The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean. Staying lean early on will help you when you need to scale.”. Find your niche.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Did the VC’s like your team ? They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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