YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Launching your startup in a down economy doesn’t make it any less likely to last. Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2021

Also, it can open up numerous business models and revenue channels that were earlier inaccessible for want of a suitable hardware and software solution. The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT. In the process, it is creating Billions of revenue and cost-efficiency impact for several industries. .

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. 6- Datafication Photo Credit: Edward Mellett Datafication, in my perspective, is the transformation of everything in our lives into data-powered devices or software.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

But it’s not just large tech companies fighting for their share of cloud revenue – startups are entering the space quickly. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B Venture investors are realizing that generative artificial intelligence might not be enough to stem years long startup downturn.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Nothing is impossible.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? 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. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. Affinity by industry.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Startups that succeed with this approach tend to have founders with deep connections in the industry they serve, and often previously worked for one of the large incumbents in the market. While traditional software monopolies needed to be “all things to all people,” cloud start-ups can focus on one area and do it extremely well.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I’m excited about the rise of digital therapeutics: evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by high quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. . Full stack care/services, as coordinated via software, improves patient outcomes because patients get a network of support and accountability.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Their scale and resources enable them to innovate rapidly, making it challenging for startups to compete directly in this space. If startups do decide to compete on this ground floor, then they need to raise billions of dollars, most of which seems more like a Capex expense. Native GenAi companies should leverage that cost advantage.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. These startups are VERY difficult to start without having one or more key technical members on the founding team.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Who does it serve?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. And I’ve also been convinced that it can be quite useful to have another startup company CEO on your board. As You Start to Mature. And here’s the thing.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

An interesting new report by Dealroom and Flow Partners breaks down the massive investment that the “Magnificent Seven” (or M7 for short) are plowing into AI across verticals. Increasingly, vertical applied AI opportunities, and the LLM ops/ orchestration layer, seem to be the areas where that potential can be found.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Here are a few examples: 1. Look for acquired teams.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. It’s still early innings for LLMs – Microsoft and Google are still early in their rollouts of generative AI in search, productivity software, cloud and more. We’ve yet to exhaust the potential of smaller, vertical models. ?

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

The need for software and services to accommodate this group looks nothing like the bank accounts, benefits, and tax software we use today. With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Reducing Risk – Simulation versus Customer Development If you remember the first part of this discussion, startups face two types of risk; invention risk and/or customer/market risk. In either type of startup you want to put in place processes in place to reduce risk.

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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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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. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

script is one of the most ideal strategies incorporated for software builders as it is utilized with the motive of improving real-time applications. Other software development languages such as ASP.NET expect developers to have knowledge in other coding languages to create code on the server-side, be it VB.NET, Java, or C#.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Chainalysis is the clear market leader in their vertical and sits at the nexus between crypto exchanges, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement agencies. important pillars towards the inevitable maturation of the cryptocurrency space.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

The average public SaaS business took 6 years to go from $5M TTM revenue to over $100M (but worth noting that Concur, Ultimate Software and Vocus each took 11 years to do the same and ultimately became quite successful). Verticalization. Top performing SaaS businesses grow quite quickly.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Votem Founder and CEO Pete Martin is a successful serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of experience in the technology business and enterprise-software space, and author of the upcoming book, “ Sparking a Mobile Revolution: How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It. ” What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

Funds that raised to M&A struggling SaaS startups take advantage of the lack of fundraising that occurs and they execute on deals they set out to do. 10/ People and companies continue to invest in startups vs. firms and funds – they use platforms like Sydecar to invest without having to raise a traditional vehicles.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Computer Vision AI has typically needed vast quantities of well-annotated images to use as data to train the software. LexSet’s primary office is in the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the NewLab , an amazing startup ecosystem that provides lots of opportunities for pilots and collaborations. Which living person do you most admire and why?

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Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2024

When you’re early into a large wave, there’s so much more design space for a startup and founding team. Building a startup is hard enough as it is, but pioneering founders need to build on brand new technology, find new markets, and convince everyone of the market need.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Instead, we’re talking about building your startup to maximize its value based on factors the market values, since these factors will make it a better company to own in the both the short- and long-term. Nothing scalable (or fun) about that.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Funds that raised to M&A struggling SaaS startups take advantage of the lack of fundraising that occurs and they execute on deals they set out to do. 10/ People and companies continue to invest in startups vs. firms and funds – they use platforms like Sydecar to invest without having to raise a traditional vehicles.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Fast forward to 2013.

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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. If you want to release your software as open source, release the bit (or a bit) that doesn’t have intrinsic business value.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

While we continue to be excited about opportunities in SaaS startups, it is clear that the game has changed substantially since 2010. pick a vertical, say old archaic tech and SaaS-ify it?—?my This is all great news for startups. So what can a founder and investor do in this changing world? Go niche?—?pick

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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

We integrate directly with the practice software through a big deal with Qinec, which is very exciting because it means private GPs, physios, etc. 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. This is all in the cloud.

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