ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

For example, Neeva, a startup that tried to push the boundaries of web search and challenge Google by being the first ‘AI-powered’ search engine, found the hard way that’s one thing building a product and quite another to get users to change their habits and switch search engines.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s choppy with flat periods of stasis, and massive vertical progress leaps. One of the great things about the internet, is that you can only ever be 15 minutes behind. AI Creation Engine Chap GPT – Get it to create almost anything for you. Technology doesn’t advance in straight lines. We get to choose.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Our vision was that just as the PC was revolutionizing the business market, we were going to do the same for scientists and engineers.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I have always been interested in human-computer interaction based on AI, but as we use emerging technologies to develop new products, I have noticed that a great deal of output is papers and patents, but without real engineering and marketization. What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I genuinely believe that when it comes to internet investments, eCommerce is not only a VC story, but that it is the VC story. They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Here’s why ….

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

With a good article, you are more than likely to break the internet. It means that maintenance engineers will be required, further increasing the company expenses. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 30, 2013

Lawless, who formerly worked as senior director of online marketing at indeed.com, has launched a vertical search engine called FurnitureNear.Me focused on helping consumers find furniture near their houses to save people time from going to store to store and searching on multiple Internet sites.

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) None of this was an accident. It was all part of a strategy.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. Many popular search engines existed – Altavista, Yahoo, etc – and we never thought we would move away from all of them at once. The only difference is, this time, there is no bubble waiting to burst. At least not so, in my opinion.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2013

As to innovation, when a truly game-changing idea comes along, like the steam locomotive or the internal combustion engine, no amount of resistance is going to stop it. Such marginal increases add up even more with Rockefeller’s other favorite tactic… Vertically Integrate.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

One of Nimesh's questions was that he is discovering that the BPO/call center industry does not give Internet access to employees; hence, the solution would not be accessible to them. Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. Since SimilarWeb has international data, you can run these reports for any country and for extremely specific or broad industries and sub-verticals. You can still learn from both. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Small press (cheap or free). Search ads are expensive, however.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. We are deluged by data and information and this “big data” is only going to proliferate.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Once you can call a self-driving Uber/Lyft, the cost of transportation will fall ~75% (current driver take-rate), and probably 85–90% in the long run as cars are re-engineered to be designed as taxis first. Wall Street would have cheered on the move.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Internet investor Dave McClure coined the acronym &# AARRR ,&# to remember the parts of Customer Relationships on the web.). They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? but now they were actually trying to implement it. The Autonomow team started thinking how they could prove that their paper business model was real.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to Experiment Engine’s data, anywhere from 50% to 80% of test results are inconclusive, depending on the vertical and stage of the testing program. A surprising amount of tests end up inconclusive. As they summarize , “you better get used to ties.”. First, Don’t Test Dumb Things. Sometimes you’ve got to get bold.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place. Click to email him.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I agree with that, they are becoming no different to other large vertically integrated service providers like Facebook and Apple. As Danny points out, there is one important historical difference though, and that is Google’s “Do no evil positioning”, which gives the worlds largest search engine much further to fall than its competitors.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

Do you want to build that tomorrow or keep complaining about losing the yesterday? It’s worth reading twice.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Established companies launch incremental products that increase the offering (more features) for less cost and/or introduce products that more correctly align with an ever-increasing vertical niche within the larger market (the “sports luxury” automobile vertical for example). NIH stands for “Not Invented Here”.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. It's just not worth it. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Depending on your specialty (the vertical bar of your T), you may gravitate toward one language or the other. JavaScript directly impacts how search engines crawl and index site content. This article discusses the pros and cons of JavaScript and Python to help you determine which one you should go for. T,” as in your T-shape.

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