Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

” And the best three VC vintages in the last 25 years came in the three years after the global financial crists – 80% of those returns came from emerging managers. The focus on entertainment tech meant that we always cared about content creation, distribution and monetisation.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This capability could revolutionise content production and distribution for media and entertainment companies. For example, our portfolio company Munch automatically creates short form, vertical clips for social media from any long form video and understands what’ s trending. billion in earn out based on performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Nobody has figured this out better than AwesomenessTV who not only has built an enormous online media presence but also packages and distributes shows for Nickelodeon.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand consideration.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. million employees on the platform. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. Use content advertising to fight rising costs. The concept of content advertising is a relatively new one.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

This one comes directly from a conversation I had with my father-in-law (a true scientist – professor – and more) about how global warming will continue, but this will be the first time people notice – due to the % of oxygen change. -1: Game mechanics within communities will be fascinating to watch.5: 1: Failed it.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This one comes directly from a conversation I had with my father-in-law (a true scientist – professor – and more) about how global warming will continue, but this will be the first time people notice – due to the % of oxygen change. -1: Game mechanics within communities will be fascinating to watch.5: 1: Failed it.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Iuri Struta , S& P Global ( source ) I was listening to Bret Taylor , the founder and CEO of Sierra, former co-CEO of Salesforce, ex CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI on the 20VC podcast. Durable distribution advantages. Vertical AI and fine tuning of vision models for a specific task is a step in that direction.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

These are but some of the global startups who are gunning to transform an industry that is, quite frankly, in desperate need of a shake-up. It simply would not work on a global scale. Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Jenn is a social media consultant, speaker, and globally recognized Instagram expert. She is a social media consultant, speaker, and globally recognized Instagram expert. TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Marketing Podcast with Jenn Herman. So you've got more variety of content.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

” As international sales for global eCommerce is projected to reach $1.5 ” The article also quotes Devitt as using phrases like “bigger customer base” and “lowest distribution costs” for hotels, all hallmarks of a company that takes Conversion Rate Optimization seriously. Conclusion.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Earth remote sensing (ERS) data has become a critical source when solving practical problems of local and global level, monitoring natural and man-made objects and phenomena, increasing efficiency in many areas of human activity , especially agriculture, transport, fuel and energy complex, construction, environment management, etc.

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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. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

We had a chance to chat with Nicolas Franchet, Facebook ‘s Head of Retail & e-Commerce on its Global Vertical Marketing team, as well as Maz Sharafi, Head of Local Advertising Sales and Partnerships, on how small business owners, especially retailers, build an effective online strategy for Facebook.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. the Untouched Vertical.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. For example, Munch , providing automated vertical video clips from long form content or KwaKwa , the latest product by Piggy, powering communities.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Retailers are cutting their lunch through some classic backwards vertical integration – that is, making the products their suppliers make. So my question is this, why aren’t the global fast moving consumer goods companies taking on the retailers at their own game? What they should do is simple.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

Innovate radically to invent new ways to distribute consumer goods. Brands that have a share of voice in the new media landscape will be ready to participate in emerging distribution channels when they arrive. To the boring area of distribution – the area that has been ignored for the past 20 years… Who they sell to.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. E-commerce is the canary in the coal mine.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Enterprises that have gotten past this reflexive response are struggling with how to integrate all of this new, distributed stuff with their existing stuff. Think of it as a compute supply chain, with the CIO managing the vertical integration of this chain. And it’s this chaotic struggle that holds back innovation and growth.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Our philosophy is simple.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Data on its own is meaningless, and can create more challenges than benefits, unless it can be quickly be parsed, analyzed and distributed to relevant entities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ has rapidly gained traction with customers across several vertical industries, including financial services, healthcare and oil and gas. Most recently he served as vice president within the global strategic partner and channel sales organizations for Symantec. CrunchBase Information.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. TastemakerX was the company Ruxin was born to build– that every hobby, obsession and savvy career move has unknowingly conspired to positioned him to create.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

They also use multi-channel content distribution to improve brand awareness and meet prospects where they already are. After this initial pilot, Auth0’s account-based marketing strategy was rolled out to the global SDR and MDR networks, as well as the company’s demand generation marketing team. via 6sense ].

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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