VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. The key global trends that are currently shaping the metaverse, blockchain gaming, and NFT space (Source: Newzoo). It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

This one comes directly from a conversation I had with my father-in-law (a true scientist – professor – and more) about how global warming will continue, but this will be the first time people notice – due to the % of oxygen change. -1: Game mechanics within communities will be fascinating to watch.5: 1: Failed it.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This one comes directly from a conversation I had with my father-in-law (a true scientist – professor – and more) about how global warming will continue, but this will be the first time people notice – due to the % of oxygen change. -1: Game mechanics within communities will be fascinating to watch.5: 1: Failed it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. million employees on the platform. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Nobody has figured this out better than AwesomenessTV who not only has built an enormous online media presence but also packages and distributes shows for Nickelodeon.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Earth remote sensing (ERS) data has become a critical source when solving practical problems of local and global level, monitoring natural and man-made objects and phenomena, increasing efficiency in many areas of human activity , especially agriculture, transport, fuel and energy complex, construction, environment management, etc.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand consideration.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

These are but some of the global startups who are gunning to transform an industry that is, quite frankly, in desperate need of a shake-up. It simply would not work on a global scale. Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment.

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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. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies. Let’s start with Facebook.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. For a flooring company I worked with, that white whale was Hilton Hotels: one company in charge of flooring purchases for 14 global brands across 5,000 locations.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. If there is a resolution to this issue it will need to be simplified and philosophical with a pan global, United Nations style approach. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Jenn is a social media consultant, speaker, and globally recognized Instagram expert. She is a social media consultant, speaker, and globally recognized Instagram expert. TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Marketing Podcast with Jenn Herman. So you've got more variety of content.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

And that’s to say nothing of consumer-friendly features offered by some of the newer entrants, such as overdraft protection. Source: S&P Global So why the large gap in feature sets? But the resulting shift is correcting long-standing issues in small business lending around distribution and risk selection.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. Use content advertising to fight rising costs. The concept of content advertising is a relatively new one.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. A few years ago Jonah acquired Ze Frank’s video production company and the two of them have really built an enormous video production & distribution business.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Just like revenues are the right metric for businesses that aim to sell products directly, one can probably deduce a global metric for other types of businesses.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Winding Tree drives the development of open source protocols for the travel industry, starting with ORG.ID, a global registry of business entities that streamlines access to APIs in an automated and secure way without the need for third parties.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

We had a chance to chat with Nicolas Franchet, Facebook ‘s Head of Retail & e-Commerce on its Global Vertical Marketing team, as well as Maz Sharafi, Head of Local Advertising Sales and Partnerships, on how small business owners, especially retailers, build an effective online strategy for Facebook.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Governor of Colorado was there promoting Colorado as a hub for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. It’s estimated that 20 to 25 percent of funds are lost to corruption globally at the government level, so this is a really important issue. ETHDenver , which took place Feb.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Retailers are cutting their lunch through some classic backwards vertical integration – that is, making the products their suppliers make. So my question is this, why aren’t the global fast moving consumer goods companies taking on the retailers at their own game? What they should do is simple.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

Innovate radically to invent new ways to distribute consumer goods. Brands that have a share of voice in the new media landscape will be ready to participate in emerging distribution channels when they arrive. To the boring area of distribution – the area that has been ignored for the past 20 years… Who they sell to.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. E-commerce is the canary in the coal mine.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. the Untouched Vertical.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Data on its own is meaningless, and can create more challenges than benefits, unless it can be quickly be parsed, analyzed and distributed to relevant entities.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Enterprises that have gotten past this reflexive response are struggling with how to integrate all of this new, distributed stuff with their existing stuff. Think of it as a compute supply chain, with the CIO managing the vertical integration of this chain. And it’s this chaotic struggle that holds back innovation and growth.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

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