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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? It’s time to build!

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30).

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Here are a few of the directories aggregating the emerging tools for creators: On the platform side, in the past, a few large platforms like Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok were the core distribution mechanism for creators. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A 1) Industry reports.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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Liquidity Hacking - How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace

A Crowded Space

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? Curate one side.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Chewse: marketplace for groups to easily order great food.

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