Category Research

10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

Whether you're a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you've probably had the need to quickly understand an industry. Dissect the supply and value chain, understand how money flows and what companies are playing in each category. Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly understand what's going in mobile gaming, SaaS, marketplaces, etc?

Research Stats Anyone? Boomers Online, Video Content, Global Online Ads and Social Search

On this week’s research note we’ll touch on some of the web’s main growth drivers: search, advertising, video and… baby boomers (you’ll be surprise to find out what percentage of Facebook users are baby boomers: I just received an invitation…