deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2024

He is in constant touch with entrepreneurs in the EU discussing go-to-market, operational metrics. For the 112th episode of Burning Platform we have Ton Dobbe of Value Inspiration. Ton and I regularly participate in our respective podcasts and video series.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It follows then that anybody looking to join the fray will be going up against a raft of seasoned operators with money to burn. Many wannabe operators try to get around these challenges by focusing on specific gambling niches. And when we say ‘niche’ we’re not referring to things like iGaming verticals.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. 1- Recruit female executives recruitment. 11- Two goals.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. So what are the biggest barriers startup entrepreneurs experience in their route to achieve long-term growth? You’ll need money to get all the initial equipment, space, and people required to begin operations. Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

The metamorphosis includes day-to-day operations to the business processes of vital importance. Banks all over the globe have started incorporating digital banking and motivating their customers to switch all of their operations to the online mode. The recent turbulence of Coronavirus made all of us rethink business life.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. Affinity by industry.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

So that’s why we are excited about 2019 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s something other entrepreneurs look forward to: #1-In 2019, I want to get deeper! I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. 6- Diversity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out! Bio/healthcare.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. Reviewing financial & operational performance. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. He went to vendors for common hardware parts, went to outside software developers for the operating system and application software, and acted as an independent business unit. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 14, 2014

As a result, the tool can grab a large market share in a certain market segment or vertical. Think Mailchimp , Dropbox , Hightail or Unbounce for horizontal solutions or Clio , Jobber or Frontdesk for vertical products (disclosure some of those are portfolio companies). The post What type of market are you operating in?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. Our biggest accomplishment is having graduated over 700 students and built an operation that spans across the Atlantic with campuses in Miami, Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris. How is it unique?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Examples include the Conscious Capitalism® movement, founded by John Mackey of Whole Foods, the B Team , founded by serial entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, and the Benefit Corporation (B Corp) form of business now available in 35 states. The right partnership strategy can make a company relevant.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

If you are considering developing a vertical SaaS, it is your responsibility to communicate the technology’s robust benefits in a way that’s accessible to your potential customers. We keep all user features on the face easy to access and understand while the clockwork SaaS infrastructure supporting those capabilities operates out of view.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Operational inefficiency due to lack of information and control. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark … portfolio plug). My favorite part about being an investor is working with our portfolio companies, as well as other investors and entrepreneurs. I never anticipated how helpful or relevant my research skills would be in VC.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Votem Founder and CEO Pete Martin is a successful serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of experience in the technology business and enterprise-software space, and author of the upcoming book, “ Sparking a Mobile Revolution: How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It. ” Votem is based in Cleveland. Why Cleveland?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Change the rules of operations. entrepreneur Patricia Sigmon plateau profits startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment of many entrepreneurs on how negative VCs have become over the past nine months after almost five years of non-stop cheerleading. Consequently, entrepreneurs need not feel so lost in the woods. Vertical integration of different funding risks.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 4, 2015

Entrepreneurs and investors are excited by the massive opportunity potential, while others worry that the Uberification of our economy will turn every good full-time job into a flex-time gig. While these ingredients certainly aren’t unique to hiring a ride, they do not cut across all industries and verticals.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Find your niche. Underestimating your potential.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

” Sourcing feedback from LPs, VCs and entrepreneurs, here’s some of what I heard, and the implications: 1. Obviously too early to understand whether our changes made sense but we felt like they were appropriate based on market feedback and our goals in working with the best entrepreneurs. Chasing Hot Markets.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

When we set-up our next business our first decision was to operate with a remote workforce. About the Authors: Troy Lester Troy Lester is a Los Angeles based entrepreneur and the co-founder and president of WARP. Daniel Sokolovsky Daniel Sokolovsky is a Los Angeles based entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of WARP.s

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. That could be a market vertical, or that could be an audience. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists. Dentists would be market vertical.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. The cost of starting a company is much lower, and entrepreneurs have more support than ever to get started. It still surprises me at how few entrepreneurs go through this exercise.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. Entrepreneur Insider UK'

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males. 40% have been operated by “visible minorities”, 60% have been operated by “non-visible minorities”. Each year, Founders First Capital Partners works with hundreds of entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. That’s groundbreaking in accounting, where margins are thin and the overheard of operating in-office with year-round staff is high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Examples include the Conscious Capitalism® movement, founded by John Mackey of Whole Foods, the B Team , founded by serial entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, and the Benefit Corporation (B Corp) form of business now available in 33 states. The right partnership strategy can make a company relevant.

Startup 242

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark – portfolio plug). My favorite part about being an investor is working with our portfolio companies, as well as other investors and entrepreneurs. I never anticipated how helpful or relevant my research skills would be in VC.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Vertical Technical Review 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Doing so can help entrepreneurs not only secure funding in general but better recognize the pros and cons of taking money from certain types of individuals. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Adit Jain, Leena AI ! #6-

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here’s what entrepreneurs had to say about the companies they admire for their innovation. JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. One of the companies that are known for innovation is Apple.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. The takeaway for entrepreneurs is that they need to take the time to develop the requisite skills and then practice and perfect. Related posts: 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Diplomats.

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