Demand Seed Stage Vertical 
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 24, 2016
Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. On-demand and excess capacity apps. On-demand and excess capacity apps. Labor marketplaces for a variety of professions.
Hippoland
JULY 24, 2016
Valuation is a nebulous topic amongst early stage startups, so I thought I’d really spell it out in detail. In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand. This just doesn’t happen.
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VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Creators Platform Dependency. Take Twitch for example.
David Cohen
AUGUST 29, 2013
Several entrepreneurs wrote me, but this story really stands out as a warning to do your diligence and demand full transparency. It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. Not all accelerators are created equal.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 23, 2012
And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. One way to jump-start a marketplace with sellers is to attract them to a platform with carrots other than buyer demand. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical.
View from Seed
AUGUST 2, 2017
Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal. Early-stage investing is still the only thing we do.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate. 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate.
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