ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Leveraging network effects. Is there other software that does this?

Japan 100

Japan Global Asia API 100

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Key Takeaways Corey Quinn underscores the significance of vertical market specialization in transitioning from founder-led sales to scalable growth for agencies. This is John Jantsch.

Vertical 68

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The foundation of your process is an exhaustive list of all the people both in your network and outside it that might have an interest in what you’re building. The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Long Range Wide Access Network (LoRaWAN) technology, more frequently known as “LoRa.” Sapient will be using LoRa (or similar technologies) to expand to three more countries in 2020 because it allows us to remove the need to use customer WiFi networks to connect our devices in a seamless and inexpensive way.

Philadelphia 62

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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 159

Vertical Architecture Security Distribution 159

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. The whole platform works because everyone in our network is heavily screened; they’re all experts. Focus on what to focus on.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Cofounder 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2023

The historical dynamic for software markets was one of ‘winner take all/most.’ ’ Economies of scale, network effects, soft monopolies/bundling, patent moats: there are many reasons why.

Vertical 85

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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. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Now most recently they have embarked on billion-dollar program to build a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. And after all it was in my background. But it wasn’t an Atlas rocket either.

Technical Review 102

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

And, Outreach , a sales automation tool for SMB and enterprise organizations, was recognized as the top-ranked sales automation/acceleration software by Ambition Sales. . Earlier this year, we published a more focused investment thesis : we like to invest in businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

All the platforms use the current software versions with up-to-date security measures and enhanced protection capabilities. 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 121

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 121

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Uber, the system has “perfect” information in an industry where just two years ago there was a complete lack of visibility (on both sides of the network) that led to enormous waste of resources. oDesk’s presence increases the number of first time software outsourcers. Network Effects. Network effects are rare but golden.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. The unit itself is essentially a mini portable Wi-Fi-based broadcasting station and software development platform, WiCastr said.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Yeah, Mike Lenox (18:48): Yeah.

ChatGPT 69

ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Technology 69

Version One Ventures

APRIL 14, 2014

These markets are driven by network effects and only one company will win in the space. Examples of these winners include eBay (auctions), LinkedIn (professional networking), and YouTube (video). As a result, the tool can grab a large market share in a certain market segment or vertical. Winner takes all. Multiple winners.

Operations 140

Operations Marketing Vertical Networking 140

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

I don’t source financing on their behalf, they generally have the reputations and the personal networks to attract capital if I just get it structured fairly. I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. Impact First, Business Models Second.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

TSM: Describe Taxfyle’s product or service in 10 words or less: Richard: Taxfyle is a Service-with-a-Software company that matches taxpayers with licensed CPAs and Enrolled Agents. We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e.

CPA 138

CPA Founder Vertical Cofounder 138

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line. After all, we were selling a Software as a Service platform and with it came a guarantee of success with our software through the services we coupled with it.

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. It is important to get outside your comfort zone and expand your network to stay relevant and energized. In 2019 I’ll continue to shift from time for money income sources to becoming fully location independent. 6- Diversity.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Germany Leadership Partner 69

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. Like with most VCs, our inbound leads come from our network. Image via CrunchBase. Today, the boom of information (i.e. Why we’re excited.

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Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. Inworld AI (image credit: Techcrunch ).

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IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Before the SaaS explosion, software and data were only “on premise.” Smart SaaS products can automate processes and take care of all the things that we don’t want to do, while also having the potential to be intelligent in the future and create interesting data network effects along the way. . For example….

Artificial Inteligence 94

Artificial Inteligence Vertical API Bootstrapping 94

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Janstch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals.

Sales 92

Sales Technical Review Minnesota Conversion 92

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

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 13, 2013

A few months ago we started spending more time on the healthcare vertical and got extremely excited about the amount of innovation that we were seeing. Yesterday we published a guest post on VentureBeat outlining our investment thesis for the health care vertical.

Vertical 135

Vertical Artificial Inteligence Analytics Security 135

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

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. Apple doesn’t really make money by selling software or even digital content, but they seamlessly integrate software and content to support a high margin hardware business.

Hungary 168

Hungary Dividend Vertical Preferred Stock 168

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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 ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 24, 2018

We are excited to have invested in one network, Figure 1 , which appears to have found the rare seam where a network can flourish with minimal permission and no system-level integrations.”. We have realized that in most cases, bottoms-up distribution or the “consumerization” of software in healthcare has its limits.

Vertical 97

Vertical Networking Distribution Cost 97

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Network Effects as related to big data. When the problem space is complex you arrive at solutions fastest through a mix of software and people engineering. Palantir has been able to repeatedly pair it’s core analytics platform with human investigators who unlock business value across a variety of vertical domains.

Cofounder 167

Cofounder Vertical Algorithm Government 167

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To reach your competitors’ customers, use your network: Who do you know? What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. BuiltWith lets you take a peek under the hood of your competitors’ websites and find out exactly what software they use. Who do they know? reviews, trust).

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services. Athenahealth's Culture.

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

November 2013 – InstaElite launches first-ever influencer affiliate network for Instagram. The largest ad agencies and brands are going to acquire influencer software companies and managed services, and the majority of other players will amalgamate or go out of business trying to compete. Have any success stories to share?

Software 49

Software Marketing Entrepreneur North America 49