VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. Vertical Applications Taking Off. A large portion of the funding and innovation in voice AI is concentrated on applications for specific industry verticals. This includes OpenAI’s latest round of $6.6

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

It managed to overcome security and privacy controversies and maintain a stronghold in video-call land. As teams become increasingly distributed, video communication is important for both internal alignment and external business development. Here’s his full list of Verticalization of Zoom ).

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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). DailyMotion reports 300 million active users; they watch more than 3.5 billion videos per month.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. With tens of thousands of new start-ups being created every year, the potential of a company to truly scale and become a large, stand-alone business is more crucial than ever before.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) It’s a big idea.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Reply Eran Shir , on November 21, 2009 at 9:35 pm Said: Steve, a great post is judged by the level of discussion it manages to spur, so in that metric, this is a fantastic one.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Pixar was at the forefront of 3-D animation and storytelling but had no knowledge of the movie industry or distribution channels. Disney was a staple in the animation industry but was struggling to produce high-quality films under new management. Focus on companies outside of your industry or vertical.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fattest part of the market often demands more education, more handholding, more social proof through case studies & references, and a relationship with a salesperson or account manager to feel comfortable with the purchase. Create and distribute content to those segments. An email manager adds it to a newsletter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Were they vertically integrated ? If so, why? I had my model in hand.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours. No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it.

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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.

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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.

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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 ). The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies. Let’s start with Facebook.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

For the competition section of your business plan, first settle on which of these two business uses applies to your situation: Internal management plan: In the management plan for business owners, a competition section serves as a vehicle for understanding competition and developing strategic positioning. Competitive positioning.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This capability could revolutionise content production and distribution for media and entertainment companies. Marketing Automation : AI-powered tools can automate marketing tasks like content creation, social media management, and ad campaign optimisation. billion in earn out based on performance.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. What do these new realities mean for the content creators of new media and for traditional studios, filmmakers, producers, and distributors?

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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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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By aggregating thousands of licensed limousine drivers, and overlaying that with a new-age supply chain management solution, Uber gives it users an experience that is drastically improved compared to the previous alternative. Another company with a high experience delta is Uber. Cash is king, and if you bring the cash, you are king.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

joined as a General Manager of the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, but renamed the company International Business Machines and turned it into the IBM we recognize today. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Thomas Watson, Sr. He even added retail stores.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. And that most of the post on trade shows was describing how to prepare and manage a physical presence in a trade show booth. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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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). Qualtrics, a leading customer experience management company, breaks brand awareness into three categories: Image Source. Brand awareness and recall.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Take Smartsheet, an online collaboration and work management tool, that relies heavily on Google Ads to drive traffic and free trial users. The results?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2011

mile manufacturing complex, with 100,000 workers – vertically integrated and optimized mass production. Durant would die penniless managing a bowling alley.). Here’s what he did: Distributed Accounting Unlike Ford, GM was originally a collection of separate companies. Relentless. But Sloan went further. Car Financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. It was a management problem.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Inspire each Marketer, Finance Analyst, Logistics Support Staff, Call Center Manager, and every VP to move one step up or one step to the right. Managers have a lower altitude, they are required to make tactical decisions – impacting say tens of thousands of dollars. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. They organize around a single market problem and solve it completely with a solution that seems simple to the buyer, by obviously and most importantly handling all the related tasks in one easy step.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds. Betting on the wrong horse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. So why is this important?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. They organize around a single market problem and solve it completely with a solution that seems simple to the buyer, by obviously and most importantly handling all the related tasks in one easy step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. They organize around a single market problem and solve it completely with a solution that seems simple to the buyer, by obviously and most importantly handling all the related tasks in one easy step.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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