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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

I’ve heard investors ask about sustainable technical differentiation for companies that you put on the customer/market risk end of the scale. are much more differentiating than technology. What is your perspective on ‘sustainable technical differentiation’ for customer/market risk companies?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)links for 2009-09-01links for 2009-08-13links for 2009-07-11Categories and Tags [.] A startup might simply not get a next round of funding and have to shut down.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at.

Steve Blank

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-03-26 , on March 27, 2009 at 1:02 am Said: [.] thanks Reply Denis , on March 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Steve, is this blog in addition to the book or instead of it?

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Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Actually, all the to-do list applications I have tried claim to be simple, it is not a differentiator anymore. So we can definitely expect KissMetrics to come up with new versions that will remove the incompleteness tag, I simply wanted to point the line between simplicity and incompleteness) Look at your own applications.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] I agree completely. link] Dejan Strbac. link] Yaniv Nizan.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The VP of Marketing looked at all the other PDAs on the market and differentiated Handspring’s product by emphasizing its superior expandability and performance. Reply Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Why The iPad Will Be A Success, In the Long Term , on February 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm Said: [.] End result?