VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Companionship Differentiated value prop vs. generalist chat products – AI companion products hat specialise in content that mainstream models aren’t good at (or don’t allow), like fictional role plays or erotica. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. It’s time to build!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

I love the way you differentiate. Would you be interested in guest posting? Jacob Webb Everyday Entrepreneurship [link] Reply Keenan , on April 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, Your Hueristics are at the core. Sometimes, it’s the failures or mistakes that lead to the successess.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But beyond Shopify, virtually any transactional SaaS product out there has added payments – from horizontal solutions like FreshBooks to vertical SaaS products like Clio and Jobber (both V1 portfolio companies ). This fact should scare every undifferentiated payment processor out there.

Software Review 115

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.] Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

You might want to be an all-rounder SEO agency or, as we discuss later in this piece, you may want to specialize your verticals. Expertise in a specific industry vertical or process? Grow your SEO business by specializing in your verticals. Build a solid value proposition. Do you have a proprietary tool that you leverage?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Eventually, games that depended only on CDRom for their differentiation fizzled out, as people saw that the access times for all that data made the games a painful experience. You could explain that, while you had access to more storage space per game, you were still running on the same Intel chip with the same graphics board.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

A catchy name goes a long way to cement your brand in people’s minds, but you’ll also need the help of brand differentiation to distinguish your company from others. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Both of these problems can be resolved by making your brand more memorable. Or is it? .

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off. Brand consideration.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals. Each quarter is an opportunity to test and refine campaign tactics for other verticals. “I We’re promoting people internally as thought leaders in that vertical, all the way down through content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 24, 2024

Known for his offbeat yet practical approach, he shares proven differentiation strategies that help businesses stand out in any market. Known for his offbeat yet practical approach, he shares proven differentiation strategies that help businesses stand out in any market. What draws you to Japanese culture? [07:26]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

What did I learn so far?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Perform a competitive analysis to determine how you’ll differentiate. To stand out, learn what competitors are doing so you can effectively differentiate. Choose value propositions based on differentiation. Table of contents What exactly is an ecommerce marketing strategy? Brian Balfour , Reforge.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how the competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. What is it on your website?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. What is it on your website? reviews, trust).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

which features do you believe your customers care about and where you’re try to differentiate? One of the most common ways to present the competition slide is to show your company stacked against your main competitors, who will be plotted in vertical columns against each other. “Our competition sucks&#.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. We thought about what makes our business differentiated and unique from existing companies in the space. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9- 9- A merger of two companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. Shipping Costs. Now, as I said, these are just averages. Wait a second?! superior customer service.

Software Review 117

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. That’s easy, that’s super easy.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). Instead of becoming a platform differentiator for Apple, Facebook is now aiding and abetting Apple’s only real competition. The Amazon situation vis-a-vis Apple is more severe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. First of all, so many other people are doing the exact same thing, so there’s no meaningful differentiation. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

Differentiate your website (and your company) with your design. Too often, companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. This kind of priming may also work the other way: A n egative first impression decreases the overall satisfaction with your site. How are you different from the competition?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though Dollar Shave Club’s organic strategy appears to be growing their following, there is an opportunity to improve by differentiating content across social channels. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Image source. Currently, Dollar Shave Club cross-posts the same content on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

If you can get to the bottom of Page 1, a page title and meta description written for humans (rather than search engines) could help differentiate your site, earn more clicks, and ( probably ) send positive signals back to search engines. Design pages to satisfy active intent first.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? The more websites or web projects to coordinate, the more complex the handling of the data. That saves a lot of set-up work—and even more maintenance work.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in. [2:25] Is self-publishing a more profitable way to publish today? [5:12] 5:12] Why would someone want to self-publish a book? [7:30]

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2024

Until then, venture investors—GPs, Principals and junior professionals alike—have a lot of lanes to carve out to try to differentiate from each other. What if you could draw that same-sized opportunity around a different set of criteria—not a vertical, but a theme that affects multiple verticals? Data wasn’t a sector.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. Despite the VC’s obvious disadvantage in the early stages, marketing and differentiation of venture capital funds is limited today. Can they teach each other something?

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

However, most businesses are looking for network effects, so they are less of a differentiator than they were a decade ago. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. Fast forward to today.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. This means that readers don’t have to spend any working memory on differentiating an ad from the content or stay on guard against accidentally clicking on one. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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