Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

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.

Europe 101

Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

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.

South Africa 70

South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments. How many campaigns, how many creatives, how many partners, how many referrers?

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

Israel 124

Israel SBA Technical Review Startup 124

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Media and Entertainment (includes Martech and Adtech) by Luma Partners LUMA Partners released their Q3 2024 Market Report for the Digital Media & Marketing sector. This capability could revolutionise content production and distribution for media and entertainment companies. billion in earn out based on performance.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Technical Review Vertical Government 78

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. in History from UCLA.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For example, our focus at Remagine Ventures on gaming, generative AI, and entertainment tech enabled us to create a relevant, focused network of founders, operators, co-investors and strategics who are active in our verticals. The focus on entertainment tech meant that we always cared about content creation, distribution and monetisation.

Management 103

Management Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI 103

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. 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.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

Silicon Valley 139

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 139

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. We’ll be bringing other entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and corporate partners with us. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. “You’re just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Identify key characteristics that delineate one audience segment from another, then create and distribute appropriate content. the product pages a given customer has been browsing) to segment and distribute content accordingly. Take this post from Airbnb , which shouts out one of their accommodation partners.

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally. while building their products in China.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

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 De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Startup after Iron Planet?

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Most of your listeners probably know what it is. And so he wanted to publish a book.

Audience 98

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 98

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. The other option is to partner with a PR agency. If you’re new to programmatic marketing, start by partnering with a reputable agency.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. Instead, they develop programs to partner with their customers in the process of continuous problem solving. Stop being a vendor. Tuned in leaders don’t push solutions at their customers and walk away.

Startup 233

Startup Leadership Vertical Distribution 233

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?

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley Investment Bankers Affiliate Vertical 233

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. Instead, they develop programs to partner with their customers in the process of continuous problem solving. Stop being a vendor. Tuned in leaders don’t push solutions at their customers and walk away.

Leadership 224

Leadership Vertical Distribution Programming 224

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. Instead, they develop programs to partner with their customers in the process of continuous problem solving. Stop being a vendor. Tuned in leaders don’t push solutions at their customers and walk away.

Vertical 223

Vertical Distribution Leadership Programming 223

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They represent the result of a lot of hard work by the company employees, and external analytics partners. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements. What do you see?

Analytics 95

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 95

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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

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. Foundry Partners 2-4: “Absolutely. We should definitely do that!&#. For a little while that was the extent of it. Expect us to add to this list.

Distribution 74

Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 74

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

Silicon Valley 236

Silicon Valley RSS Vertical California 236

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Your network will become your partners, customers, and brain trust. When we put those segments of vertical knowledge into one room, we see powerful forces align, partnerships formed and deals done. Another entrepreneur – someone in his network has another business, one that distributes apps. They finance you.

Networking 225

Networking Cleveland Cofounder Angel Investor 225

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.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Palantir has been able to repeatedly pair it’s core analytics platform with human investigators who unlock business value across a variety of vertical domains. The challenge ahead lies in translating this technology + human solution into a product that can be distributed through established sales channels for maximum scale.

Cofounder 167

Cofounder Vertical Algorithm Government 167

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2020

While our previous logo was a vertically-angled rocket ship, the new one – which features a box instead of a rocket – shows that we’ve reached a steady trajectory after take-off and demonstrates clearer how we help our customers. And it’s the team who at the end of the day interacts with your customers, vendors, and partners.

Social Media 191

Social Media Channel Vertical Partner 191

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. 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.

Media 145

Media Israel Social Network Flash 145

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems. Even the World Economic Forum is now working with global partners for the development of construction. It simply would not work on a global scale.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

Vertical 60

Vertical eCommerce Differentiation Distribution 60

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. We should definitely do that!”

Distribution 48

Distribution Vertical Partner Internet 48