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. – Reputation. This model certainly makes sense.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

For example, “flying taxi” startup Joby Aviation aligned its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with the Air Force’s stated interest in advancing the market for air mobility vehicles. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical. The Case for Optimism.

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Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 337

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers. For example, Airbnb offers all kinds of accommodation, and StockX offers authentic goods. But they didn’t all start off that way.

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Software Review San Francisco Valuation Stock 100

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. There are several different structures a business can adopt in order to create efficient and well-received management practices.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

Balance the risks to your reputation. When entering any deal you are putting your personal and corporate reputation on the line. Take into consideration what the impact of doing the deal will do to your brand. White Label. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup'

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Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence 164

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

Effective preparation will go a long way in helping you position your business as a service provider focused on security, gain your customers’ confidence and help them avoid the reputational damage of a cybersecurity breach. [1] 1] BitSight Technologies: Assessing the Security Performance of the Retail Industry.

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Security Small Business Technical Review Vertical 100

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. Brand marketing is also critical to building a lasting, memory-building reputation. Slack’s experience isn’t a phenomenon.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

One major goal for 2019 is to continue to improve my company’s reputation. We have established that reputation through hard work, excellent results and transparency in how we work with our clients and our staff. #10- Improve the perception of my company as an authority. Photo Credit: Dan Goldstein. 11- Two goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

As with most of life, it’s more about whom you choose to work with, what their reputation is from others and how well you’ve vetted them more than an absolute need for control. I know there are bad investors who do bad things. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It works by getting your site links featured on reputable publications or in influencer content that is typically hard to obtain. And those links can have a powerful impact on your industry reputation and web traffic. If you’re new to programmatic marketing, start by partnering with a reputable agency.

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

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. Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Some built reputation, some made money, some got sold to Apple and some, even turned into giant global businesses in their own right. Not only are they bigger, they change the world faster, as represented by the increasing vertical leaps in each block. A moment in time Untold billions have been made on the back of the smartphone.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Vertical Social Media 62

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

Entrepreneur 234

Entrepreneur Vertical Reputation Valuation 234

David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, I can tell you that I checked this person out and they are completely legitimate and have a strong reputation in their own community. It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. a hint about which accelerator it was]).

Cofounder 134

Cofounder Technical Review Vertical Programming 134

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Forgotten about selected vertical markets within the niche? We look for the underserved niches, avoid the direct encounter until dominating at least one of those niches, and use the profits and reputation from that small victory to take on ever–larger niches once dominated by the gorilla. Been skewered for slow customer service?

Non-Compete 62

Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition Reputation 62

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Bottlenecking usually occurs on vertical scaled configuration when the load increases. The increasing CPU memory and RAM improve the site speed and its performance.

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Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

Startup 236

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 236

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2018

They buy on reputation, relationships and referral. Potential clients might know you, know you are active in a vertical and have a problem they need to solve, but they need to have a belief that you can do the work effectively. For professional services business development, reputation is the Holy Grail. Trust — Do I trust you?

Developer 149

Developer Elevator Pitch Reputation Vertical 149

Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

The analytics pieces are much more complicated because they attempt to analyze social graphs to derive authority and reputation, with the ultimate goal of identifying fans, friends and followers who are acting as unpaid promoters of your products and services. Reputation is what other people think about me (my authority).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Bay of Fires Tasmania.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

Startup 230

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 230

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

If they visit for your upmarket reputation, the advert can read, “ Impress your boss or date tonight with the luxurious spread at Seven Seas.” Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. Create discount offers to get your event customers to visit the restaurant.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review SBA Merger Customer 86

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Having a reputation as being a low-cost provider can be in and of itself effective marketing – if that reputation is strong enough and your selection is wide enough, at least in retail-oriented industries, customers may consistently buy from you even if you’re not ALWAYS the low-cost provider. My mind first went to retail.

B2B 74

B2B B2C Vertical Reputation 74

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This is a classic example of Goodwill: Trello’s accounting statement doesn’t justify their $425 million acquisition, but its strong user community and reputation does. If you do the math, Atlassian paid about $20 for each free user they acquired. To create Alpha, you need a market edge.

Founder 118

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 118

Transformify

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This could show how reputable and professional the business is. In addition to indicating whether a relationship is direct or indirect, solid or dotted, vertical or horizontal, etc., In the long run, this can help you be ready for changes and obstacles in the market or industry.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

It might be worth taking a similar approach with your clients—particularly those who have developed reputations for being a little more hesitant to promptly settle their invoices. Devise new campaigns to boost sales. If sales are stagnating—or even if they’re not—from time to time, you might want to consider retooling your campaigns.

Management 60

Management Technical Review Software Review .Net 60

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

We’ve written about the rise of the vertical reputation graph and how the enterprise is still a nascent area for collaboration. We don’t need more visual tools. We need help managing our work and how design relates to the rest of the organization.”. Why we’re excited about Abstract.

Design 60

Design Cofounder IP Vertical 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend.

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 126

Hunter Walker

APRIL 24, 2017

Four years into Homebrew , we’re fortunate to feel really good about our relationships and reputations — you live and die by those in our business. These are some of the verticals that our portfolio suggests we have interest and a POV. When we do “miss” an opportunity there are two main causes: 1.

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Cap Table LP Seed Stage Vertical 71

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

But Homebrew is founded upon the belief that we’ll put sweat and reputation behind your startup, not just a wire transfer, so to me it seems like a normal question to help understand if you need things that we can, or can’t, provide. The answers I receive typically fall across four categories: 1.

Cap Table 81

Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jolly (Austin, TX) Shelby Stephens, CEO Jolly is a professional social network for the gig economy, where freelancers and businesses connect to grow their networks, work together freely and build their reputations. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Having a reputation as being a low-cost provider can be in and of itself effective marketing – if that reputation is strong enough and your selection is wide enough, at least in retail-oriented industries, customers may consistently buy from you even if you’re not ALWAYS the low-cost provider. My mind first went to retail.

B2B 48

B2B B2C Vertical Reputation 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Thierry Stern, current owner of Patek Philippe I admire his courage to challenge the status quo when Patek is at the top of high horology [the art of making clocks and watches], both in terms of reputation and financial weal. It’s easier to change when you are in a slump, but it takes more when you are on the top.

San Jose 75

San Jose Cofounder API Silicon Valley 75

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Grow your reputation. This can be an excellent opportunity to grow awareness and a positive reputation for your business. Sure, you want to reach new customers, grow your reputation, and increase revenue, but how are you going to do it? As said before, partnerships can improve or damage your reputation.

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Small Business Reputation Partner Revenue 153

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical.

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Often these funds are attempting to build out a reputation or gain exposure to a new vertical. By “outliers” I mean companies they perceive as having the potential to scale very quickly in a success case. For example, let’s say that a fund isn’t especially well-known for their consumer investments.

Later Stage 95

Later Stage Valuation Semantic Institutional Investors 95

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Forgotten about selected vertical markets within the niche? We look for the under-served niches, avoid the direct encounter until dominating at least one of those niches, and use the profits and reputation from that small victory to take on ever–larger niches once dominated by the gorilla. Been skewered for slow customer service?

Non-Compete 48

Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition Reputation 48