ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

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. As a result, Zoom became a house name for video calling while their stocks grew by 545% in 1 year.

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B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. Continue to provide product availability updates when possible so they are aware of what is in stock and what will be available in the near future.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

If the brand is very strong and they want to lend that credibility to another company there may be consideration of a very small purchase of stock which would allow for the statement of being Partially owned by the higher quality or more visible brand. Certain deals may have an advantage in relation to who owns what entity.

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Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence 164

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Facebook’s stock should trade for $13.80 – [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link]. Good chart from Mary Meeker showing % of time spent in media vs. ad spending in same medium - [link]. The Case for Facebook (good analysis from The Atlantic) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. There were no venture investors. The “customers’” contracts funded the company.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 133

VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2024

First came the stock market slump, which affected late stage funding, then came the VC pull down (2023 was one of the lowest points for global VC deployment) and it was made even worse following the judicial reform (which was scraped) that gave some foreign investors cold feet. Other hot verticals included fintech, IoT, and digital media.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. There was once a problem finding information on smaller privately owned competitors, compared to the wealth of financial information available for companies traded on one of the major stock markets. It’s a good reminder.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

They tick all three boxes in the “brand mass” department: They have a strong reputation in the market (as evidenced by continuous stock price growth) They’re incredibly relevant (there has never been a time where renewable energy was more important) They’re a giant in their industry, owning more than 80% market share. Take Tesla.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Just imagine a company going public hands out 15% of their stock to their users at IPO – for free! . No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. And, Drover announced $26M in funding to take its car subscription marketplace to Europe.

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Portfolio Software Review Cofounder Canada 94

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). Reason 3: Cheap to get started The third and most exciting reason I love marketplaces is that they don’t require you to purchase any inventory or stock. Purchasing a hotel, employing staff, stocking mini-bars etc. But they didn’t all start off that way.

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Software Review San Francisco Valuation Stock 100

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. The 13 year bull run ends, and we go into a decline/recession scenario. 7/ Microsoft buys Slack. 8/ Deep Fakes become a huge problem for the 2020 elections.

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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. Thanks to Lisa Tadewaldt, Urban Forest Pro ! #11-

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 97

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES. based teachers.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Finally, the Israeli stock market outperforms global peers despite war, surging 27% in 2024. source: Felicis ) Europes top 50 SME Vertical SaaS scale-ups according to Eight Roads ( source ) The Prosumer top 50 startups, according to German VC fund Headline includes 3 Israeli startups!

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Israel ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Australia 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. Investor sentiment has shifted away from growth stocks with high price/earnings multiples.

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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. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #5- And as we all know, wowing the customer over and over is no easy task. Photo Credit: Hussain Almossawi.

Entrepreneur 127

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Even if you do look at it to see if it supports your suspicions, don’t put too much stock in it. Attention maps.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. They’ve promised me founders stock in their company if I fish them out of the hole, which I’m well on my way to doing. When we were unable to get traction in that one business, we just about lost it all.

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Southern California Offshore Silicon Valley Vertical 75

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

For a naturally social media-optimized logo, avoid overtly long horizontal or vertical designs. Choose a logo with a nice visual balance between its horizontal and vertical axis. Often, this is because designers use stock art or templates to design swooshy people logos and you should avoid stock art at all costs in logo design.

Design 91

Design Social Media Non-Compete Vertical 91

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

I, I think about it like stocks, right? Chances are, you won't make as much money open in those stocks over the next decade as finding the next blockchain company or crypto or someone who's gonna, you know, 10 X, I, I think the large digital marketing channels are now bonds. And there's a whole host of ones in the B2B space.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In this post, I aim to take stock of the AI Agent ecosystem, compare incumbents versus startups, explore areas of opportunity for founders building in this space, and look ahead at the future of AI Agents. Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial).

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2011

mile manufacturing complex, with 100,000 workers – vertically integrated and optimized mass production. When his board fired him, Durant bought a competing company called Chevrolet, built it larger than his last company, and used Chevy stock to buy out his old company – General Motors – and threw out the board.

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Detroit Distribution Vertical Finance 312

blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. Old school. Toast is simple.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups. It takes inventiveness, boldness, and bravery, and we are all stocked up on these three ingredients at S?d. What’s your biggest piece of free advice to startups?

Startup 87

Startup San Diego Non-Compete Miami 87

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

VPs have a higher altitude, they are paid a ton more in salary, bonus and stock, because they carry the responsibility for making super strategic decisions – impacting tens of millions of dollars. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Oh, and don’t get me started on time!

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Analytics Framework Metrics Green 95

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

Far fetched, but with a balance sheet that is gigantic and the Peloton stock around $38 ($12bln market cap) at the time of this writing, I could see this making a lot of sense. -1: I think this one was obvious, but with Facebook rebranding to Meta it was a necessary prediction 3/ Apple acquires Peloton. 1: Failed it. Didn’t happen.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Technical Review ChatGPT Software Review 60

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Far fetched, but with a balance sheet that is gigantic and the Peloton stock around $38 ($12bln market cap) at the time of this writing, I could see this making a lot of sense. -1: I think this one was obvious, but with Facebook rebranding to Meta it was a necessary prediction 3/ Apple acquires Peloton. 1: Failed it. Didn’t happen.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Technical Review ChatGPT Software Review 60

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. When Jobs came in and reversed those decisions, most industry analysts thought Jobs was insane.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Whenever I looked over at him, he was on the Stocktwits web site communicating with the stock community he’s helped create and loves. He loves stocks. He loves the community of people that care about stocks. While Foundry Group generally avoids investing in vertical markets, we make an exception for our Distribution theme.

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Vertical Distribution Stock Community 138

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. US VC versus stocks. A VC fund that is at 2x after ten years doesn’t feel great if the stock market has been in a massive bull market, but it might feel great if the economy overall has stalled or suffered a significant crash.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In “ How my dad fishes for the future ,” The Marine Stewardship Council provides exercises for the audience to help answer questions like “how can we conserve fish stocks?”. If you want to show differences in proportions between groups, a horizontal or vertical bar chart is the easiest way to do it. Line charts.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105