2014 Differentiation Vertical 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.
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Austin Startup
APRIL 25, 2017
It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
The opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is a great opportunity to think about competition, performance, and creativity. Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. Same with Slopestyle. Audaciousness.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
To date, there have been only four major European SaaS exits (all IPOs), including QlikTech in 2010, Wix in 2013, Zendesk in 2014 and Mimecast in 2015. Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US. Vertical solutions are typically a sign of a more mature ecosystem.
Austin Startup
JULY 5, 2017
Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that technology to its competitors ! In 2014, Tesla promised that it wouldn’t sue anyone who violated its patents. This is all in the interest of driving scale.
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