YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This rapid contraction will leave the space run by just a couple of “big guys,” some finely positioned vertical players and a long tail of “local guys,” finding ways to thrive by serving a few small regions or cities. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. Small businesses move to the cloud. 2012, the year of Creativity.

Cloud 213

Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Leveraging network effects. Another way to build your network is to increase the value of the platform by opening it up for others to build on.

Japan 100

Japan Global Asia API 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. this time with Vince Thompson. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background.

Los Angeles 225

Los Angeles Revenue Southern California Social Network 225

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

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Front Desk is powering the personal services economy, helping providers manage their scheduling, payments, and admin from their mobile device. We welcomed two new companies to our portfolio in Q1; both will be announced at a later date but fall into the themes we have been exciting about: AI/ML/bots and vertical social networks.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. 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.

Mobile 151

Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2012

The conference format forces them to do a couple of things that haven't been easy to get them to think about and has a lot of potential lessons for how they think about networking and personal brand. We talked about focusing on horizontals and verticals--like financial education, technology's affect on art or mobile food.

Networking 99

Networking Vertical Curation Mobile 99

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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Marketing 96

Marketing Social Media Video Technical Review 96

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. You can target multiple mobile platforms at once with tools like BuildAnApp , or you can look into the geolocation angle with a tool such as Socialight or Shout’Em. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

They may have family or professional commitments that limit their mobility, and they may just not be comfortable hanging with the 20-something genius crowd that counts on free beer as an amenity and is on the cutting edge of technology literacy. Residency in a quality incubator is a plus.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. People still have to eat, work, etc.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

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

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? Nothing is more important to U.S. consumers than their entertainment choices, but are movies and broadcast TV even relevant in the new world of entertainment?

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I’ve been exclusively focused on marketplace and network effect business opportunities for the past several years. 3) Niche Managed Marketplaces – Within many verticals, there are opportunities to significantly improve customer experience.

Vertical 60

Vertical B2B Early Stage Mobile 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Regional Ecosystems. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Bay of Fires Tasmania.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

But even if that’s the right strategy for their business – and we’re not saying it is – many of these business owners may not be exactly be sure how to approach the social network. e-Commerce And Mobile Commerce Has Changed The Game. e-Commerce And Mobile Commerce Has Changed The Game. Mobile Shopping.

Advertising 150

Advertising Japan Mobile Social Network 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is the first of a two-part series on mobile conversion and how to improve it. It’s based on thousands of user tests conducted by UserTesting , the leading usability testing service for mobile apps and websites. Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert? But according to Forrester , up to 30% of traffic to major websites comes from mobile.

Mobile 122

Mobile Conversion eCommerce Design 122

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. Smart Mobility & Transportation Demo Zone. Blockchain 360.

Artificial Inteligence 81

Artificial Inteligence Europe Startup Cloud 81

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. There are nearly 941 million smartphones/tablets manufactured in Asia, with over US$203 billion spent on voice and mobile data services.

Technology 174

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Looking back, we feel that we made the best decisions with (and hopefully provided the most help to) businesses displaying strong network effects. This brings us to our refocused thesis: we like to invest in businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data.

Seed Stage 60

Seed Stage Vertical Networking Artificial Inteligence 60

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.

Vertical 120

Vertical Differentiation Internet SEO 120

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

JANUARY 14, 2020

Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. If you can’t invite people into your office and squeeze a new feature out of them, you have two options: Use social networks or a user-testing platform. A big part of that is speed and mobile friendliness.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

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

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

This is the second of a two-part series on mobile conversion. In the first part , we described the most common usability mistakes made in mobile commerce sites and apps, and how to fix them. In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce.

Mobile 99

Mobile eCommerce Design Analytics 99

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

Version One Ventures

APRIL 13, 2015

His second point is that an upstart can unbundle a generalized marketplace and focus on creating the best product for a specific vertical. It is a strategy that has worked spectacularly well for many verticals and Andrew Parker’s market map has become the blueprint for tracking the different companies that have chosen that route.

Vertical 60

Vertical Portfolio Mobile Conversion 60

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

We all like the entrepreneur a lot, but the company didn’t feel like it fit in any of our themes and was too vertically oriented for us. And it’s something that is magically enabled by the current state of technology – mobile, video, real-time social – a bunch of things have come together than make this work.

Advisory Board 133

Advisory Board Vertical New York Community 133

VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”?—? This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Anamika Mishra. This is day two.

Social Network 74

Social Network Russia Mobile Japan 74

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Then you have Instagram which has grown like a weed and also works on almost any mobile phone. Yes, I am there because of photography and not social networking primarily, but I am there. I too feel (and see) all these vertical brands moving into my Instagram stream.

Vertical 59

Vertical Social Network Channel Mobile 59

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. Powerful stuff.

Social Network 276

Social Network Networking RSS Vertical 276

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2017

Full stack vertical AI startups actually work – main reason: low level task based AI gets commoditised quickly whereas vertical AI plays solve full-stack industry problems with subject matter expertise and unique data which make them defensible. They don’t have a market. Many VCs are opportunity driven.

Artificial Inteligence 80

Artificial Inteligence API Vertical Algorithm 80

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

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance. Criticisms of the model.

Incubator 97

Incubator Entrepreneur Startup Vertical 97

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

Customer 247

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From a tech perspective, we are excited about how fast edge devices, including mobile devices, are improving both in processing and networking capabilities. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

San Jose 75

San Jose Cofounder API Silicon Valley 75