Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

#14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority. Vertical videos let potential customers Know, Like, and Trust brands faster, which can increase their reach.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 121

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Interestingly, many different models have worked, but in all cases the criteria by which the General Partner is selected says a lot about what you should expect as an entrepreneur from the firm.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

The flipside, of course, is that the more transparent and direct you are with your employees, the more they’ll trust you to tell them the truth (even when it’s tough), the more reassured they’ll feel that you are actively monitoring the situation, and the more empowered they’ll be to partner with you on the solution.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. This is why our firm is quite multi-disciplinary, and why my Partners and I often lead investments in overlapping areas. AI Picks and Shovels.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

As Index Ventures Partner Mark Goldberg put it in a WSJ article : “there is a shallow trough of disillusionment” Startups that enjoyed the buzz are now realising that they also need to become good businesses, not just cool technology, to survive. But not all is rosy.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. For example, Coinbase raised its Series E this quarter. Bio/healthcare. We wouldn’t be here without your encouragement and support.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. 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.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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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. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10-

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The rise of the vertical incubator focused on bringing together a set of startups aligned around a particular technology or industry. But for most investors time is even more precious than capital, so the reality is I can only focus on a handful of incubators, and in many cases, vertical beats horizontal.'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Mentorship.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” c) You never believed in the first place, and are blaming your partners versus just passing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must maintain a relevant laser focus. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. Timeline of Generative AI for video progress in 2023 A16Z partner Justine Moore posted an excellent X thread on the advances of generative AI for video right before the end of the year.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice. Check it out! .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

As a firm, we have had a thesis around the unbundling healthcare to create best-in-class, vertical healthcare solutions for the world’s biggest problems. As they were conceiving of this business based on Mike’s own experience with medical treatment for managing alcohol, we were captivated by the opportunity to partner with them again.

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deal architect

JANUARY 19, 2024

ai and Oracle and as an investor at Wildcat Venture Partners. For the 110th episode of Burning Platform we host Bruce Cleveland of ForzaGroup Consulting. You may remember Bruce from his influential roles at Siebel, C3.ai You know I am constantly.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. He or she is a partner with complementary experiences and an ability to convey advice in a collegial manner.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Product marketing can partner with marketers to: Find channels; Decide on content ; Refine messaging; and, Remove friction to signing up and booking demo calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. 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.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice. Check it out! .

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Seed Stage Portfolio Curation Vertical 194

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. . 11- Two goals.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch).

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am working to develop deeper relationships with LitLife’s school and district partners to ensure that our literacy consulting work is as effective as possible. By highlighting work that is going well with partners, we can also cast a light on the amazing work happening in each of our sites! 7- New ideas and partners.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm. The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier is being released this week. click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page).

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Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2011

ethosIQ, a Houston-based software solutions provider, plans to leverage Unwired Nation’s Kinita platform and services to address huge opportunities for mobile applications in a number of enterprise verticals, including field service organizations, financial service companies and utilities.

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Houston Vertical Mobile Marketing 67

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. You will quickly see how crowded the space really is, how big a pain point you are solving and who potential partners are. – PEOPLE. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

My answers are actually bland, largely because I had a pretty good handle on what the initial 12 months would bring and a great partner in Satya Patel. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. While not perfect, these experiences helped tune my radar before Homebrew invested Dollar One. Chasing Hot Markets.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Seth Rosenberg, Greylock Christoph Janz , co-founder and managing partner of Point Nine Ventures, pointed to t he potential of Generative AI to accelerate the adoption of vertical SaaS. Index Ventures also pointed out the potential of generative AI to disrupt vertical SaaS.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The best way to keep engaging with your customers (without acting overly salesy) is to create educational content relevant to your product vertical. Take this post from Airbnb , which shouts out one of their accommodation partners. It is literally the foundation to all of growth and that’s really why retention is the king.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129