YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Most dev shops are good at one technology over another, or focus on UX or even a vertical like healthcare. Contact references. All dev shops should be able to give you references to previous customers who were happy with their work. Most have an emphasis.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

And when we say ‘niche’ we’re not referring to things like iGaming verticals. What’s more, they’ll also have to contend with their white-label underlings of which there are thousands. Many wannabe operators try to get around these challenges by focusing on specific gambling niches.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). References: * [link] ** [link] [link] Originally published on Marketplace Design Blog by Fiona MacDougall Why do marketplaces make great businesses? For example, Airbnb offers all kinds of accommodation, and StockX offers authentic goods. London) and category (e.g.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here are some things to read: There’s No Money in Free Software [ Ben Werdmuller ] – The provocative titles refers to Ben’s experience trying to build a startup around an open source product. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

“I think there’s still many opportunities in this vertical in South East Asia and it’s one that takes on multiple forms – local shopping, local eating, local jobs,” muses Yongfook. Instead he’s looking to launch a series of products focused on the idea of “local”, yet with a regional focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By bringing in an industry player with startup DNA we brought somebody that could push the team much harder on how their value prop would resonate (or not) with customers, which verticals to target our offering to and importantly what others solutions were in the market and how we stacked up.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. That could be a market vertical, or that could be an audience. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists. Dentists would be market vertical.

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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. Moreover, I wanted to have some practical references as I have started my career as a heavy equipment mechanic. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9-

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 25, 2019

Consumer tech works best when it’s completely horizontal or deeply vertical. Multi-vertical out of the gate usually fails. Once you nail the first vertical, you can expand to others. As a friend put it, “people want oranges and people want lemons, but nobody wants a citrus.” — Naval (@naval) March 25, 2019.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

It claims to be the world’s first commercially approved geo-fenced (limited by a virtual perimeter) and day-parted (day-parting refers to splitting the day into parts to show content most appropriate for each time, and therefore audience) digital advertising service on LED screens mounted on the rooftops on London black taxis.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). When I refer to “yesterday” below, I literally mean Dec.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

We welcomed two new companies to our portfolio in Q1; both will be announced at a later date but fall into the themes we have been exciting about: AI/ML/bots and vertical social networks. And, Mattermark closed its Series B round , with $7.3 million from Foundry Group and Jon Hallet, with participation from existing investors.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The referred customer also gets 20% off their first order. The best way to keep engaging with your customers (without acting overly salesy) is to create educational content relevant to your product vertical. Otherwise, you’ll struggle to convince anyone to take action. Take Athleta , a women’s yoga clothing line.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful. Market positioning refers to your brand or product’s ability to influence buyer perception relative to your competitors.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

My business and technology experience is deep in software, where even the hardware companies we are investors in (Fitbit, Sphero, Makerbot, Glowforge, littleBits, and some others) are what we like to refer to as “software wrapped in plastic.” And I especially don’t know vertical markets.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

It offers custom reports, real-time updates, specific filtering, and easy organization of start-ups based on stage, vertical, geography, and Mattermark score (a proprietary index that measures momentum). The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

2- We began referring the property owners. We heard this so often that we began referring to these property owners as “Weekenders.” We talked about how moving the ball side to side was good for control, but to achieve that yearning score, we needed to move the ball vertically down the field. Photo Credit: Garrett Ham.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans. So you've got more variety of content.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

See the nice circular reference? :). Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements. YOU matter if you have a business impact. Oh, and don’t get me started on time!

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- So be careful with your hiring, take a lot more time, look at a lot more candidates, check a lot more references and don’t just make a hire out of desperation. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world.

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SVPG

JANUARY 26, 2014

In earlier articles I’ve discussed various aspects of Minimum Viable Product (which I like to refer to as MVP Tests to avoid any confusion with an actual product). For B2B companies, I usually favor a product strategy where we tackle one vertical market at a time. Manufacturing, Financial Services, Automotive, Telco, etc.).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2017

Go Vertical. If you need more room, you can often achieve that by going vertical. Create paper and electronic files for this repeated project — with matching names — so you can refer back to them. It also allows you to unpack frequently used items so you can grab and go. It may seem as though you always need more space.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- So be careful with your hiring, take a lot more time, look at a lot more candidates, check a lot more references and don’t just make a hire out of desperation. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world. and many others.

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Small Business Force

JUNE 18, 2017

Whether that’s through work ethic (references will tell you about that) or personality that makes people gravitate to them, hire to help the company and the culture grow. Or, attend a trade seminar or workshop to learn what’s happening in your vertical market. They should add to the culture you’re trying to build.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The San Diego-based startup has developed vertically integrated system that produces a plant-based protein ingredient that can replace egg whites, whey and casein in food and beverage applications. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13-17.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

On Day 2, you’ll zero in on the prospects who inhabit your personal network and are most likely to purchase, or at least refer you to someone who will. Which of your client verticals are your champions? In which verticals do you experience smooth, seamless sales processes, instead of arduous uphill battles? just “ACME”.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

This is a subheading for your ad, separated from the first title by a vertical bar. With location extensions, you can add the physical location of your business for easy reference (instead of forcing potential customers to click your ad just to find your address). People usually notice your title first to decide if your ad is relevant.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

The false bottom is also often referred to as a logical end and the illusion of completeness. Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. In fact, they’re no longer only relevant vertical, either.

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SVPG

AUGUST 30, 2013

I''m talking about the power of a happy, reference customer. First, let''s be clear what it means to be a reference customer. There are three main contexts when it comes to reference customers: products for businesses, consumers, and developers (building applications using your product''s API''s).

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line. Capitalism can be the greatest force for good (an intentional reference to conscious capitalism , a movement and organization that I love ). I qualify “sell” with “easily” because we needed to give some leeway to the sales team in case it was a “strategic account”?—?one

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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. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical. in reference to a slow roll-out at a hospital]. Life, Anthony.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

“Creators don’t want to just refer traffic towards random products to make money, but rather prefer to directly sell products which they truly believe in. Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Company: Influencer Direct. Founder: Dennis Chim.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

That context can help sites rank in a vertical like recipes, where search engines can’t differentiate a good chocolate chip cookie from a life-changing one. As Kevin Indig notes , longer queries tend to be less ambiguous. We all endure recipe sites that require a lengthy scroll to get to the recipe.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. Successful and failed experiments.

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