2004 Sales Venture Capital Vertical 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. and EBITDA margins are 47%.
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thebarefootvc
MARCH 5, 2017
Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. E-commerce has grown from $71 billion in sales 10 years ago to $4.5 We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.
thebarefootvc
JULY 5, 2017
Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. E-commerce has grown from $71 billion in sales 10 years ago to $4.5 We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
It’s like arguing against vertical software. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. So let me get this straight.
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