Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

A few observations from my time in India: Geography India recently surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country. E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. Given that China believes Taiwan is a province of China this could be problematic for the West. China’s largest import by $’s are semiconductors – larger than oil).

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

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. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine. In the past few years, AI technology has developed rapidly in China creating large-scale companies. Ling Technology is a board member of Jibo an exclusive partner in China. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Reply Calvin Chin , on April 4, 2009 at 2:43 am Said: Mahmoud, Here’s a second on the electronic version, but per Steve’s tip, I just bought it from Cafe Press and it only cost $6 to send it to me here in China. Hope it gets here quick and in one piece!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. 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. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters View More » Apple Apple Launches Online Store in China 5 Fun iPhone Accessories for Kids Apple Now Offers Free iPad Engraving Steve Jobs: iPad Mute Switch Wont Do.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

Benjamin Joffe (the author), a Frenchman who runs a consultancy in China that tries to help non-Asian investors understand the innovation occurring in Asia as a way to bring ideas to their local markets. But China literally gave us the Cell Razor. China Internet: 340MM, Mobile a staggering 650MM. slide 29).

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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. We can perhaps look to China, where social platforms are much more fragmented and organized around interests and demographics. There is no “Facebook of China.”

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 16, 2025

From administrative services supplied by personal assistants located in India, to designers and producers of prototypes in China, to call centers managed and located in the Philippines, there are efficient, well-organized solutions for virtually every process needed by a company to surround its core.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. On the other hand, in China, most of the users, the majority, are not well educated and in big cities working in foreign companies. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. billion people.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Humanoid robots are coming… and not just from China. Sacra estimates that Perplexity hit $63M in ARR at the end of 2024, up 800% from $7M in 2023. Plane is taking off. That’s all for this week.

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deal architect

JULY 30, 2019

In this part, Mike talks about the China influence on Fintech, Blockchain and other disruptive trends Mike, I was in Shanghai a few months ago and I was blown away at how isolated I felt. I didn't have the banking.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. As Justine’s timeline shows, the big players in this space are the large tech platforms: Google, Meta, Nvidia in the US and in China, Bytedance, Alibaba and Baidu.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Google’s clone Baidu is hugely successful in China. Every business vertical has issues that will range from areas in marketing, customer acquisition, customer service, sales, operations and others. Many ventures exist which essentially do the same thing, but with localization. Seek and address existing pain points.

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Berkonomics

MAY 17, 2012

From administrative services supplied by personal assistants located in India, to designers and producers of prototypes in China, to call centers managed and located in the Philippines, there are efficient, well organized solutions for virtually every process needed by a company to surround its core.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2011

This announcement comes just one week after the opening of the company’s new 50,000 ft² manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. Concurrently, increasing factory capabilities in China gives us a vertically integrated system, which will give us greater capacity for high volume product lines.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. Microsoft unveiled the 3.8B-parameter parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks. Perplexity is launching its own $50m VC fund.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 3, 2016

Vincent was a mathematician who grew up in China. After graduating from Jiao Tong University, he went to work for JP Morgan in Hong Kong and then was hired by Summit Partners to prospect (cold call) investment opportunities in China. For instance, a marketer may be simplistically marketing to segments defined by geography and vertical.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

From administrative services supplied by personal assistants located in India, to designers and producers of prototypes in China, to call centers managed and located in the Philippines, there are efficient, well organized solutions for virtually every process needed by a company to surround its core.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Now bigger than social media, messaging apps are on practically every phone, and only growing in engagement. Today you message your friends and family mainly.

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Transformify

AUGUST 15, 2018

In addition, the company has entered into a strategic business agreement with seven companies including China's blockchain and cryptocurrency specialized media such as Jinse Caijing and Weilai Caijing. Foresting HQ’s CEO Daniel Eom said, "This agreement with BitForex is meaningful in several terms.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

This increased speed and capacity will require extensive infrastructure investments including “vertical real estate,” like towers and other tall structures; new data centers to process the increased information load; and much more. a third of them in China, according to the global wireless trade group GSMA. By 2025, 1.2

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

Isolation and protectionism is not the answer, just ask China before it reopened to the world. The economic future of the Western World is bright, so long as it doesn’t squander its opportunities. So long as it remains open to the growth of developing nations and we manage to collaborate cross borders. It’s worth reading twice.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Whether it’s factory workers in China, tech developers in Austin, celebrity beauty influencers in Los Angeles, or angel investors in New York, I find a way to engage, communicate, and interact. It’s a helpful super power as a founder because I interact with a lot of different people in many different scenarios.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Medical device companies based in emerging markets are growing and increasing their market share; Companies like Mindray Medical International and BGI of China, and Transasia Bio-Medicals of India, and Ascendis Health of South Africa. It is not only U.S-. or Europe-based medical device companies that are tapping into this trend.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

of the founders surveyed were born in China, 3.8% of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like. I don’t know what number of entrepreneurs in SV are from China or from Chinese parents and likewise for Indians. In the country of birth it says 0.6%

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Or from your survey vendors such as the ACSI or the iPSI benchmarks for Customer Satisfaction for various companies / industry verticals. You may be considered tall in China but not in the Holland. You can use benchmarks such as the one dutifully provided by the Fireclick Index. Or from associations such as shop.org.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. Up to 25 percent of the units in such buildings can be used as fully licensed STRs? on top of being notably lacking in quality.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. while building their products in China. Trip 1 to China to understand manufacturing landscape, potential partners and rough cost of goods.

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