Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

They’re also the second most popular category of influencers on Instagram and have a follower count between 20k and 100k. Mid-tier influencers can be found on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest as well as Instagram. That means most influencers fall into this category. . Mid-tier influencers. Micro influencers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. When we tune into any stream: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc., Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.

investing 284

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Along with Facebook and Twitter investments (see below) this wave is more diverse but no less speculative. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s why people talk about the PayPal Mafia, the Facebook Mafia, the Salesforce Mafia because these teams eventually want to do it themselves. Offense is spending time thinking about a theme you care about, doing research and then trying to meet every major company in that category. Same objectives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category. Innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my In these last two categories LA has as much of an advantage as any other market.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

When businesses want to reach an online customer most effectively, they basically have Facebook and Google to choose from to spend money on, creating a scenario where these platform companies have all the data necessary to pick and choose category winners. Amazon can use purchase data to create new Whole Foods brands and Amazon labels.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I was working at a venture-backed apparel startup for 4 years and saw the power of building digitally-native brands through Facebook and Instagram (TikTok was still nascent). Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. Crazy Rich Asians became the No. 1 film at the box office that year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I don’t believe it’s hyperbole to say that Twitter and Facebook are truly transformative at a societal level, for example. Sure, that’s a fine category. It’s not all sunshine and candy canes. We are building a lot of stuff now that has no longevity. But next month I’m on to the next one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. If you are an early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Tumblr, GroupOn, LivingSocial, etc. I believe that. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

I use it much more frequently than I’ve ever used Facebook and have done so since inception. “If the company was able to use the Sequoia deal to drive its Facebook acquisition value higher, then in theory the founding team’s smaller share of a larger $ pie is greater than the larger share of a smaller $ pie.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2020

Pitch deck outlines are ok, but they don’t say much about what you’re trying to convey besides particular categories that may or may not be relevant. If you want to build the next Facebook, but your assumption is that 3/4 of the users are paying customers, that might not be so believable. Why do I say it like this?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

That’s 2x Facebook estimates. Tencent market cap on public market is $21 billion, Facebook’s is a theoretical $3-15bn (slide 52). China is innovating in many of the categories that the US is trying to solve now including mobile. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys. Mobile really enabled the entire category and created the free-to-play powerhouses like Angry Birds, Words With Friends, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Cut the Rope, Best Fiends and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I explain VC “road kill” – why some VCs may be gun-shy investing in your category (if they lost a lot of money in your space they are unlikely to want to double-down on the category. I remind Jason he did the same thing when he left Facebook] He argues that AngelList has brought new angels into the market and gotten them excited.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The funding round, which is between $75 million to $100 million in size (according to a person familiar with the matter; Unacademy has not disclosed the figure), valued the four-and-a-half-year-old startup at $2 billion, up from about $500 million in February this year when Facebook joined its list of backers, and $1.45

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

There were days where I could write about what I was thinking about Apple or Twitter or Facebook. No Category' And get back to the music, That started this s**t?” ” B.o.B. That’s how I feel. Or I could just write about life. But over time I realized too many people were paying attention.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Think about how much more value was created for all these constituencies (and society) by Snap staying independent vs. Instagram selling to Facebook. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. ” While Gigi Levy-Weiss of NFX says that the market is “sadly not happening yet,” Facebook’s Quest headsets have shown promise.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Consumers’ desire for social engagement while shopping is highlighted by sales within categories. Social shopping is particularly important for categories where consumers seek feedback or recommendations from friends. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Popular apps include: “SuperWall” and “Likeness” for FaceBook, “Slideshow” and “PhotoFx” for MySpace/Hi5, Friendster, Orkut, Bebo. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Advertising - Google and Facebook have dominated the online advertising world. Analytics - surprisingly, this category has seen its zenith. Social Media - Facebook went public in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Or less obvious, imagine Facebook without Sheryl Sandberg. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. Imagine being at a poker game, seeing the hand of a lifetime – a straight flush – (call it Zynga or Facebook) and not having enough chips to protect this investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

Nowadays, they have amazing track records to point to--Google, Facebook, Twitter--but what did their bios look like when they were about a year and a half into leading deals? There's nothing you can do about it. Its interesting to think about the career history of the VCs mentioned above. 5 Be a student of the game.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There are thousands of companies that “the crowd” can fund without restriction, including Apple, Google and Facebook. But since there are millions of other companies that do not fall into this category, the U.S.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Become an expert in that category. Buy at Goodwill or a yard sale, and flip on Facebook Marketplace. I advised her to set up a small Facebook page and a PayPal account. She began to drive cheap traffic to her Facebook page by boosting posts with $1 to $5. Test your idea or generate leads with 20 $5 Facebook ads?—?a

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This time frame follows Facebook’s announcement of its corporate rebrand to “Meta,” and its plans to invest heavily in “metaverse” technologies over the coming decade. The second-largest category where the term appeared was Finance, accounting for 101 of the “metaverse” apps.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

I also think we’ve seen a world in which a lot of brand advertisers are starting to think about what happens when they start to spend beyond Facebook and Google. For most of the last three years, there’s been so much talk about the duopoly, the idea that Facebook and Google are going to eat almost every last dollar of advertising.

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media strategy technology accelerator 114

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

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StartupNation

JULY 7, 2025

The two main categories are open-ended and closed-ended questions. We can broadly categorize market research questions into a few key types, and understanding these categories will help you craft the most impactful questionnaires and interview guides for your specific research goals. How often do you purchase products in this category?

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2016

My first step in meeting these people was to join niche Facebook and LinkedIn groups focused on these specialties I’m not versed in. I’ve created a quadrant to use when I’m planning my day, and these four categories help me invest my time accordingly. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn for daily posts!

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