Version One Ventures
MAY 20, 2020
As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. B2B marketplaces will be particularly useful in heavily fragmented verticals where companies can source from a myriad of suppliers.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. . Scalable Go-To-Market . What’s the End Game.
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Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. While bottom-up distribution is pretty common now in other verticals, it’s important to realize that bottom-up is rarely done in Ed Tech. They focused on revenue early on. They hustle.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Vertical integration is a strategy where a firm owns or runs several stages of production, including taking raw materials and turning them into finished products. Therefore, firms that adopt vertical integration own numerous parts of the supply chain. Vertical integration is capable of reducing cost through improving production.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. Compliance and Audit: YC sees a large opportunity to automate compliance and audit tasks using AI.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
Reviewing financial & operational performance. By bringing in an industry player with startup DNA we brought somebody that could push the team much harder on how their value prop would resonate (or not) with customers, which verticals to target our offering to and importantly what others solutions were in the market and how we stacked up.
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