a vertical and have a problem they need to solve, but they need to have a belief that you can do the work effectively. This is why people travel, offer free audits, and distribute research. “We are seeing a variety of responses. How is your company prepared to act?”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

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. The challenge ahead lies in translating this technology + human solution into a product that can be distributed through established sales channels for maximum scale.

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Cofounder Vertical Algorithm Government 161

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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United Arab Emirates Switzerland Cofounder France 63

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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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!

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Partner Small Business .Net Vertical 37

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

The two friendly giant of Coles and Woolworth s are no longer partners of their suppliers – they are now their biggest competitors. Innovate radically to invent new ways to distribute consumer goods. To the boring area of distribution – the area that has been ignored for the past 20 years… Who they sell to.

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Australia Distribution Asia Channel 93

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. The same holds true for payments.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

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. Data on its own is meaningless, and can create more challenges than benefits, unless it can be quickly be parsed, analyzed and distributed to relevant entities.

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Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.” Because it isn’t until after first customer ship that a startup discovers that their initial hypotheses were simply wrong (i.e.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Enterprises that have gotten past this reflexive response are struggling with how to integrate all of this new, distributed stuff with their existing stuff. In fact, a recent IDC study showed 85 percent of respondents who said IT has become a more valuable partner compared to three years ago. A bigger network of smaller things.

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Cloud API Vertical Cofounder 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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Silicon Valley RSS Vertical California 212

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

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. We're gonna build websites for a lot of different Shopify stores. I've got an idea.

Marketing 83

Marketing Framework Vertical SEO 83

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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justinmares.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In most cases, this can mean buying ads, commenting on blogs and forums, reaching out to potential customers or partners, and making a strong effort to raise awareness of your startup. Think of several traction verticals that could potentially work for you, and come up with cheap ways to test them as acquisition channels. startupcto

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. Today Stathis Katinas from Greece, pitched CarRentalBookers.com , a business he founded with his partner Tristan Mcvean. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 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 lowest common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. We're gonna build websites for a lot of different Shopify stores.

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Framework Vertical Hosting Networking 79

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

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. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Most of your listeners probably know what it is. And so he wanted to publish a book.

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