Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning. SaaS startups need to have a VC that understands the SaaS model, including market development strategies, upsell dynamics, sales incentive plan, etc.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Silicon Valley can frequently be too provincial in its views of entrepreneurship, strategy, and markets. In my previous podcast with my friend and entrepreneur Wences Casares, we talked about the ability of entrepreneurs down here to see global markets that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs might miss. The same holds true for payments.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Over the next four years, Sisu, which strives to be the future of medical devices in emerging markets, expects to impact 14 million lives with Hemafuse?—?direct It is not only U.S-.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Order Here.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

If you would ask me what part of the market is most underserved by technology companies today, Id tell you its small and medium sized business. Labels: sales and marketing , Small and medium businesses , software. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It is also the world’s largest smartphone market. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. Meanwhile the U.S. monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). As such, they were able to signup nearly every small hotel in Europe.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . Region: Global with focus on Europe and US . —– Indie.vc 20% initial ownership. redemption, revenue share, etc.)

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The Global AI Index ( source ) To date, AI21 Labs is the only Israeli startup developing LLMs (it raised an impressive $64M in July 2022 ), and most of the companies operating in this space are in the application layer or the tooling/infrastructure layer. I can imagine there are opportunities here across industries/verticals.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Second, it set a cultural norm at my startups, first at Supermac as the VP of Marketing, then at Rocket Science as the CEO and at E.piphany as President. When the kids got older our adventures took us to Mexico, Ecuador , India, Africa and Europe. Long vacations. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.)

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Given technology is becoming the major form of market access – it should now be viewed in the same realm as access to medicine and education.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. It’s like arguing against vertical software.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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