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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

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. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Fees for these devs and shops run from under $5,000 to more than $20,000. Another good resource is Appolicious’ directory.

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

So, you know, there needs to be a new discussion with the finance team around looking at quality, you know, making sure there's not fraud, but saying, look, as long as we are getting what we want. Like you, you have a budget for commissions, but if your sales team doubles the performance, you don't say we're out of the budget for commissions.

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The rise of the vertical reputation graph

Version One Ventures

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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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. But is the opposite true as well?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable?

ReadWriteStart

The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. The other 99% who go out to look for financing get rejected. Less than 1% of entrepreneurs actually ever get funded. But there is no reason to believe that you cannot succeed even without funding.

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