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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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.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses. Together, you can offer a much wider array of services and increase your territories significantly as compared to what you and your partner could have achieved independently. The possibilities with strategic partnerships are endless.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Interestingly, many different models have worked, but in all cases the criteria by which the General Partner is selected says a lot about what you should expect as an entrepreneur from the firm.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Does partnering with other businesses make sense? Here are a few of the advantages to consider when partnering with another brand or business. Depending on who you partner with, this could be an entirely new complementary audience or an expansion of the market you already serve. But what if you own a small business?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. Solving the collaboration layer in real time will unlock many opportunities for Metaverse developers. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. A persistent, infinitely-scaling virtual space with its own economy and identity system.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. So what does it take? Our example of narrowing down focus and tailoring positioning wasn’t unique.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. Innovative technology helps us serve our world more effectively, and businesses have the potential to develop and deploy these solutions.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. This is why our firm is quite multi-disciplinary, and why my Partners and I often lead investments in overlapping areas. AI Picks and Shovels.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

The enterprise features followed “Fine Tuning”, a feature by OpenAI that enables developers using the OpenAI API to customise GPT 3.5 Clever founding teams can do much more with limited resources and automate workflows for both consumers and enterprises across verticals. But not all is rosy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10-

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Now as projects are developing, it is clear that blockchain technology is still in the early stages. We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. Bio/healthcare.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2018

by Tom McMakin, author of “ How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services “. Potential clients might know you, know you are active in a vertical and have a problem they need to solve, but they need to have a belief that you can do the work effectively. Clients aren’t sold services.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. The company has opened the doors for new and enriching advancements in the age of space development. Thanks to Paul Krasinski, Epicenter Experience !

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. HR – new employee development, a leavers process, vacation request. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. What is platform thinking?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

How do you develop the right qualities in yourself? They want to make a difference by passing along knowledge and sharing the expertise they’ve developed during their ten thousand hours. The act of making lots of calls also develops self-regulatory skills such as self-discipline and delayed gratification. They want to help.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. Innovid has developed an interactive pre-roll ad format called iRoll, that encourages users to click on moving objects with the interactive ads before watching the video. Innovid raised $4.1

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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. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

This positions them uniquely to leverage not just their archives, but also their new content on an ongoing basis to partner in developing more contextually aware and culturally sensitive AI models. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. But is the opposite true as well?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. During product development and before launch, product marketing responsibilities revolve around the GTM strategy, positioning, and developing messaging.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” c) You never believed in the first place, and are blaming your partners versus just passing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. In the Installation Period , a great surge of technology development (Perez calls this Irruption) is followed by an explosion of investment (called the Frenzy.)

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

are what I’d categorize as “horizontal” – that’s to say, they don’t focus on a specific industry but rather try to help a group of startups generally advance their development. I root for any entrepreneur who brings drive, intelligence and integrity to their startup.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether working with a developer or picking up a coding language yourself, you can truly create something new to either boost your current startup or disrupt the entire industry for the better. Within a single course structure, It would be impossible to address the myriad technologies available today, across diverse verticals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. And he has truly been a pleasure to work with. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

I love developing new skills and there is never a better time than the ‘New Year’s resolution’ to decide what you want to focus on for the year ahead. 4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. 5- Give back.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. The following information is based on companies funded by us and/or our capital partners: The average most recent monthly revenue is $331,229.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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View from Seed

MAY 13, 2021

As NextView Partner Melody Koh previously wrote , we at NextView are strong believers in the potential for telehealth models to drastically improve treatment quality, access, and affordability across the American healthcare system. NextView is proud to have co-led Expressable’s $4.5 million seed round along with Lerer Hippeau.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

By September, they reached a point where the company’s lack of funding and their inability to find the ideal marketing partner was really starting to hurt. “I began developing Entrepreneur Finder to create the tools that were missing,” Deering says. The best way to overcome this?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. Take this post from Airbnb , which shouts out one of their accommodation partners. Brian Balfour , Reforge.

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