VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. Next-gen avatars for next-level communication – AI gives consumers a hyperrealistic digital likeness they can use to instantly generate and share these assets.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of start-ups try to carve away parts of LinkedIn by being the “LinkedIn for x” – where x ranges from doctors, teachers, finance professionals, academics, lawyers, engineers, etc. They also give their users a better way to develop and curate their personal online brand beyond the LinkedIn resume.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. The site had a lot of bells and whistles and an open community model, and generated some interest in the online ideation world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. The Steps of Creative Communication – [link]. An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. 40+ Amazing Examples of Graffiti Art – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. But a lot of people are very apprehensive and we’ve seen a lot of failures with companies like Blippy who tried to make finances and money with social.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

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