Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. Successful and failed experiments.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Free consumer app companies In contrast to the last two categories, successful founders of free consumer apps tend to come from any background. Do you have virality built into the product? Does the team know exactly what they need to do to go into business? These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

View from Seed

OCTOBER 18, 2017

When describing the Everyday Economy, it is helpful to talk about some of the verticals that are seeing wholesale redesign and the opportunities within those verticals. We have blogged about a few of the verticals so far, including housing , food , entertainment , and others.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2020

He is an innovation and marketing expert and the founder of the Non-Obvious Company which has spawned a number of books under that title, including the one we’re going to talk about today. We’re looking for, I mean half of the articles that go viral are, 10 speakers that you have to have at your next event.

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Curation Video Viral Government 39

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Well when I hear that I think of writing checks because I feel like that’s all I do sometimes as a founder of start ups is write checks because you don’t see them when they come in. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T. Jason: Wow, Chext.

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective. The other “first call” went to Founder Collective. Pose is no different. I still do. And they still do.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Not all pivots are created equal. Some pivots are just easier to pull off. Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

Distribution 66

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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. viral video. Determine which demographic — and therefore, which publication — would be interested in your startup. How the Remote Workforce Is Changing. Livestream.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

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.”. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? viral video. viral videos.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3. But it can also present an opportunity for new founders entering the space. Tyler Cowen interviews Marc Andreessen on Web3.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

6 Things That Can Help Female Founders Bridge The Gap Between Idea And Success crowdspring.co/1IoaLD1. Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. Why VCs Draw Big Salaries but Look for Founders Who Take Little crowdspring.co/1bf5Zuh. Google’s New Interface: Just Tell It What To Do crowdspring.co/1IT8RdO.

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Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

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. viral video.

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Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. The way I see it, you have two options: (1) keep digging, this goes viral, and your company is a joke; (2) apologize and/or shut up, and your company keeps bumbling along as it has been. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. sean is my user name.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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