View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, o ur new blog houses curated collections and easy-to-find content filters, allowing you easier access to the posts we’ve written over the years, for years and years to come. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs. Li Jin curates the Side Hustle Stash as a free resource to find platform-based work. FYI curated a list of 171 free resources for freelancers : FYI 171 free resources for Freelancers. Side Hustle Stash.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial). The latest curated mapping of the AI Agent landscape was published by Menlo Ventures on September 26 2024. Can be niche markets where the large companies or foundational LLMs are not likely to compete with.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Andy Dunn of Bonobos , a vertical web retailer, will be driving attention to one of their core values in 2011: Focus on self-awareness, the core trait of leaders, both people and firms. Developing products based on knowledge of our strengths and curating products based on knowledge of our weaknesses.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

The way we learn about our clients and present their curated wardrobe is a luxury experience—the client doesn’t need to have a sartorial vocabulary for us to understand their needs and wants. Being able to master each of those verticals while staying relatable to my clients is what makes me so successful.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A 1) Industry reports.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. It offers custom reports, real-time updates, specific filtering, and easy organization of start-ups based on stage, vertical, geography, and Mattermark score (a proprietary index that measures momentum).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

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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. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans.

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deal architect

APRIL 27, 2023

We discuss reaction to the book, Business as Unusual that Peter co-authored and both Tilman and I helped research and curate -. In the 86th episode of Burning Platform, we host repeat guests, Peter Maier and Tilman Goettke of SAP.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, o ur new blog houses curated collections and easy-to-find content filters, allowing you easier access to the posts we’ve written over the years, for years and years to come. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2013

There’s a good post on Business of Fashion this morning which identifies four ecommerce models that are working in fashion: Social curation (which they helpfully define as ‘product discovery and connecting people to inspiration’). Vertically integrated ecommerce. Collaborative consumption. Online market places.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So there's been kind of explosion in the software that allows you to track, measure and pay in the partnership arena with some, you know, better in some verticals or countries or regions or stuff than others. And there's a whole host of ones in the B2B space. So the large global companies that have figured out how to do that.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. They also give their users a better way to develop and curate their personal online brand beyond the LinkedIn resume.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

Proprietary selection (aka curation) – e.g. companies that build their brand and community around their product selection like Nastygal and Modcloth. Proprietary merchandise – e.g. vertically integrated retailers like Bonobos and WarbyParker.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Today we’re announcing that Lightpseed and Accel are investing in Bonobos , a vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer. We believe that they are the leading pureplay vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer, and are well positioned, and well capitalized, to expand on their leadership position.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So we’ve been looking at leveraging that they’ve already got an audience, they’ve already curated a good audience of people and we can just kind of piggy back on that work they’ve done and sort of add value to what they’re already doing. Is that kind of what you were talking about?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. There are a lot of different ways a startup can achieve traction for their product.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

.” Inertia is too strong and companies like Spotify, which solve this via search, curation and personalization, are increasing their share of podcast market. You could try a theSkimm for podcasts – newsletter based summary and recommendations for target demographic or content vertical.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2012

I asked them to curate a conference--just as a mental exercise, not for real. We talked about focusing on horizontals and verticals--like financial education, technology's affect on art or mobile food. Taken in the context of a conference, no one thought that a generic marketing conference seemed that interesting.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 25, 2014

These marketplaces are the easiest in some sense because all of the curation, filtering, and matching is really done by the users. These consist of a curated listing with professional photos and an up-to-date calendar of availability. A typical workflow: Buyer posts job. Buyer invites candidates AND Candidates apply to job.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

There are, of course, other companies which make scads of money from carefully curated email lists. I keep a list of my best work curated. I suggest this curated collection of the best work from this blog. DailyCandy sold for nine figures. ” (P.S. Want more great articles? Thanks for visiting! About Patrick.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. Here’s why: Verticalized content needs context not just collections. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation. 99 per month subscription service to deliver a handful of curated YouTube videos to you each day.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

It is carefully curated and edited by Josh Johnson and David Appleyard. The “Sign Me Up&# button on the right has been stretched vertically to match the height of the two fields. Professional Hosting by (mt) Copyright © Compact Creative Limited 2005-2011 Company No.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

paired with b) user-submitted content and c) a few editors to curate. Someone is going to hand this guy some cash one day and I have no doubt he’ll build the HuffPo for this vertical, which is huge. Why pay writers when people will pen anything they want for free? They wrote for free! Why are they bragging about that?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Chewse: marketplace for groups to easily order great food. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. Also, Titash Neogi from Pune, India, pitched Themeefy , a publishing platform for self-publishers that helps users create, curate and publish books, magazines, etc.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. But old ones can be creative also, but young ones cannot be experienced. 2:1 to old folks. Mama411 (@Mama411_).

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? Curate one side. One way to make things function reasonably well at low volumes is to curate one side. There is a question of whether a curated marketplace is really a marketplace at all, but so what? Curation is really important. See: Ebay. See: Exec.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The advice, connections, and customers they seek are in all sorts of different verticals, and so it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to build out a conference where paying hundreds of dollars and spending a day makes sense to someone if only 10% of the content and audience is relevant. Mix up the formats.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. ” If you were to count off the major trends on the web today, fragmentation (both publisher and resulting audience traffic) would be near the top of the list.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement. ” If you were to count off the major trends on the web today, fragmentation (both publisher and resulting audience traffic) would be near the top of the list.

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