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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs. Credit: Eze Vidra, VC Cafe). Side Hustle Stash.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2020

Choosing appropriate bed racking for your distribution center is a multifaceted procedure with a few considerable viewpoints to bear in mind. Choosing an inappropriate sort of racking may antagonistically influence your distribution center’s efficiency – or even lead to a costly re-fit inside a short time span.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Nobody has figured this out better than AwesomenessTV who not only has built an enormous online media presence but also packages and distributes shows for Nickelodeon.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The focus on audience, distribution, operational expertise, and vertical understanding matter – startups get funded by “non traditional” leads and this is a good thing.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

And then if you want to be altruistic, be altruistic with what you can afford to distribute.” Use that value to pay for the rest. If you need money to eat and put a roof over your head, do what you need to get money. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. With tens of thousands of new start-ups being created every year, the potential of a company to truly scale and become a large, stand-alone business is more crucial than ever before.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Identify key characteristics that delineate one audience segment from another, then create and distribute appropriate content. the product pages a given customer has been browsing) to segment and distribute content accordingly. Take Burrow , an ecommerce business specializing in home furniture. They use intent signals (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2018

Load balancing can be achieved by using a cluster manager which manages network data distribution. This ensures balanced load distribution and faster network response. Use Horizontal & Vertical Scaling. The other option to consider is vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is the ideal answer for pure scalability.

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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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020? Pay equity addresses equal pay for equal work.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Vertical integration is a strategy where a firm owns or runs several stages of production, including taking raw materials and turning them into finished products. Therefore, firms that adopt vertical integration own numerous parts of the supply chain. Vertical integration is capable of reducing cost through improving production.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds. Betting on the wrong horse.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Seth Rosenberg, Greylock Christoph Janz , co-founder and managing partner of Point Nine Ventures, pointed to t he potential of Generative AI to accelerate the adoption of vertical SaaS. Index Ventures also pointed out the potential of generative AI to disrupt vertical SaaS.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 7, 2022

Distribution Warehouse. If you’re in the business of shipping and distributing products, you’ll need to set up a warehouse. Here are some tips for setting up your distribution warehouse. You may also consider using a mezzanine level to store additional products or use vertical space to save on floor space.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Bottlenecking usually occurs on vertical scaled configuration when the load increases. The increasing CPU memory and RAM improve the site speed and its performance.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Statistics and distribution of forests by age, stock, height, weight and biological productivity. Satellite imagery is now available and affordable via numerous software and can be easily accessed online. Study of the forest species.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

Huggingface Open LLM Leaderboard – take a look at the evaluation benchmarks I’m particularly excited about the following opportunities at this point in time: Vertical use cases for generative AI that is embedded in the team’s normal workflow (like what Jasper.ai

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We want to see traction – specifically, how quickly you can capture the initial market or vertical** that you are targeting, and how engaged these early users are. The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model. News Business model distribution pitching scale storytelling vision'

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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.

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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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We want to see traction – specifically, how quickly you can capture the initial market or vertical** that you are targeting, and how engaged these early users are. The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model. News Business model distribution pitching scale storytelling vision'

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And distribution has become immediate, efficient, and highly targeted thanks to Google and Facebook. In just the past few years it has become a lot less expensive to start a new business in many other verticals. For example, you don’t need to buy servers anymore – you can just host your site on AWS.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team. Happy new year!

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

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. Is the distribution optimal? Oh, and don’t get me started on time! Why are there only 24 hours in a day?? What do you see?

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Mark Organ , saw a tiny space in the already very crowded CRM industry and founded Eloqua. Eloqua was the proof of that.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. That’s Toptal in a nutshell -- the best talent, from all over the world, accessible and ready to work. Where are you located? We don’t have a centralized location. Why have you been successful?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee Muhl, Managing Director, Growthink's New Media and Entertainment Practice Lee Muhl heads Growthink's entertainment-media vertical, encompassing the making and distribution of films, television programming, games, new media content and numerous related distribution platforms, technologies and methodologies including theatrical exhibition, DVD, PPV-VOD, (..)

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