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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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. On LinkedIn we rarely communicate with each other.

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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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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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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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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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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. million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers. calcalist ].

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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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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then, you can refine through testing different ads and web landing pages. 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. PIVOT #1: CASH ON MOBILE.

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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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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 am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. “And importantly Web 2.0 I still do.

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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. Web Video Roundup. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. Mobile Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

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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. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 And they’re largely right. startup, about Its Failure.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

The web and the app store is littered with terrific products that have a hard time getting scale, even though the teams behind them are strong and the product and market seem pretty attractive. 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.? Google bought web 2.0 In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Motorola Mobility.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. Other forms of space squatting have included strange combinations like mobile food truck of Johnny Cupcakes & Junk Food Clothing.

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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. I was just looking at your web site. Checkout [link].net

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

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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! Naming on the web is difficult because it’s a multiple-step process that’s a mix of art, science and pure perseverance. For my Adult web store I used my dogs name + Pleasure box and I came up with corbinspleasurebox.org. Latest Social Media News. GrowYourFish.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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