Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

I admire their continuous commitment to improving product innovation around the travel experience, a standard that consumers have come to expect. 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.

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ConversionXL

MAY 17, 2012

The design of your website is more important for conversions than you think. Design is not just something designers do. Design is marketing. Design is your product and how it works. The more I’ve learned about design, the better results I’ve gotten. Visual Hierarchy. You betcha.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

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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. What’s Missing?

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

You will not need the same amount of programmers, designers/creators, marketers etc. AI Agents and Vertical Opportunities AI agents represent a prime example of application-layer innovation. These vertices offer the highest potential to disrupt established markets. Native GenAi companies should leverage that cost advantage.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This means that more and more entrepreneurs are designing solutions to global problems, creating innovative products and services that meet real needs, and driving social change. Some areas that are likely to see significant growth in the coming years include e-commerce, digital technologies, and sustainable business practices.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The first installment of this series covered Intvo , an AI-software designed to improve traffic safety. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce?

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platformed.info. Craigslist , that ugly set of electric-blue links that still stands around like an exhibit from the museum of early web design. You can follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Milis Bio is designing the future of flavorings with a groundbreaking platform to design low-calorie, entirely protein-based sweeteners, salt substitutes, and umami flavors. Personally, I love to read about developments in insect-based products.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Likely working in innovation strategy/new product concepting for an agency or big tech firm. Data-visualization, I’ve always been in awe of those designers who are true masters of both big-data processing and great information design. If you weren’t working for LexSet, what would you be doing? What’s your actual super power?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Its AI system is designed to decode the users’ cognitive and emotional states using their biosignals. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Judging by the ink we had gotten, we were the hottest company in the game business, with stories in Fortune, Forbes, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the cover of Wired magazine. Yet we hadn’t shipped a single product. All this activity occurring before we actually shipped a product.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 17, 2019

Your website design is more important for conversions than you think. You can implement every conversion-boosting tactic in the world, but if your web design looks like crap, it won’t do you much good. Design is not just something designers do. Design is marketing. Design is your product and how it works.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

If a business is to survive and thrive making an effort to be unique is a must. Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1 1 – Business Model. Photo Credit: Stefanie Tacata.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With over a decade + experience in three previous entrepreneurial journeys, I learned the hard way that focus and dedication to build expertise in a specific niche is important and is one of the keys to successful agency business. 14- Finding the elusive product-market fit for my company. 12- Officially Incorporated and more.

Entrepreneur 119

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. to see if they need to make a Pivot to find a better model.

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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. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. It’s a natural part of learning about your customers and business model.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. 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. What a great idea.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

The development of computer-aided design (CAD) previously revolutionized the design process. In fact, while other industries completely redevelop on the back of technological advancement, the construction site continues processes from those 20th-century heydays, and significantly lags behind in productivity. A fresh perspective.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Starting a company with a mission and purpose. “[…] the biggest thing I’d recommend is to start a company that’s on a mission, not just a company that’s building a nifty product. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Building a product like Wunderlist requires a large upfront investment into technology.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I always recommend going through a short demo of your product because it provides grounding for your future goals and helps us answer that vital question: is it possible to be a category leader or is it an unrealistic pipedream? The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model.

Vertical 167

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Impact First, Business Models Second. In the history of NextView, we’ve invested in approximately 60% consumer and 40% business oriented startups. Alignable ).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I always recommend going through a short demo of your product because it provides grounding for your future goals and helps us answer that vital question: is it possible to be a category leader or is it an unrealistic pipedream? The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). If your objective is to build a winner-take-all marketplace over a very long term, you want to build a platform that has the least amount of friction (both product and pricing).

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