Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

From March to August 2020, Melio saw payments volumes increase by 700% as US small businesses rushed to find a solution to pay their suppliers online. Now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes, Melio’s monthly active users (MAU) grew by more than 2,000% in 2020 as more US small businesses made the leap to digital payments.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x in Sept 2020.

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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.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Imagine VR/AR/MR systems that truly understand how users think and feel. One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Looxid Labs is working on that, serving VR companies in gaming, healthcare, commerce, and education. What’s your top goal for Looxid Labs in 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people. What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. An example of LexSet training data.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2020 People are rightfully concerned about the threat of coronavirus, which has so far killed about 2,800 people worldwide. What is your top goal for Milis Bio for 2020? What will be the most overhyped tech trend of 2020? The prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. 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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

You can find the previous editions from Q3-Q4 2022 , Q1-Q2 2022 , July 2021 , July 2020 and May 2019. Most operate in the application layer, and use APIs to power new automations and consumer experiences across various verticals and functions in the company: coding, copywriting, advertising and marketing, design, etc.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. Our trip around our sun is ending again and we are closing out the year. Bill Gates. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. Our trip around our sun is ending again and we are closing out the year. Bill Gates. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Facebook has reported a 70% increase in usage across all apps during the month of March 2020, proving that this is an optimal time to reach your target audience. Modify your ad strategy.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2024

Our current investment thesis, “backing mission-driven founders at the earliest stages,” was introduced back in 2020. We also recognize that a thesis is not static – much like product lifecycles – and as such, serves as a great timeline of how we’re evolving. For instance: AI – with a focus on AI-native products, e.g.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Lofty AI team includes (from left to right) Jerry Chu , Alysia Silberg , Mark Keane , and Max Ball The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 Lofty AI serves both full-time and part-time real estate investors by helping them make more data-driven decisions yielding higher returns. What is your top goal for Lofty AI for 2020?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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MARCH 22, 2021

One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). They seem to be everywhere, solving problems for people around the world. Marketplaces are also catching the eye of investors. They raised a whopping $2.4

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. EnPowered closed their initial seed round in February 2020 and have been developing their platform in stealth mode over the past year. EnPowered is led by Tomas van Stee and Mike Kirkup. To learn more, visit www.getenpowered.com or @GetEnPowered.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. According to the US Bureau of Labor the current requirement for the increase in engineering employment from 2010 to 2020 is 11% with aerospace engineering at 5%. And after all it was in my background. In 2010 it was 4%.(1)

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The US Census put out a statistic one day before we shared our study results that business applications for the third quarter of 2020 were 1,566,373, an increase of 77.4 percent compared to the second quarter of 2020. That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful. You might know your target customer better or they might have changed completely (just look at what happened in 2020).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. And as a result, they came out on top for growth in brand recognition in 2020: Image Source. Brand consideration. In short, their visibility skyrocketed. How to track your brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2024

What we're finding is that, and this is just a difference between 2020 and 2024, really over just three or four years. A statement like that, you go into a particular vertical and it stands on its head. Steve Oriola (11:41): I think some of the spreads in conversion rates in some of the verticals were significant.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

In reality, 2020 is turning out to be a mild period of softening likely followed by accelerated growth by year’s end. For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. D: Recession.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. PTA Portals.

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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. pic.twitter.com/on8RQtEeB9 — Zach Bussey (@zachbussey) August 18, 2020. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. What is your top goal for your startup for 2020?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 17, 2020 Skilllab has a clear mission: to develop technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate refugees into local labor markets. What is your top goal for Skilllab for 2020? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Up until 2020, Google Shopping was a paid platform for online retailers to advertise new products, akin to Google Ads. The best way to keep engaging with your customers (without acting overly salesy) is to create educational content relevant to your product vertical. Set your sights on Google’s Popular Products.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Deepblocks ’ leadership: CEO Olivia Ramos , CTO Jesus Cabrera , and COO Jeff Millett The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Is it possible to bring down the cost of optimizing housing to zero? That’s the goal of Deepblocks , one of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. What is your top goal for Deepblocks in 2020?

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 18, 2024

Climate/Energy: Moment Energy (2020) which is building energy storage systems by repurposing retired EV batteries; and EnergyBank (2021) which is designing long-term energy storage for the offshore wind market. In other words, it’s very likely that full vertical integration is the way to go!

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