VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). Inworld AI (image credit: Techcrunch ). Industry reports. Eminem and Dr Dre bored ape performance at the VMAs. Bored Ape M&Ms.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. 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). In the meantime, we have what we have today.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

IP issues, malicious use, future regulatory risk – Midjourney. So how can Generative AI startups compete given these platform dependency, competition and IP risks? Regulation (and the platform’s own T&Cs) will have to catch up to the pace of bad actors to quickly address these risks. Is UX enough of a competitive moat?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 13, 2023

These seed companies raised enough capital to persist longer than normal and/or weaker companies in hot verticals received follow-on financings that wouldn’t normally be granted to them in a tougher environment. Startups Past: the boom of the last decade kicked forward and delayed a bunch of closures.

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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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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

Which of your IP assets is your core? In earlier college business administration courses, professors often touted the advantages of “vertical integration,” the process of bringing all production from raw materials through the finished product under one roof. The core we abandoned in this new generation.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2011

LumaPartners , a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Dubbed LUMAscapes, each infographic provides a breakdown of the players in the vertical, by category.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And sometimes we're just used to always thinking in a certain way about who that audience is sometimes within a vertical segment, other times maybe within a certain type of person that comes from a certain demographic background. But the point of view and the method is the same, regardless of what stage you're in.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. That context can help sites rank in a vertical like recipes, where search engines can’t differentiate a good chocolate chip cookie from a life-changing one. Geography (i.e.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. As Amazon built its logistical and server infrastructure, it systematically moved into one new vertical at a time: shoes, kitchen appliances, etc. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

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Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

We’ve written about the rise of the vertical reputation graph and how the enterprise is still a nascent area for collaboration. Unlike code where version control of text is relatively straightforward, product and design IP is locked up in inaccessible file formats (binary). We don’t need more visual tools.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. The physical office hasn’t been rendered obsolete by any means, but IP video conferencing has fundamentally changed how and with whom many people work on a daily basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So we kind of have three different sub-verticals, and that also keeps it really interesting and really fresh. We have the Not for Profit, which is a buy-in kind of life plan guarantee. And then we've actually evolved into business to business companies that serve the senior living industry. And so really you're down to about 30%.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! That’s not found in a set of slides. Filed under: E.piphany « Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 258

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Our process to process appeals is particularly bad; # appeals not yet heard forms a vertical line if we graph it. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. He’s involved in this project to sort out unique identifiers for owners of IP (e.g., Dickinson: Why is that important?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. Most of the startups can be classified into two general categories. There are challenges on both sides.

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Austin Artificial Inteligence Startup Vertical 49

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

Or, at the very least, narrowly targeted verticals.). Still, if you’re targeting a narrow vertical rather than a specific company (or don’t have the data for a true company- or target-specific ABM campaign), Similar Audiences can be useful. Content for paid advertising campaigns—ad copy, images, landing pages, downloadables, etc.—is

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

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Israel IP Analytics Portfolio 68

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. RollWorks then helped Payscale switch from IP address targeting to machine learning targeting by connecting with Salesforce. The company understands the value of an engaging, optimized landing page following a click-through.

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Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. You figure out a way to compete with them, not on the surface but in a different direction… Make a vertical (niche) so good that you own a large market share. They end up infringing other patents when going abroad. Don’t threaten the Chinese Internet giants.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick. It varies by company and changes over time.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

and Baidu, are logged by those search engines, along with basic connectivity information such as IP address and browser version. In all three cases, you can compare your performance to specific vertical markets (for example, retail, apparel, software, and so on), which is much more meaningful. . #4: Search Engine Data.

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Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 124

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The JAIC is a tiny team, yet we have a product directorate with 32 products that we’re building across six verticals – all the way from warfighter health to Joint warfighting to Business Process automation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance. Nand Mulchandani.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment? NEW media has become the home of innovation and imagination. Learn What Hollywood 4G Will Look Like Nothing is more important to U.S.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley IP Technical Review 76

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. Machine Learning Training – Hardware.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. If there’s a patent for a cutting-edge AI development, replicating their approach in your solution violates their IP. Market maturity: Conversely, competitors are investing in a new featureset and thus, they’ve become table stakes.

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Software Review Technical Review Software Acquisition 96

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Purchase IP from the vendors. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it’s easy to stand against something. it takes no intelligence.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1. The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. At the minimum, make recommendations for decent sized experiments to validate profitability. Do a little competitive intel of your own. For just a few dollars a month get VPN software.

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