YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The recruitment types – championed by sites like LinkedIn, Monster or CareerBuilder – is built to facilitate vertical interaction between recruiter and job seeker, while the entrepreneur versions are typically networking sites for entrepreneurs that facilitate interaction but has little other inherent purpose.

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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. Virtual employees for hire.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Onshore immigrant employees in Canada. Put together a really hard problem to solve and run it as your own contest, or use a platform like HackerRank or Talentbuddy.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2024

These systems come in various types, such as carousels, vertical lift modules, and mini-load systems, each tailored to meet specific warehouse requirements. These systems enable the efficient utilization of vertical space, facilitating easier storage and retrieval of goods.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench. This offers a cornucopia of new ideas and potentially an influx of new employees experienced in this domain. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

No matter what stage your business is currently at, it can cause significant difficulties when employees move on to find new employment. However, although these are good, they often aren’t what employees deem to be the most important issues relating to their happiness. Focus on staff motivation. Introduce a monthly staff social event.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. They have employees who know these apps sit in on the break-out sessions and talk with customers, analysts, journalists and VC’s about why they love that particular area. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Encourage your employees to take some time to think about the morals and practices that make your organization so unique. This leaves your audience with little to wonder about how you are handling the pandemic. Ask for consumer feedback.

Marketing 171

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

If you see signs of internal misalignment, such as too many meetings, overload of emails, or lack of engagement at any level, now is the time to take action before customers and employees both sense it and leave you. Improve reporting structure support (vertical alignment). Assure team alignment of values with company values.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. HR – new employee development, a leavers process, vacation request. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. But it can also force you to hit the pause button and perhaps take a moment to reevaluate your life and your choices. Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 22-Investment in Employees. Thanks to KOYA !

Entrepreneur 97

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2022

Whether you are a cash-strapped business or a multinational corporation, the cost of taking on a new employee is as high as $4,129 per hire. Besides, the professional development of critical employees can affect your hiring activities — from long-term recruiting needs to succession planning. Tap into employee advocacy.

Cost 117

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. The idea of intention is that if employees understand the thinking behind the mission, they can work collaboratively to achieve it. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. Starbucks puts its employees first in a number of ways. Their 401k matching program is extremely significant for employees.

Entrepreneur 127

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. Use a surrogate if you have to, like numbers of employees, rooms, tables, vehicles, or (here too) stars in reviews. You can easily draw your own map with any two factors of competition to see how a market stacks up. It’s a good reminder.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

An established company needs long term technical employees that have deep knowledge of the product, its history, how customers use and value its features and the processes used in its manufacturer. Outsiders can often “compliment” this core team, but they cannot replace it.

Product Development 153

Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We all very well understand, from a high number of notable examples, that great academic qualifications don’t necessarily make great entrepreneurs: some of the world’s most successful people did not have a linear, conventional or vertical career that would adhere to the current standards.

Technical Review 133

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell.

Silicon Valley 237

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

According to the Small Business Administration , just one in two businesses with employees survives to see its fifth anniversary. By the 10-year mark, fewer than 30% of businesses with employees remain viable. Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If expressed well they become the motivation that helps employees align their ideas and goals with the organizations reason for being or the customers reason for using the product or service. Only from a solid understanding of the founders reason (hypothesis) for creating the business are these things born.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. It’s been shown that a strong company culture attracts and retains top talent and employees tend to be happier and more productive.

Entrepreneur 131

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. If so, why?

Technical Review 356

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To your customers, employees, and suppliers you vouch for their mission, products, and actions. Focus on companies outside of your industry or vertical. And Disney was once again associated with revolutionary animation, without risking continued failure on their own projects. Grow your reputation. Makes you more competitive.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Yu and Young try to use each obstacle as a learning moment for their employees to create a brand that can endure industry changes. BlitzMetrics takes care of its most loyal employees, investing in their long-term success and always remembering each employee’s personal goals. Building a Sustainable Brand .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

If the articles, books, conferences and professional development you partake in and consume are all about your single vertical or corner in the business-owning stratosphere, now is the time to broaden your focus. I require our team to memorize our mission and values; we test every employee twice per year.

Entrepreneur 100

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Onshore immigrant employees in Canada. Put together a really hard problem to solve and run it as your own contest, or use a platform like HackerRank or Talentbuddy.

Canada 66

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 66

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee. 64% of the 2024 winter batch of YC had “AI” or “AI-related” tags in their Y Combinator company profile in the company’s directory. via Trung T. Phan ( source ) Generative AI video is getting scarily good Thanks for reading.

Israel 78

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Outreach was named to the 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups list, which uncovers the 50 companies that have stood out this year, attracting investment, employees and attention. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. Scanwell Health was awarded a $1.6M

Portfolio 94

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Teachable In a traditional business you leverage the time of your employees. This means that the easier your process is to teach, the easier it is to find employees who can do the work, the more employees you can hire, and the more profit you will make per sale. The lesson: stick to vertical niches.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

If you provide security awareness training for your employees, keep a copy of the training module on hand. The issues on Sundaresan’s radar are security and mobility , security and cloud computing , and how these topics relate to industry verticals like healthcare, retail, financial services and government entities.

Security 100

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). Influenced by the rapid growth of the bike-sharing craze in China, a savvy Uber employee spun out to create Bird.

Technical Review 165

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2014

The reason this works in physical stores is because real-life employees are there to answer questions & make recommendations based on what they observe about the customer. Amazon and other large online retailers use personalized marketing automation tools to give recommendations like an experienced, well trained employee.

eCommerce 112

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g,

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