The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

But India is such a welcoming country that it only took a few weeks of preparation to fill a weeklong schedule with meetings – from a dinner arranged by Shiva with approximately 15 founders in Delhi to a talk about crypto at Builders Circle in Bangalore. group pic from meet-up w/ Delhi founders

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2023

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. The startup grind takes a major toll on a founder’s mental health. Only 23% of founders report going to a psychologist or coach.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the 64th episode of Burning Platform, we host Rainer Zinow, who heads product management for SAP’s mid-market ERP offerings and Jory Lamb, CEO and Founder of VistaVu, a SAP midmarket partner which also offers their own complementary products In.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Corey is also the author of ‘Anyone, Not Everyone,’ a comprehensive guide for agency founders looking to move beyond founder-led sales. He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Not everyone.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. For example, you may need to reassess the vertical distribution of your sales team to focus on industries with higher returns. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. But ultimately, as our interests change, the one constant has been the founder. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. You’ll note the description “mission-driven founders.”

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deal architect

MAY 22, 2023

In the 89th episode of Burning Platform, we host Tony Thomas, one of the co-founders of Zoho. On this blog we have covered many aspects of Zoho – its unique culture, its vertical integration, its business model, its commitment to.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! At Remagine Ventures , we’re always on the lookout for visionary founders building the future of interactive entertainment and gaming. If you’re an Israeli startup founder raising a pre-seed round in these spaces, we want to hear from you!

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. Hunter Walk: One of my favorite things to do for founders is speaking with people who are considering joining their startup. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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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. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. We love founders that combine entrepreneurial vigor with deep and unique insight into areas of the Everyday Economy that others miss or underestimate.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company. Founder peers of yours who have gone through this process recently can be a wealth of information, advice, and investor ideas and referrals. Affinity by industry.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The experience of the agency’s initial founders likely dictates early business domains to target. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals. This makes it easier to brainstorm new ideas and attract talented professional candidates.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

However, for a first-time founder, the prospect of building a fully-functioning marketplace can feel quite daunting?—?you’re My big tip here for any new marketplace founder is to go niche. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). But they didn’t all start off that way. London) and category (e.g.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. You have access and relationships with a pool of talent that will produce founders. Maybe it’s statistical analysis, growth marketing, or deck making. Synthetic bio. Blockchain. Climate sustainability.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

That’s fine – my issue isn’t that an incubator isn’t good for the entrepreneur – that’s each founder’s decision. The rise of the vertical incubator focused on bringing together a set of startups aligned around a particular technology or industry. Implication? Now what DOES interest me?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Startups that succeed with this approach tend to have founders with deep connections in the industry they serve, and often previously worked for one of the large incumbents in the market. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation. venkatarag.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. Labor marketplaces for a variety of professions. Labor marketplaces for a variety of professions. On-demand and excess capacity apps.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Founders often deploy minimum viable products in limited release, building credibility and buzz with influential early adopters. They quite literally can’t afford to wait.

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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. Andy says we are “in the first decade of a multi-century trend” towards vertically integrated ecommerce.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has sardonically noted that the only defense companies to reach unicorn status in the past 30 years have all been founded by billionaires able to endure long gaps in funding. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I recently caught up with Zak Holdsworth , co-founder and CEO of Hint Health , who gave me some food for thought on new insurance models. This could be similar to Hint, as an example, where people buy memberships for standardized services in a particular vertical (i.e. Interest 5: Disrupting the status quo in insurance.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For new founder friends who are popping in to check us out for the first time, for old industry friends who are circling back around to catch up after a while… regardless of where you fall, we are so glad you’re here! We will continue to invest in founders who are redesigning the everyday economy. Check it out! .

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 26, 2016

Founders should focus their time and efforts on the areas that create the most value. When debating whether to hire in one area versus another, you should prioritize based on founders’ interest/knowledge in certain areas. With that said, here are some general guidelines I have developed over the years for building a management team.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! 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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

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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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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

Lifted right from first rounds findings and my bias at Company Ventures, I believe that a vertically integrated tech campus is a strong nucleus for founders and corporations seeking an environment of innovation. Seeing the world, augmented by tech, becomes a reality. 10/ Community is a moat.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 5, 2022

LIFT Aircraft in Austin has developed HEXA, one of the world’s first production electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, known as eVTOLs.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even when founders don’t get the desired response, they still appreciate our quick turnaround and even forward along referrals. In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! Invest in mission-driven founders. within 24 to 48 hours (90% of the time).

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