Ben T. Smith, Iv

Spoke Software, powering VBProfiles and SpokeIntel, is a market intelligence platform that help its users to make sense of their markets. Our 2,000 daily users visit the platform to: - Track their markets: get daily memos and ebooks to know everything that's shaking their industry - Access Insights: The companies to focus on, the VCs you should talk to & the people you should target for recruiting. - Create their own industry landscapes: build their own micro-segmentations with the companies & topics they want to follow. We also offer viral industry ebooks on the Billion Dollar Startups with exclusive insights that have not been published elsewhere: - geographical distribution of these companies - number of employees, funding, and valuation to funding per sub vertical - a Maturity index - Company Status (Public vs private) - Top Angels and VCs Our last 2 published ebooks: - The Marketing Technology's 29 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Scott Brinker) - The Collaborative Economy's 17 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Jeremiah Owyang)

Spoke Software, powering VBProfiles and SpokeIntel, is a market intelligence platform that help its users to make sense of their markets. Our 2,000 daily users visit the platform to: - Track their markets: get daily memos and ebooks to know everything that's shaking their industry - Access Insights: The companies to focus on, the VCs you should talk to & the people you should target for recruiting. - Create their own industry landscapes: build their own micro-segmentations with the companies & topics they want to follow. We also offer viral industry ebooks on the Billion Dollar Startups with exclusive insights that have not been published elsewhere: - geographical distribution of these companies - number of employees, funding, and valuation to funding per sub vertical - a Maturity index - Company Status (Public vs private) - Top Angels and VCs Our last 2 published ebooks: - The Marketing Technology's 29 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Scott Brinker) - The Collaborative Economy's 17 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Jeremiah Owyang)

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Spoke Software, powering VBProfiles and SpokeIntel, is a market intelligence platform that help its users to make sense of their markets. Our 2,000 daily users visit the platform to: - Track their markets: get daily memos and ebooks to know everything that's shaking their industry - Access Insights: The companies to focus on, the VCs you should talk to & the people you should target for recruiting. - Create their own industry landscapes: build their own micro-segmentations with the companies & topics they want to follow. We also offer viral industry ebooks on the Billion Dollar Startups with exclusive insights that have not been published elsewhere: - geographical distribution of these companies - number of employees, funding, and valuation to funding per sub vertical - a Maturity index - Company Status (Public vs private) - Top Angels and VCs Our last 2 published ebooks: - The Marketing Technology's 29 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Scott Brinker) - The Collaborative Economy's 17 Billion Dollar Companies (co-authored with Jeremiah Owyang)