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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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. The new ones are obviously offering more social network awareness and more ways to communicate, so that’s kind of where everyone is moving. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T. Jason: Wow, Chext.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). YouTube shines when it comes to brand awareness.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks. Full stack care/services, as coordinated via software, improves patient outcomes because patients get a network of support and accountability. 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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle. Like this show?

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Nurture your network; maintain your relationships. It is the innate power of a good founder’s network that will turn napkins into products and products into successful businesses. Recently, I was honored to attend StartUp Health ’s Healthcare Transformer Summit, co-located with Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas. Like this show?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. Order Here.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Steve Case , co-founder of AOL, chairman and CEO of investment firm Revolution , created the Rise of the Rest platform to promotes startup hubs outside of Silicon Valley.

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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.

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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. Debbie is also a proud member of the DTM network for the last 3 years. It's also a proud member of the Duct Tape Marketing Network for the last three years.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. The whole platform works because everyone in our network is heavily screened; they’re all experts. Focus on what to focus on.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2020

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. 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. 1- Being organized. Photo Credit: Kush Kapila.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 18, 2025

You need either (a) a network effect, (b) proprietary or hard to access data, or (c) “execute like hell and land grab in an overlooked vertical.” Since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people outside their nuclear family has declined by more than a third.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. They are the bestselling co-authors of The Unsold Mindset: redefining what it means to sell. You can find it @marketingassessment.co, not.com, dot co.

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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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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. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

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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. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. Dividing equity between founders » Home.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. The investors are typically more experienced with venture investing, which is great for founders.

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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. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical. There are nearly 1 million physicians in the US. Athenahealth's Culture.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the founders, but didn’t have much conviction around the scalability of a browser plug-in and the fact that this was a bridge round. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015.

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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? Data wasn’t a sector.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Iuri Struta , S& P Global ( source ) I was listening to Bret Taylor , the founder and CEO of Sierra, former co-CEO of Salesforce, ex CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI on the 20VC podcast. Vertical AI and fine tuning of vision models for a specific task is a step in that direction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective. The other “first call” went to Founder Collective. I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Improvement is linear and incremental.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir, Addepar and Formation8) kicked off a meaningful conversation with us on building multi-billion dollar businesses in big data at one of our recent Lightspeed Dinner Series events this week. Network Effects as related to big data. Network effects of knowledge are strong in the enterprise.

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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). But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network. In the digital retail industry, Shop.org is where the “cool kids” hang out.

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