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The many shades of verticalization

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Vinnie Vertical is wary of the term “industry clouds”. I liked the self-checking for stores AI solution Google presented to analysts this past week in prep for NRF, the big retail show in New York. However, too often there is.

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Microsoft Retail vertical - it's like navigating an unfamiliar retail store

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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft kicked off NRF 2020 Vision, the annual retail industry mega event in New York yesterday. He had some great sound bites "There’s death, there’s taxes and there’s ever-increasing online advertising spend. There’s not much we.

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The Year of the Vertical

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I woke up this morning to press releases from NetSuite and Infor from the annual National Retail Federation show in New York, announcing new retail customers and investments. It is a rapidly changing industry with omni-channel options, mobile pays and.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

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. As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources. Affinity by industry.

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Meet Chainalysis, the startup that brought down the biggest dark web marketplace

Cracking the Code

Chainalysis is the clear market leader in their vertical and sits at the nexus between crypto exchanges, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement agencies. important pillars towards the inevitable maturation of the cryptocurrency space.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. There’s the Alfred P.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Probably not, according to Matthew Brown , a consultant who previously managed SEO for The New York Times : You’d have to get really aggressive with metering to see a significant negative ranking impact. The New York Times ) can be undone simply by disabling JavaScript. Where are you starting from?

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