Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&# 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.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. Which is why I had OEM sales as part of marketing—we had to earn our keep.). It took a long time for our market to develop, so Oracle wasn’t exactly a growth explosion in the early days. They thought we were a little nuts.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Do they believe you have a big enough vision and market. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. If you’re following Customer Development you are now raising money because even with this first rev of the product you think you’ve found product/market fit and you want to scale. Of course not.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Our market cap is around $170B. What is sometimes missed is the opportunity for big companies to leverage their enormous assets (brands, relationships, routes-to-market, etc.)
Steve Blank
AUGUST 23, 2016
They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Previously, at Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. You can bootstrap it.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 23, 2016
They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Previously, at Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. You can bootstrap it.
Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2016
Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. However they got early signs that they might be on to something: Most people thought we were very wrong. We went a full year without raising any serious money. We launched Prezi at a startup competition.
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