Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Understanding how your website performs on search engines is crucial to brand success. Knowing your search rank on the most popular search engine, claiming 93% of all organic search visits in the US, is extremely important.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

We’re fast and lean in our decision making and support companies beyond the money with our strong network in the media, entertainment and gaming space.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

For many companies, the base use case is to deploy an internal chatbot, powered by GPT-4 that can serve employees to search and engage with the company’s internal information (with the right level of access control and data management), without model hallucinations. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B so far in 2023.

Generative AI 78

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Give the user a taste of the power of your search results, with ZERO friction. Give the user a taste of the power of your search results, with ZERO friction.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

A vertical market is one in which all of your customers are in one particular industry, regardless of where in the food chain they are. For example, the site Noodle.org is a vertical search engine for the education industry. Uncategorized Google horizontal market vertical market'

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

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. The goal of the sprint was validating the demand in the “IT integrators” vertical in 5 European countries: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain and England.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Florida-based ProductionHUB is a search engine for media and entertainment serving film, television, video, live event and digital media production. Searching through pages of crew and production services on another site used to be incredibly time consuming.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

SEO 122

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Extend this list to not just people you know but people who you can reach or where your story would resonate if it’s a cold outreach (more on that below).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Marketing/advertising channels. Memorability.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

In addition, a look at Google Trends, shows that consumer search volume is also dropping for terms like ChatGPT, OpenAI, Generative AI, GPT, etc A recent survey of 2,000 Americans by TheVerge revealed that despite the media attention, fewer than 60% of Americans have heard or tried ChatGPT. Have we reached generative AI peak?

Generative AI 108

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

Google is the biggest search engine ad platform in the world. Dynamic Search Ads. With dynamic search ads, your ads are automatically customized based on the content of your site; you don’t even choose keywords for your campaign. Check out this article to learn when dynamic search ads may make sense. tour business).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Before you begin using tactics to hit your goals, tap into your analytics and search data. Which terms are people using to search for your products? Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. Mailchimp’s search ads increase the potential of its ad by using sitelinks.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

The search box. Of all the feedback the test participants gave, 94% was about design: Complex; Busy layout; Lack of navigation aids; Boring web design; Use of color; Pop-up adverts; Slow introductions to the site; Small print; Too much text; Corporate look and feel; Poor search capabilities. Users spent 6.48 The main navigation menu.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Which results show up?

SEO 126

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When customers use the Google search engine to look for items like clothing and shoes, popular products come up as the top results. Customers can now shop directly from the SERP (search engine results page). Pointy is a point-of-sale hardware and ecommerce app that ships product and sales data to Google in real-time.

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

If you need a line by line feature breakdown, a quick Google search will serve you best in that case. If a customer visits your website and searches for a product – may even add an item to their shopping cart – but doesn’t buy anything, you want that information when reaching out to them in the future. Tom Treanor.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

For example, Neeva, a startup that tried to push the boundaries of web search and challenge Google by being the first ‘AI-powered’ search engine, found the hard way that’s one thing building a product and quite another to get users to change their habits and switch search engines.

Generative AI 165

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Almost out of a joke, Convrrt was born after a quick search for a domain name and Facebook profiles. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9- Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. 6- The company's mission.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Future of Mobile Search Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Search on Mobile Devices. Since Google is obviously in the search business, they tried to make mobile search easier through their cross device native apps and streamlined browser experiences.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in the search results or doesn’t get clicked on – you know you’ve got work to do. Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This post details our process, the results, and the takeaways for businesses in this and similar verticals. Cluttered, noisy, distracting design: Too many adds, pop-ups are terrible, too much marketing while I was trying to search for something else. It was easy to search and check out. It was pretty hard to search around.

eCommerce 119

eCommerce Mobile Database Design 119

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. An example of LexSet training data.

Technical Review 63

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. For added peace of mind, go to Google Images and drag the photo into the search bar. You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame.

Stock 71

Stock Software Review Arizona Technical Review 71

David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

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. We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

OpenTable enables the consumer to search reservation availability across hundreds and hundreds of restaurants in a matter of seconds. They have overlaid this data with maps and search technology that provide remarkable richness to the home buyer.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Startup landscapes, while not perfect, are useful as they provide a way for us to define a space/category and the players of that vertical. Is it only one exciting vertical within the broader umbrella.

Vertical 113

Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Searching for a business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

It’s through this partnership with Qinec that Price hopes Zesty will be able to expand through “all the other verticals” and, as importantly, outside of London. Price says that within London alone there’s one million searches for dentistry-related services on Google.

Cloud 121

Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This rapid contraction will leave the space run by just a couple of “big guys,” some finely positioned vertical players and a long tail of “local guys,” finding ways to thrive by serving a few small regions or cities. Small businesses move to the cloud. 2012 begins the Year of the “Digital Coupon Book.”.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . They can also come in search results on search engines like Google, and they can be included as recommended content by discovery platforms. . They’re good for getting attention pretty easily, and they don’t use a lot of text. How Does Banner Advertising Work?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some five years into an early stage technology company, I found myself, an experienced technology manager, as a CEO in search of competent manufacturing. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Where is the innovation workforce? – Dr. Pamela A.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Engineer United States Government 102

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. Yahoo unveiled new enhancements on Tuesday , Microsoft launched refined Live Search last week , and Ask upgraded to its "3D" user interface back in June.

Search 100

Search San Jose SEO Engineer 100

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). We quickly did a search and found out that the .world 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).

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