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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering).

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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – March 7 2025

VC Cafe

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Thank you for reading. Keep on creating!

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Is the Future of Healthcare a Telehealth Company for Every Condition?

View from Seed

One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. .

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Horizontal Or Vertical Business Models: Which Is Right For You?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Why I Chose To Go Vertical. The system I teach to people, which Craig touched on when he mentioned creating consistent quality content, is to go vertical in your market (or “go deep&# as I have previously written about ). Transitioning To A Vertical Model. The Best Of Both Worlds.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

But in the long run this will all be forgotten, I’m just sayin’ But what should Twitter now do at Chirp and how should they treat the community? Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. Our promise to you is that we will do our best to communicate with you often.

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

So much so, there’s a “remote work tools” category at this year’s Golden Kitty Awards , annually celebrating ProductHunt’s products, makers, and community members. As teams become increasingly distributed, video communication is important for both internal alignment and external business development.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.