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.

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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.

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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.

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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. It is already organized around vertical niches and topics.

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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”?—? Now bigger than social media, messaging apps are on practically every phone, and only growing in engagement. messaging apps are the new social networks, they are valuable, important and sticky.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.).

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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.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

This brings us to our refocused thesis: we like to invest in businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. We think that network effects can provide a long-lasting competitive advantage and can be very capital-efficient. But, we’re happy to take this risk in exchange for a greater upside potential.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). And some might point to the rise of mobile which created a difficult platform transition for Facebook (which we will address shortly). But it didn’t play out that way.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

With more than 600 million monthly active users, Instagram is one of the biggest mobile platform for businesses and advertisers and recently they launched Instagram Stories. Even if the rumors say that they are in a direct conflict, I’m definitely sure that these 2 platforms are on top of everything that is visually combined with mobile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2015

Essentially, Periscope is a mobile app that allows you to easily live stream video to other Periscope users or on the web via a link. A few social media experts have certainly jumped on it as a way to expand their “guruness.” What is Periscope?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. calcalist ].

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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. THE STARTING POINT: MOBILE ENCRYPTION. PIVOT #1: CASH ON MOBILE. Not all pivots are created equal.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Facebook is also the most popular social network with people over 65. Interestingly, vertical videos have a higher engagement rate than landscape and square videos. This makes sense when you consider that almost four in five people access the platform via mobile. But in the U.S. Image source. By comparison, only 1.7%

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

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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. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. Mobile Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. His knowledge of the e-commerce world was completely out of date.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. Let’s be honest – the majority of images are still snapped and left stranded on mobile devices.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. the Untouched Vertical. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. The VC Software Stack?—?the

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. Internet users in US – 225 million, mobile 260MM. Way ahead of the US on mobile gifting.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 16) Bring Change.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups to be mobile-carrier dependent.

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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.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

CallApp – is an end to end call management platform and a mobile application that reinvents the way people communicate over the phone by making the call experience more social, productive, and fun. CallApp turns the mobile network into a vibrant (and huge) social network by “wrapping” each call with social tools and information.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? In November 2009 Google acquired mobile ad company AdMob for $750 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The future will be more about leased living as the friction in doing so is reduced by mobile computing, instant knowledge of availability, and social / digital ratification of participants. Other forms of space squatting have included strange combinations like mobile food truck of Johnny Cupcakes & Junk Food Clothing.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Footbo - a football-centric social network that enables fans to follow leagues & competitions from around the world while easily connecting with fans from all locations. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. Mobile Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. It’s like arguing against vertical software.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. Our company develops our own POS system which would cater the needs of mobile businesses. 10 – Unique Social Network.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Simple editing. signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2012

Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read website content in an F-shaped pattern : two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. This is why you want your value proposition in the top and why your menu should be either top horizontal or on the left, vertical. Another study confirmed this. Image credit. Read here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

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. The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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