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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. What’s Next – Business. The business model of Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) like Intel is rapidly changing. Specialized Materials. Chip Foundries.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Lessons Learned Your business concept is not a company. More on this in the next post.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. In China, respecting copyright and intellectual property is still something that locals do not really practice. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. Innovation is more of monetization and the business model.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Harvard Business School Current Research Sources for Private Equity.