The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

By September, they reached a point where the company’s lack of funding and their inability to find the ideal marketing partner was really starting to hurt. The best way to overcome this? Why, to create the solution himself, of course. “I began developing Entrepreneur Finder to create the tools that were missing,” Deering says.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. We asked them if they would use our CMS API’s and encouraged them to partner even more closely with us. We didn’t have the resources to do it all. In retrospect we could have also encouraged corporate video integration more.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses. Together, you can offer a much wider array of services and increase your territories significantly as compared to what you and your partner could have achieved independently.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Next47 and American Insight Partners VC, demonstrates growing trust in its current and future business model. According to Oslund, the ability to focus on a particular user — from classroom teachers to project coworkers to game night friends — creates a unique advantage for verticals perfectly suited for their customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

CPL One is an integrated online advertising platform for affiliate marketers that partners with leading CPL (stands for cost-per-lead) advertisers to help members create and run profitable (potentially) ad campaigns with ease. Select a vertical and allot a budget, and then choose an image that fits your new ad campaign.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. presence in new markets and verticals. Selecting Partners.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. We were able to raise a Seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners on a powerpoint idea, and never found the repeatable customer model. Anything that is not a standard VC dozen format will get thrown away by a junior associate with MBA before it is ever seen by a partner.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The value of startup landscapes is in curating a vertical category, and showcasing the various themes and startups in one area. Greenfield Partners published the latest HR (human resources) Israel startup landscape. Credit: Ortal Sasson, Greenfield Partners. I’ll keep adding to this list as the quarter goes along.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Johnson had VanDerveer bring the basketball team down to the track so they could work on their foot speed and vertical jump by doing things like toe raises, lunges, short sprints, and barefoot training in the grass. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog , on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Blank: “Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large [.] in Entrepreneur, VC, decision making.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it. Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. presence in new markets and verticals. Selecting Partners.

Channel 77

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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.&#

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Within a single course structure, It would be impossible to address the myriad technologies available today, across diverse verticals. Successful techs have the skills to partner with the “business” people. Here are the ideal tech lesson plans and class schedules they suggested: 1. Teach Some Curiosity.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. I’ve been on the side of your potential partners, and I know that often too much ‘persistence’ is offputting. Oh, and we had no installed customer base.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Does partnering with other businesses make sense? Here are a few of the advantages to consider when partnering with another brand or business. Depending on who you partner with, this could be an entirely new complementary audience or an expansion of the market you already serve. But what if you own a small business?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

#14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority. Vertical videos let potential customers Know, Like, and Trust brands faster, which can increase their reach.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10-

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Also, there are a variety of strategies for “easing out&# gracefully such as finding an outsourcing vendor or new partner. I’ve watched new CEO’s brought into large existing consumer products companies to turn around a failing strategy. Their new strategy included a complete revamp and simplification of the product line.

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deal architect

AUGUST 20, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

The flipside, of course, is that the more transparent and direct you are with your employees, the more they’ll trust you to tell them the truth (even when it’s tough), the more reassured they’ll feel that you are actively monitoring the situation, and the more empowered they’ll be to partner with you on the solution.

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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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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. For example, Coinbase raised its Series E this quarter. Bio/healthcare. We wouldn’t be here without your encouragement and support.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

As senior partner in Libreum Capital Management , JP James helps set the strategic direction in the diverse set of financial companies including alternative investments, private equity, risk management, investment banking focused on multiple verticals including medical, wellness, fracking tech, entertainment tech, and others.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley, Nick led operations at Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based social media insights company, which was the first to partner with Twitter in understanding brand sentiment.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How many campaigns, how many creatives, how many partners, how many referrers? For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals. Each quarter is an opportunity to test and refine campaign tactics for other verticals. “I Scale of investment.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

My answers are actually bland, largely because I had a pretty good handle on what the initial 12 months would bring and a great partner in Satya Patel. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. While not perfect, these experiences helped tune my radar before Homebrew invested Dollar One. Chasing Hot Markets.

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deal architect

MARCH 30, 2023

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Frank Ruland, Global Head of Industry Ecosystem at SAP. As we know,

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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

The company closed a large Seed Round in December 2012 from Mangrove Capital Partners and is “on track with our growth plans to follow up with a Series A round in Q1 or Q2 2014?. It’s through this partnership with Qinec that Price hopes Zesty will be able to expand through “all the other verticals” and, as importantly, outside of London.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And But this story is not about Convergent.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. No one will say that it’s time to move on. No one will tell you that you are better qualified for something elsewhere.

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