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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&#

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

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Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Startup Tools

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Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. .&# … Reply Avron Olshewsky , on June 10, 2009 at 11:03 am said: Hi Steve, Read your book “The four steps …&# and have enjoyed it and your blog.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model. link] Matt Merriam It’s been clear for sometime that the venture model, particularly early stage venture, is not the best approach for funding tech startups, but the hangover from the Internet days still lingers. dasein Yeah, I agree.