ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. PTA Portals.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. cities flocking to these machines, downloading apps for each network, and paying just a few bucks to get from Point A to B.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. Build Unique Networks Emerging managers create their own communities instead of relying on established circles. They often focus on niche sectors or geographies to build expertise and networks.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Why Electronics Intelligence? Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.) Order Here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Funded by military contracts these 1950′s startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. More in the next post.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

It was the model for almost every military startup that followed, and its alumni who lived through its engineering and customer-centric culture had a profound effect on the rest of the valley, the intelligence community and the country. Thank you Bill Perry for one hell of a start in Silicon Valley. It had Hidden in Plain Sight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. These individuals, possessing talent, experience or real-world networks, will continue to function as ‘virtual gatekeepers’ in the next-generation media industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship. This last point is illustrated by the chart below. So why is this important?

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. So this post is how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley&#. (I’ll And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.”

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. The whole platform works because everyone in our network is heavily screened; they’re all experts.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. In summary, the Customer Development process is there as a tool for those who feel that’s it’s improvement over having no roadmap. Order Here.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network. Unless he can get a network to buy in, there will be no point in producing the show. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The firm was founded more than 35 years ago and the team quickly realised that innovation was not confined to Silicon Valley. We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this shift.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

First Angel Network (Halifax). Wilmington Investor Network (NC). Band of Angels (Silicon Valley). Sand Hill Angels (Silicon Valley). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). BELLE Capital (Michigan). Boise Angel Alliance. Number: 30.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’ve seen this dramatically accelerator around the world through the Global Accelerator Network and when I wrote Startup Communities: Building a Startup Ecosystem in Your City , much of what I used as the basis for the Boulder Thesis came from my experiences here. Announcing Ari Newman as TechStars Network Catalyst.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in companies and platforms that leverage network effects. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. Jeff was obsessed with Instagram at that time as nearly every Silicon Valley VC seemed to be (and still is). And I’m a big believer in vertical use cases (in additional to more generalized platforms for sharing content). “And importantly Web 2.0

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Wilmington Investor Network. Silicon Valley. Central Texas Angel Network. Valley Angel Fund. Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. 2) Competition for deals in regions, such as Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston, has resulted in higher and, in many cases, rising valuation.

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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. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Feenix focuses on companies in the consumer space across a number of industry verticals including: multi-unit Food & Beverage operators, hospitality, managed workspace (office or food halls), location based entertainment venues, and various direct to consumer online companies. Apply for funding.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Of course this changing new venture landscape will also require different type of entrepreneurs – one that merges a software mindset with industry specific knowledge, network, and experience.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 back ends for medical, religious, sports, and other kinds of tourism solutions.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

For 2018, the IoT World and Project Kairos events are May 16-17 in the Silicon Valley area at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Selected startups pitch on the Startup stage as part of their Startup Pack, judged by a panel of investors & leaders for each vertical. A previous winner is Distrix Networks.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. If you decide that the way you want to address all this is by becoming, yourself, an ad network, that is certainly one way of addressing the pain point. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. Media companies are amongst the stodgiest "old boy network" environments out there. The Smart People Can Denounce Bravo's Silicon Valley All They Want.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. Notley also serves as a powerful resource platform for scaling innovative nonprofit organizations.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

If you’re a Silicon Valley billionaire, you want a flying car—because it’s cool. As a vertical take off and landing vehicle (VTOL) whose engines turn, you need little more than a helipad or an empty lot. It can be run as a single route or a network of regional hops with swappable batteries. Check out www.kelekona.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. Terman was the ultimate networking machine for Stanford and its military contracts. It’s amazing this guy ever slept.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From a tech perspective, we are excited about how fast edge devices, including mobile devices, are improving both in processing and networking capabilities. It’s in the heart of Silicon Valley, but against the traffic in the morning. If you weren’t working for StrongSalt, what would you be doing? Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow

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