YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Is there other software that does this? It means taking user data and pushing out actionable insights. Customer intimacy.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2014

When we started Second Life, I had many debates with venture capitalists as to whether “user generated content” was really of value. A software developer can use a company such as Layer to easily add communications technology to a mobile app. Today that question has been answered.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Likewise, Microsoft (which applied for about twice the H-1B visas it received for 2015) opened a Vancouver office where they’ll hire and train about 400 software developers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

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. If you’re not a software developer, maybe if you’re a designer, you’re going to also likely gravitate towards your skills. Back to Podcast.

Vertical 45

Vertical Java Software Developers Software Development 45

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit.

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Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 86

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. NFC tags can be embedded into posters or point-of-sale (POS) displays to activate when a user gets within 3-5cm.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

David Skok, who is a must read for all startups , explains that as a SaaS company grows, the size of the subscribers/customers/users who no longer do business with the company will also, organically, grow. Despite a steady stream of new users, SaaS startup Groove’s 4.5% While users who remained customers logged in 4.4

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

The Ten Commandments Of User Experience – [link]. “These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. “Print designers are going to have to face up to reality and learn how to design for real users&# – [link]. Writer 2.0

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

The Ten Commandments Of User Experience – [link]. “These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. “Print designers are going to have to face up to reality and learn how to design for real users&# – [link]. Writer 2.0

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Sales model A sales model answers the basic questions involved in selling your product: “Is this a revenue play or a freemium model going for users? have product/market fit,) then you invest the dollars to create end user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. Something else? Who’s the customer?

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Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 259

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Consumer Reports: Half of Social Network Users are “Oversharing&# – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For example, if a client says a challenge of theirs is “converting more users who visit product pages,” ask them what they currently do, what’s worked, and what hasn’t. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Why would someone pay $299 per user when there’s a perfectly suitable alternative available for free?! And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. 299/user for Vault vs. $0/user for Subversion? This lasted for about three months.

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 126

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software. Greatest Hits.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. He even added retail stores.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41