Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). Loom doesn’t require an Internet browser; Soapbox, on the other hand, is a Chrome extension.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Since Benchmark’s investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú? Indeed we are already seeing that online.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

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. You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 6:00 – 7:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Research shows that over 42% of internet users worldwide now use ad blockers to reduce how much advertising they see. While there’s nothing you can do about there being too many ads on the internet, ad irrelevance, intrusiveness, and size are all elements to consider. Ad blockers. Use content advertising to fight rising costs.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

While internet disruption has transformed most facets of everyday living, one of the last to really be redesigned has been the home. It’s interesting to note that Home Depot is a $180B retailer that has not seen significant threat from internet disruption. Source: Google Finance).

Denmark 244

Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Andres Moran.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% Attention maps. Below the fold: 19.7%.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey. Many of the inputs going into this investment were known to us at NextView.

Cofounder 199

Cofounder Seed Stage Portfolio Curation 199

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages?

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

Distribution 73

Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 73

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2018

Load balancing can be achieved by using a cluster manager which manages network data distribution. This ensures balanced load distribution and faster network response. Use Horizontal & Vertical Scaling. The other option to consider is vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is the ideal answer for pure scalability.

Vertical 159

Vertical Architecture Security Distribution 159

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. As the first generation born into an established Internet, with a smartphone at hand from a young age, Gen Z’ers place a high value on self expression. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. The 1% rule is now changing with Gen Z.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Back in 2010, Mary Meeker and Morgan Stanley predicted that within the next five years, “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Distribution strategies are different. Marc Andreesen famously said that “ software is eating the world.” Now it looks like mobile is eating the web.

Mobile 161

Mobile Web SEO Distribution 161

VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

The internet had a massive impact on the media industry, as the reporting of news became a commodity few are willing to pay for. Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. What do you think? But is the opposite true as well?

Generative AI 142

Generative AI Media Artificial Inteligence Vertical 142

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Israel Social Network Flash 145

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.

Vertical 113

Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

With a good article, you are more than likely to break the internet. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Bottlenecking usually occurs on vertical scaled configuration when the load increases.

Vertical 156

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 156

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals.

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet. The only way many e-commerce verticals can grab the attention of some of the very best VCs is to build a marketplace, not an e-commerce storefront. Leverage influencers for liquidity.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2020

Just a quick internet search will give you detailed guidelines on how to carry out a rebranding, step-by-step. For example, we worked on a comprehensive identity usage guideline and distributed it to the entire team across countries to ensure the consistent use of key branding elements such as the logo and colors.

Social Media 191

Social Media Channel Vertical Partner 191

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.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Voice-powered products and services will exist and succeed or fail via as yet unknown but fundamentally different looking distribution and discovery mechanisms. Because voice activation may require users to know both what they want and who provides it, today’s leading brands in any given vertical will have a huge advantage.

Vertical 120

Vertical Differentiation Internet SEO 120

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. The company is shutting down its consumer product in early June. Pretty much, it’ll touch everything: every sector, every industry, every aspect of our lives.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.

Distribution 48

Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 48

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The growth of the Internet of Things gives us an interesting look at how the CIO’s role is changing. The Internet of Things forces us to look at the world – the technology world, at least – very differently. Think of it as a compute supply chain, with the CIO managing the vertical integration of this chain.

Cloud 128

Cloud API Vertical Cofounder 128

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Small press (cheap or free). Search ads are expensive, however.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Some technology vendors are providing options to limit distribution of confidential information from GP reports. the Untouched Vertical. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100