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MARCH 1, 2024
Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Productivity gains Agents that act as systems of action – agents that can complete common consumer tasks like booking a restaurant or finding and sending a gift to a friend.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.
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David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. AskAnything.VC
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2009
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. would look in each of the verticals. Is marketing different if you’re in the cleantech business versus medical devices? Technology?
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Unfortunately, regardless of a VC’s age, their business models are suffering and IPOs seem to be a thing of the past for at least a while longer.
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