deal architect

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I am looking forward to the Salesforce event next week, and expect to be spending time in the “Industries” Zone in the Dreamforce Campground. My FitBit is going to be pleased - the Campground is 40,000 square feet in size!

Vertical 221

Vertical Marketing 221

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. While bottom-up distribution is pretty common now in other verticals, it’s important to realize that bottom-up is rarely done in Ed Tech. The post Top Hat Raises $22.5M

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Vertical Technical Review Cofounder Sales Cycle 131

deal architect

JUNE 18, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Chris Knight, Global Industry Director for Construction and Engineering presenting on trends.

Engineer 374

Engineer Vertical Global Video 374

deal architect

JUNE 6, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Soma Somasundaram, Chief Technology Officer and President of Products at Infor.

Vertical 273

Vertical Video Technology Product 273

deal architect

AUGUST 7, 2019

I had a chance to talk to Larry Bridge, SVP Healthcare Strategy at Cognizant about the sector and how healthcare vertical solutions have evolved in his 30+ year career. Every industry is unique, but it would seem the healthcare vertical,

Vertical 170

Vertical 170

deal architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Achyut Jajoo · SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive presenting an update.

Vertical 273

Vertical Cloud Video Marketing 273

deal architect

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

I have been imploring software vendors to globalize and verticalize their applications for a while now - after two decades of cloud apps, less than 20% of the grid of applications across countries and operational processes is filled.

Vertical 207

Vertical Cloud Global Software 207

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. . What’s the End Game.

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

deal architect

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is David Fan, GM of the Salesforce Communications Cloud He discusses trends in.

Vertical 221

Vertical Cloud Video Marketing 221

deal architect

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Infor’s continued focus on micro-verticals and deploying them in the Amazon cloud is starting to pay off. In its quarterly earnings announcement it said “it has more than 25 million users of its cloud applications, and industry-specific certifications in healthcare, Industry Commentary'

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Vertical Cloud 304

Version One Ventures

MAY 20, 2020

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. B2B marketplaces will be particularly useful in heavily fragmented verticals where companies can source from a myriad of suppliers.

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B2B Vertical Aggregator B2C 213

deal architect

MAY 11, 2023

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Ulrike Kleifeld, VP Strategy, Global Public Services and Chris Atkins, VP Global.

Vertical 195

Vertical Global Video Technology 195

deal architect

APRIL 8, 2018

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

Vertical 186

Vertical Cloud Software 186

deal architect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Achyut Jajoo · SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive presenting on their.

Vertical 195

Vertical Video Marketing 195

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 169

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2024

What if you could draw that same-sized opportunity around a different set of criteria—not a vertical, but a theme that affects multiple verticals? There isn’t some secret $10 billion space in the market that only a small handful of investors is going to know about. Data wasn’t a sector.

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Vertical Differentiation Cofounder Deal Flow 97

deal architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I have long believed navigating SAP is like going on an Easter egg hunt. You know there are lots and lots goodies, but it takes effort to find them. That was reinforced when I wrote SAP Nation 3.0.

Vertical 221

Vertical Global Marketing 221

deal architect

JUNE 23, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Eran Agrios, SVP and GM of Financial Services at Salesforce. Vendors tend.

Vertical 221

Vertical Video Marketing 221

deal architect

JULY 16, 2021

While there is a lot of noise about "Industry Clouds", I have been encouraged to see specifics in the form of new product launches and M&A/ownership changes in the last few weeks. They promise to bring a lot more industry.

Vertical 150

Vertical Cloud Product Marketing 150

deal architect

MARCH 3, 2016

I predicted 2016 will be the year of verticals in the enterprise software space. We are off to a good start. This morning Jose Duarte, CEO of Unit4 updated us about the Higher Education acquisition they made a few months.

Vertical 150

Vertical Acquisition Software Marketing 150

deal architect

APRIL 8, 2018

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

Vertical 150

Vertical Cloud Software 150

deal architect

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Christopher Dean, GM and SVP, Communications and Media for Salesforce. He provides.

Vertical 195

Vertical Media Video Marketing 195

deal architect

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Tom Peff in Product Marketing kicked.

Vertical 273

Vertical Analytics Video Marketing 273

deal architect

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Readers know I have been hounding software vendors on why they are not investing in vertical functionality. After two decades of cloud computing we have very few choices in books of record for industry after industry – utility billing, retail.

Vertical 170

Vertical Software Cloud Marketing 170

deal architect

MAY 23, 2016

I wrote in January I expect this to be the year of the vertical for cloud applications. There are too many horizonatal cloud apps in accounting, hr and crm, not enough in industry specific functionality. Every event I have gone.

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Vertical Cloud Marketing 236

deal architect

JULY 20, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This is part 2 of the conversation with Maggie Slovic and Andy Burton, Global Directors for.

Vertical 195

Vertical Global Video Conversion 195

deal architect

JULY 19, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Maggie Slovic and Andy Burton, Global Directors for Process and Discrete Manufacturing,

Vertical 195

Vertical Global Video Marketing 195

deal architect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Nasi Jazayeri, EVP and GM, Public Sector at Salesforce. He summarizes the.

Vertical 195

Vertical Video 195

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Vertical SaaS. We have been long-term investors in vertical SaaS companies like Jobber (home services), Clio (legal) and Zenput (C-stores and restaurants). The other opportunity in vertical SaaS might be around the Shopify ecosystem.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Vertical Software Review Portfolio 195

deal architect

JULY 21, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Amit Khanna, SVP and GM, Health and Life Sciences at Salesforce.

Vertical 195

Vertical Video Global Marketing 195

deal architect

DECEMBER 22, 2021

When my daughter, Rita was younger, she was a chess fanatic and good enough to be ranked number 1 among Florida girls. She wrote a column about chess and technology for me 12 years ago here. I take no credit.

Vertical 170

Vertical Florida Technology Software 170

deal architect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. For all the noise around Generative AI, I have not seen many use cases which would.

Vertical 170

Vertical Generative AI Video 170

VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

While web search requires huge resources, I believe that smaller LLMs and open source technology will play a big role in creating specialised vertical search engines for topics like health, legal tech, travel, education, etc and there lies the opportunity for startups.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

deal architect

MARCH 4, 2013

In the late 90s, Gartner used to grade outsourcers on a poster with scores for verticals, horizontals, geographies. Couple of those years, I was on the team which graded the offerings. A provider gave us the same reference client for.

Vertical 230

Vertical Software Marketing 230

deal architect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Yesterday, Tom Peff in Product Marketing.

Vertical 195

Vertical Analytics Video Marketing 195

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. I also recommend Erik Torenberg’s podcast ‘ Requests for Startups ‘ for in-depth deep dives on various verticals.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2024

These systems come in various types, such as carousels, vertical lift modules, and mini-load systems, each tailored to meet specific warehouse requirements. These systems enable the efficient utilization of vertical space, facilitating easier storage and retrieval of goods.

Vertical 115

Vertical Operations Technical Review Mobile 115