Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. The days where Israel was known only for its cybersecurity entrepreneurs is behind us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

They can make smart investments even if the entrepreneurs are not well credentialed or have a product/idea that is outside the mainstream of what investors are expecting As this change has rippled up the venture industry, it has meant a lot more worthy companies are getting funded than just a few years ago. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) Nothing makes me happier then to see my students getting great grades (and as they can tell you I make them very work hard for them.)

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

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 There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 3) OnePagers.io. 9) Quora.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 3) Originate investments.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. It’s free.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. the Untouched Vertical.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Entrepreneur -“Well no but my product is much better than their product and I have this great idea….” Do you know how they create demand?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

And many entrepreneurs thought at that time that they could offer products and services to offline bookstores to compete against Amazon’s growing power. Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories. Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Asia Entrepreneur India Insider 500 Startups 500 startups accelerator 500 startups dave mcclure News shit 500 founders say shit founders say Fake it before you make it.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Business owners and entrepreneurs are flocking to a variety of platforms to help give their businesses a needed financial injection from the public. Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. This year we aim to serve 50,000 new customers and launch with five new brands. Tell us about something you love.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. I think we’ve talked a lot about drones from the investor or entrepreneur perspective.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. placed behind about 100 american entrepreneurs.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Social impact investments first emerged in the UK around entrepreneurs such as Cohen during the early 2000s, with innovations like social impact bonds. Their Impact.tech monthly event series brings together scientists, entrepreneurs and investors who all wish to use business as a force for good. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Gurley’s been attacking this from another perspective, that of the entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

It’s not perfect of course, and the majority of opportunities will come from entrepreneurs and not from investors, but it’s a good barometer of the current Zeitgeist in tech. They suggest focusing on specific verticals and leveraging customer signals to bootstrap an index. ? Now is the best time in history to be a builder.

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