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Burning Platform: Workday Rising – Healthcare Panel

deal architect

We recorded this 109th episode of Burning Platform at the Workday Rising event in San Francisco. We hosted Yolanda Redmond, VP Supply Chain, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Keith Lohkamp, Senior Director, Industry Strategy at Workday. VUMC in Nashville,

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded.

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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). When Uber started out, they focussed solely on hailing black cabs in San Francisco. For example, Airbnb offers all kinds of accommodation, and StockX offers authentic goods. But they didn’t all start off that way. London) and category (e.g.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, When we first moved to San Francisco, they helped us find office space, introduced us to investors and worked with us on architecting a successful Series A.” San Francisco, CA.

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Announcing Our Investment in Paintzen

Rob Go

They have gotten off to a torrid start in New York, and just announced their launch of San Francisco today. Insanely deep understanding of their vertical, as well as deep understanding of service marketplaces generally (the Mike and Justin previously co-founded MyClean in NYC as well, which is growing at a great clip).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Q1 Round-up: Portfolio companies in the news

Version One Ventures

In February, Talentbuddy was acquired by Udemy , an online learning and teaching marketplace headquartered in San Francisco. 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.