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. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Developing your company’s website is one of the most important investments you’re going to make. Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? In the early stages of your business’s development, you’re going to notice dead weight. Even fewer are successful with the original business model that spawned them.

Startup 127

Startup Retention Acquisition Agile 127

David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model (until its collapse 50 years later). He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers.

Michigan 268

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Yet another answer might be developing a digital following through social media, email lists, blog posts, eBooks, and so on.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. Our team was very much excited by the news that Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard. I would go to Mars because I’m curious to see how society develops.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

Philadelphia 62

Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

We’d hazard a guess that his affinity with food was what prompted him to develop Opinioneated ( www.opinioneated.com ). “I think there’s still many opportunities in this vertical in South East Asia and it’s one that takes on multiple forms – local shopping, local eating, local jobs,” muses Yongfook.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thanks to Allison R Lancaster, Online Business Solutions by Allison R. 2- Transformative development. 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence. I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Lancaster ! #2- Photo Credit: Joe Sinkwitz. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. while building their products in China.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

With this data, let us move on to the different aspects involved in creating a food delivery business like UberEats. Initially, Uber launched its vertical in the food delivery services with the name UberFresh. We shall take off from here and land on the business model of UberEats. Business Model Followed By UberEats.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. Customer Development) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions.&# Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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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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Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 122

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

She is responsible for the company’s vision and strategy for delivering innovative solutions, building an organization of the industry’s most talented people, and developing organizational excellence to deliver the highest levels of business value to its customers. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. We develop our own conviction and are not afraid to lead or invest when others do not. But ultimately, as our interests change, the one constant has been the founder. We like the non-obvious.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

I know our CTO, Dr. Paul Young, closely follows developments in lab grown meats. Personally, I love to read about developments in insect-based products. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. Extending the runway.

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Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

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. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model.

Cofounder 219

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219

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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, this is not to say that I don’t spend time on nor invest in AI, dev tools, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, etc. (as Being a generalist has taught me a lot about how founders succeed in different environments, markets, and business models…and these lessons are especially valuable when building in emerging areas.

Cofounder 182

Cofounder Portfolio Capital Gains Vertical 182

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

Startup 242

Startup Early Stage Vertical Sales 242

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? That’s why the free business model is so popular in China.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We want to see traction – specifically, how quickly you can capture the initial market or vertical** that you are targeting, and how engaged these early users are. After you demonstrate your strong sense of product design and development, we want to know how you will build a real business beyond just features.

Vertical 167

Vertical Distribution Business Model Framework 167

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 242

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We want to see traction – specifically, how quickly you can capture the initial market or vertical** that you are targeting, and how engaged these early users are. After you demonstrate your strong sense of product design and development, we want to know how you will build a real business beyond just features.

Vertical 153

Vertical Distribution Business Model Framework 153

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

Vertical 120

Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? How many are there? Can it scale?”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

The development of computer-aided design (CAD) previously revolutionized the design process. Even the World Economic Forum is now working with global partners for the development of construction. These platforms and high-tech tools have the potential to completely transform every aspect of the building process.

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Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. And with the 30-year statute of limitations now passed, stories about who I worked for (and the names of agencies.).

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 195

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2013

There’s a good post on Business of Fashion this morning which identifies four ecommerce models that are working in fashion: Social curation (which they helpfully define as ‘product discovery and connecting people to inspiration’). Vertically integrated ecommerce. Business models Ecommerce'

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eCommerce Curation Vertical Business Model 102

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. We are often asked what industries we invest in, but it is more important to have theses on business models that serve as strong filters. Vertical SaaS. are making it easier to develop hardware products.

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