YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. However, sometimes business owners, company founders and independent operators have to take a tough look in the mirror. Bryan Miles is CEO & co-founder of Miles Advisory Group, Inc. It’s like a goat rodeo out there. Will you start today?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today’s online communities for those with chronic illnesses are quite outdated. One example is Wana , a community that fosters hope, direction and healing for people with chronic and invisible conditions. This could be similar to Hint, as an example, where people buy memberships for standardized services in a particular vertical (i.e.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. Our community colleges are excellent as well.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled. Image source.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

This makes for “taking” a game community easier, and introduces new complexity for big game studios I talked about this a bit on the Deep End from On Deck. -1: I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. If communities are a moat, now they are even more important to protect.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This makes for “taking” a game community easier, and introduces new complexity for big game studios I talked about this a bit on the Deep End from On Deck. -1: I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. If communities are a moat, now they are even more important to protect.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2020

Eight years ago, I founded STERLINGS Mobile Salon & Barber Co, a mobile full-service salon for busy professional men and women that parks right at their places of business. We have already pivoted to manufacturing trailers for other verticals. Thanks to Kush Kapila, STERLINGS Mobile Salon & Barber Co. ! #6- 20- Two ways.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Organic social: Build a community. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Many growth marketers will include “Awareness” in their model to tackle experimentation at the top of the funnel.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Product – Lastly, what makes One Jackson unique is the source of the original clothing designs – a community of independent artisans.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 18, 2025

Read while recovering from St Patrick’s celebrations The Anti-Social Century [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic] – Is isolation a leading or lagging indication of breakdowns in community, political polarization, declining birthrates and other 21st century American challenges? Read it, preferably at a coffee shop, with a friend.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. She is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living Smart, a full service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. I have found it pretty amazing that so few people in the tech community know their story or understand the scale and scope of what they have achieved.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. Our emphasis is on community, not commodity, and it’s about quality, not quantity. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2024

Then, they need to figure out a way to project that brand up above the venture community, like a Bat signal calling for the best founders to come and pitch them. What if you could draw that same-sized opportunity around a different set of criteria—not a vertical, but a theme that affects multiple verticals?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. Pitchbot.vc

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. Twitter hadn't been invented yet and there were no co-working spaces to run into anyone at--real ones like General Assembly and WeWork, or hacked ones like The Ace Hotel. Two key efforts really set the tone for the community we have today.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. Several years ago David Cohen , Jason Mendelson , and I started talking about the idea that the same principles of an accelerator model could apply to specific vertical markets or companies.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Danny Wong is the co-founder of Blank Label Group and runs the e-commerce startups Blank Label , Thread Tradition and RE:custom. As founder of DuckDuckGo , a search engine serving up millions of queries each month, he knows how to get the word out. Traction Verticals. Noah Kagan. My Experiences with Ad.ly. Dharmesh Shah.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I met a founder who’s sister was kidnapped (and later released). powered AI Co-Scientist multi-agent system to aid researchers. We have a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Every train station has been plastered with stickers, commemorating the many victims, the majority of them young.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. It’s also clear from our work that there is some confusion in the entrepreneurial community about the different forms of startup funding available.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. that red-shifts the sun’s spectrum for improved crop yield and quality.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise. otherwise you will compete with the community of the whole world. #22 Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. 8 Chris Weber on 08.11.09 Enter VisualSVN.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. For example, Munch , providing automated vertical video clips from long form content or KwaKwa , the latest product by Piggy, powering communities.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

To that end, my goal was to make the firm the most accessible VC fund in New York—showing up across diverse communities, getting rid of barriers to access like requirements for warm intros, and being conscious of which patterns of success I believe in and which only serve to reinforce certain power dynamics.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. That’s massive.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2015

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. In addition to the old-school general purpose crowdfunding sites, new platforms are emerging to serve specific verticals or sets of verticals. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth.

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