Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. So Why MiTú?

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

They are artifacts of an older time, before the Internet made it so easy for people to share their work with the world. These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. LinkedIn seems to be stuck in the middle of the old and new reality.

Vertical 60

Vertical Reputation Portfolio Curation 60

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

At that time, Version One was a generalist firm, investing in consumer Internet, e-commerce, SaaS and mobile companies. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . Fast forward to today.

Founder 213

Founder Vertical Differentiation Portfolio 213

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The trend now seems to be bending toward incentivizing network participation , where those who see the opportunity will want to not just invest in a new network, but put their time and resources into participating by running nodes themselves. 1/ Social Network Interference. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon. My goodness, where to begin.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Network Effects. You can pose this question to either side of the network – demand or supply.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. I first met the team at TechCrunch50.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2018

Hackers are looking for all sorts of ways to penetrate your IoT gateway, including the exploitation of software, network, and physical vulnerabilities. To minimize network downtime and improve operational continuity, implement the use of IoT gateway clustering. This creates a mesh network of devices and ensures redundancy.

Vertical 136

Vertical Architecture Security Distribution 136

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

With a good article, you are more than likely to break the internet. Network Limits. The network speed of the hosting provider will determine how fast your servers will transfer files. Network adaptors have fixed speeds, which are 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s, and 1Gb/s. Vertical Scalability. It is flexible for blog writing.

Vertical 121

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 121

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network. Unless he can get a network to buy in, there will be no point in producing the show. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. As the first generation born into an established Internet, with a smartphone at hand from a young age, Gen Z’ers place a high value on self expression. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. The 1% rule is now changing with Gen Z.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Key takeaways from the episode and more about Arnie Kuenn: Learn more about Vertical Measures. Key takeaways from the episode and more about Arnie Kuenn: * Learn more about Vertical Measures.

Customer 71

Customer Vertical Audience Internet 71

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. It’s like I’ve spent the last almost 20 years of my life building social software, you know, making it so that whatever limited computation you have, you can kind of share something about your experience. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO.

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

Angel Investor 334

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 334

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With a new market emerging around advances in neural network recognition of vocal inputs, efficiency may well be the core advantage that drives user adoption and so overall maturation of the voice sector. But many users may be satisfied if the original request is fulfilled, without caring which internet product or service carried it out.

Vertical 120

Vertical Differentiation Internet SEO 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Give your business an instant presence through online networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Reinvent yourself to meet a modern market: If you are a paid technical instructor and your classes are shrinking, offer training over the internet. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

Entrepreneur 234

Entrepreneur Vertical Reputation Valuation 234

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The growth of the Internet of Things gives us an interesting look at how the CIO’s role is changing. The Internet of Things forces us to look at the world – the technology world, at least – very differently. In fact, today, technology infrastructure is beginning to resemble a neural network. A bigger network of smaller things.

Cloud 128

Cloud API Vertical Cofounder 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

Give your business an instant presence through online networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Reinvent yourself to meet a modern market: If you are a paid technical instructor and your classes are shrinking, offer training over the internet. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

Startup 236

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 236

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Plus building out a telecom network to the home is pretty hard and costly… there’s a reason Google Fiber is available in precisely 1 of the top 100 US cities.

Hungary 168

Hungary Dividend Vertical Preferred Stock 168

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device. This, too, results in skewed data. Conclusion.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

The TechXLR8 event brings together 8 conferences, 300 exhibitors, live demonstrations, and tremendous networking opportunities that are critical to startup success. Networking Benefits. Learn how this revolutionary technology will transform industry verticals. Best 5G Fixed Wireless Network Solution. Change the Future.

Artificial Inteligence 81

Artificial Inteligence Europe Startup Cloud 81

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

Angel Investor 257

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

Give your business an instant presence through online networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Reinvent yourself to meet a modern market: If you are a paid technical instructor and your classes are shrinking, offer training over the internet. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

Startup 230

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 230

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). 2) Raise capital.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the last 3 decades, IT has evolved from providing infrastructure and hardware to a more strategic role that is intimately woven with business verticals as shown below: - 1980s to 1990s: Servers, Storage, and Communications Infrastructure. Macro Trend 3: IT “Tuned” for Industry.

Technology 159

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 159

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. First Angel Network (Halifax). Wilmington Investor Network (NC). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals. Median: 2.75.

Angel Groups 169

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. Think Linkedin – social networking concept adapted to the business industry. Every business vertical has issues that will range from areas in marketing, customer acquisition, customer service, sales, operations and others.

Mobile 151

Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Luckily, we had our team spread across the world and were able to get these (real) shots without spending a fortune: We selected a few reporters that wrote about our space (had expertise in it) and started shooting pictures through their social networks. With a nice “Can I email you about Slidebean? Small press (cheap or free).

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Indeed, what Joby ultimately envisions is a new human mobility network that takes short-hop transit from 2D to 3D.

Merger 28

Merger Vertical Mobile Architecture 28

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This privacy-as-a-service API platform provides peace of mind to companies and the customers they serve in the world of AI and smart devices by building a new privacy infrastructure for the internet. We are excited that privacy has become more important to many people, including policy makers and individuals.

San Jose 75

San Jose Cofounder API Silicon Valley 75

thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. If you think of the fact that most of the world still does not have smartphones (or affordable access to 4G networks), we are only in the beginning of massive data collection.

Venture Capital 88

Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). One of Nimesh's questions was that he is discovering that the BPO/call center industry does not give Internet access to employees; hence, the solution would not be accessible to them.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112