Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

It is a “talent first” company but one under-pinned with a serious multi-million dollar investment in technology that has helped fuel our growth and will continue to provide tools & support for our talent. I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. ” It’s true.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. The name of the brand is on both the physical product and on the website. our partner company Spoke ).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Whether you want to call them incubators, accelerators or any other name, the template is pretty similar: fixed amount of time inside the program in exchange for equity (and sometimes a cash investment). The rise of the vertical incubator focused on bringing together a set of startups aligned around a particular technology or industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. IQ Engines is an image labeling and photo recognition platform that relies partly on technology to identify photos and party on a crowdsourced team of people who review the photos and tag them with the idea of the system learning and automatically becoming better through the process.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. During this period he spent the majority of his time in the design and research field wondering what the future of AI technology was.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate. Her name is Pamela Menges, and she’s President of a high-tech start up in Cincinnati. Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? – Dr. Pamela A. Menges 2 Feb 2013.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Technology? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Where do the ideas come from?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. When technology changes are rapid you want the founder to continue to run the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

His new book Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation, explains how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. In the digital age, technology has pervasive impacts, and data plays a central role in transforming customer value propositions, operations, and the structure of industries. [02:44]

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In last week’s The Economist, the gist of the lead story is that entertainment – an industry that has been associated with flailing newspaper subscriptions and, relatedly, a sector struggling given the rise of technology – is in fact, the “new oil” for the contemporary epoch.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. We’re growing our technology team because as I’ve outlined in the past the best online video companies are a perfect mix of technology and storytelling.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

While that might sound pleasing to the ear, it’s important to consider the speed at which technology evolves. Are you comfortable with your employees using four-year-old technology? Leverage modern technology. Also consider this: You have to assume that your competitors, or at least some of them, are investing in new technology.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For example, instead of bidding on the same terms as rival platform Asana, which will probably be more expensive, monday.com bids on its competitor’s name: Because of lower competition, competitor brand names tend to be cheaper. Putting more constraints on your creativity are two significant challenges: 1.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Yet, in my own work with various incubators, I am often struck by the lack of vertical focus. But if you believe software is eating the world, vertical industry by vertical industry, business process by business process, then we should start seeing more entrepreneurs pursuing vertically-centric strategies.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Technology doesn’t advance in straight lines. It’s choppy with flat periods of stasis, and massive vertical progress leaps. AI Image Generation – Dall-E-2 , Mid Journey , Stable Diffussion AI voice changer in real time – Celebrity voices, you name it – Voice.ai

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I think now it's more about, I guess having a horizontal relationship with the people in your audience versus a vertical one. So vertical, you're the expert. John (13:18): I'm the same way, only because every room, the technology is different and I always want to make sure that stuff is going to work. I'm like, I'm there.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

As you’re doing your analysis, write down your observations, take screenshots, and give them descriptive names to make it easier to browse later. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. and compare to what you have on your website and in your idea backlog. reviews, trust).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

They were giving us names of people that were not salespeople. I'm just gonna call the 28th name on this list of 50 people that I have to talk to that day. we have talked to advertising technology salespeople who hate technology, right? Their, their job is to sell technology, but they hate it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2019

The ideal solution is to maximise the use of vertical space with the help of pallets; in other words, go upwards and not outwards. Vertical storage is going to work out for the best of your warehouse in the long run. There’s always improvement needed with inventory.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

As you are doing your analysis, write down your observations, take screenshots and give them descriptive names to make it easier to browse later. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. Studying your competitors’ technology stacks can shed light on their level of maturity as a digital marketing organization.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2021

From left, Matthew Iommi, CEO of Fetii, and Justin Rath, chief technology officer for Fetii. billion rideshare industry is only a decade old,” notes Fetii CEO Matthew Iommi, “and as with all industries, we’ll begin to see verticals arise that provide specialized rideshare solutions. Some big names have taken notice.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Treehouse, we’re trying to make technology education affordable and accessible to everyone on Earth, and doing that means that we’ll be working for a really long time and will likely always have more to do. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse. Find your niche.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. Are These Your Slides?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The way to both vertically and horizontally align an organization to engage in innovation with increased success rates is through Innovation Engineering — a reliable process, grounded in data, backed by academic theory and validated in real-world practice. The importance of technology ownership is significant.

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Where to Play

MARCH 14, 2018

Augury is bringing predictive maintenance technology to new markets. The technology combines two key shifts in the industry: artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. An initial technological investigation revealed that developing this technology would be challenging yet doable.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Much of the driving force still holding the economy primarily includes manufacturing, pharmaceutical, electronics, and petrochemicals to name a few. Neil Billock´s skills can be attested with the rapid growth of Vertical Direct Marketing Group where it became a forerunner in mainland US advertising industry.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

And with the 30-year statute of limitations now passed, stories about who I worked for (and the names of agencies.). I orignally wrote it with four goals in mind: First, to explain to my kids, then just graduating from High School, stories about their dad’s life when he was their age.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” With any new technology, adoption can be slow. Companies including Siemens, Maker, and Kakao have trusted Quantstamp to secure over $1.5

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