Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Oh, one more thing.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. Data analysis for large verticals. Moving forward, we’re excited to meet great founders working on interesting ideas that leverage strong network effects – including marketplaces, social, SaaS, or AI/ML.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. In addition, Flugauto was selected as one of the Top Picks at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. SXSW attendees are also invited to Meet the Finalists from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday, March 16.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview. I attended in 2007.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Where as most start-up founders start with the conviction that they know success looks like and [.] Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be. It’s very different than the traditional product development model.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. He is seeing excellent results.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Francisco. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. Just come out and say no.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. anyone of any age can be an entrepreneur youngster founders may have one advantage -- time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4 Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. In 2012, the median house price in California was $300,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 13, 2016

The joke around San Francisco nowadays is that there is a transfer of wealth going on from VCs to consumers because VCs are funding these negative gross margin businesses like free food, delivery, parking, rides, etc. Rather than pushing a button and requesting an order, they have planned routes a couple times per week.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Whether you’re a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you’ve probably had the need to quickly understand an industry.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking. Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall. Founder and President Gilt Groupe. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. How the Remote Workforce Is Changing. 10 Essential PR Tips for Startups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. Up to 25 percent of the units in such buildings can be used as fully licensed STRs? Even today?—?in

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. What questions do you have for Lawee? More Popular Galleries.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. The overwhelming success of Opensource is a game changer.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Citefull Co-Founders: CSO Crystal Houston and CEO Kyle Grone The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 According to a Pew Research Center study , Americans rate fake news as a larger problem than racism, climate change, or terrorism, one that is eroding people’s confidence in government and each other. As a founder that resonates with me.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. Thanks to Linda Passante, The Halo Group. #3

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

A few weeks of organized effort should be enough time to develop a name and gain consensus among your co-founders, but if you’re on a tight schedule, it’s also possible to do in just a few days. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. ABCNews CNN Metro Yahoo.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. of San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company’s blog about why he considers.NET experience on a resume a general liability, saying that it will ‘definitely raise questions’ when screening for developers in his [.]. Fred Bosick.

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