Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

. - HT: don''t outsource communication b/c part of core UX even though APIs available - healthy dev environment around APIs, very important to get confidence you can build your platformon on top of them - APIs give you freedom, don''t have to invest both people and tech in maintain internal platforms - HT had to totally revamp their infra, to manage (..)

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Speaking from personal experience, this was the driving force behind our decision to sell AbeBooks (a marketplace for used, rare, and hard-to-find books) to Amazon back in 2008. At the time, AbeBooks was still a nicely growing and highly profitable business, but we didn’t know how we could turn it into a billion dollar company.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

During my time at AbeBooks , I was working in the book industry when it was undergoing a major disruption from Amazon. Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. What’s more it also required a large team of smart engineers that had experience in programming cross-platform software. Sometimes I think I should write a book about all the ups and downs we’ve had. Find your niche. Whole-ass one thing.’”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

They saw a need for an easy-to-understand decision-making tool that could enable all major players involved in building design (architects, engineers, contractors and real estate developers) to see and compare options for cost and energy savings. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp, who works to manage product strategy, engineering and strategic partnerships, talked about co-founding the Smart Contract Security Alliance, advances in how blockchain is being used to solve complex problems, and his ethos of “give, give, get.”

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San Francisco Cofounder Colorado Security 97

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Our Legal Advisor, Dr. Kanchan Dwivedi, is interested in latest electronic gadgets, and Advisor Professor Jayesh Bellare is fascinated by electron microscopes and biomedical engineering. I loved the books “ The Kite Runner ” by Khaled Hosseini and “ 2 States: The Story of My Marriage ” by Chetan Bhagat. Artifical Intelligence.

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Technology Cofounder United States India 65

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. and Indian companies.

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Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

He is a business strategist, author of three books, including the book we’re gonna talk about today, The Leadership Contact: The Fine Print to Becoming an Accountable Leader. John Jantsch: So let’s … So often there are key words in the titles of books that need to be unpacked a little bit.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. 11- Blinkist.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). See Page 269. :).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

He has a new book out called — Moving to Outcomes: Why Partnerships are the Future of Marketing. Questions I ask Bob Glazer: [1:13] How would you define partnerships, and what are you offering new in the area of partnerships in this book? [3:29] In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Bob Glazer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Market Type Integral to the Customer Development model is the notion that Market Type choices affect the way the company will deploy its sales, marketing and financial resources. Reply Ricardo Oliveira , on September 21, 2009 at 3:17 pm Said: Hi Steve, I’ve been following your posts and have been reading your book (the 4 steps).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Engineers design chips (adding their own designs on top of any IP cores they’ve bought) using specialized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. It takes a large engineering team using these EDA tools 2-3 years to design a complex logic chip like a microprocessor used inside a phone, computer or server. What’s Next – Business.

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Taiwan IP Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 436

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. 5 Growth Strategies to Transform Your Business.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Businesses start from scratch with invention, but simply adding on to that foundation with invention alone ultimately results in failure: whether by inability to adapt to changes in the market, competition, or technological foundations, to a potentially unfocused Frankenstein’s monster of mis-matched elements. SO WHAT IS A PIVOT ANYWAY?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Marketing first. Product second.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Marketing first. Product second.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And I believe, even at their scale, their ad load will need to further increase (along with their targeting abilities) in order to signficantly grow the business. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Andres Moran.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’ So you’re going to need another engine.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

.” “All parts of the company will share and contribute to the success of core offerings” “We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities.” The engineering team is being reorganised into 4 cross-device teams: OS, apps, clouds, and devices.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Christopher Eonta , Founder and CEO of MolyWorks , has a background in chemical engineering and metallurgy. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. collection, sorting, reprocessing?—?is

Harvest 63

Harvest Cofounder Vertical Austin 63

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. Context here.) The company failed.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. It’s free.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

They were national efforts of hundreds of companies employing 10’s or 100’s of thousands of engineers. There was a ton of engineering innovation and coordination along the way, and the project could have failed at any point. These programs dwarfed the size that any single commercial company could do by itself.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. The last quarter of the 19 th century, what Perez calls the Age of Steel and Heavy Engineering, saw the growth of America’s first national corporations in railroads, steel, telegraph, meatpacking, and industrial equipment.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It gets up and running fast with simple pricing, minimal engineering effort, and global document coverage. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cofounder New York Software Review 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consisting of a veteran team of financial market and technology executives, blockchain leaders, valuations/product experts and experienced engineers. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review New Jersey Valuation Singapore 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consisting of a veteran team of financial market and technology executives, blockchain leaders, valuations/product experts and experienced engineers. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review New Jersey Valuation Singapore 62