Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) As Marketing and Sales flail around in search of a sustainable market, the company is burning through its most precious asset—cash. Because it isn’t until after first customer ship that a startup discovers that their initial hypotheses were simply wrong (i.e.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 11) Exit . .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The search for commercial supercomputer applications was good news for Ardent, as this was our business as well. I responded to their RFP by proposing that Ardent build the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center a distributed supercomputing environment with hundreds of Ardent personal supercomputers rather than a monolithic Cray supercomputer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it. Don’t bother him; he knows what he’s doing. Tell them how great it’s going to be and see how many pre-orders we can get.” More on this in future posts.)

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. We provide space and we promote them to our community.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

It is among the hottest spaces for deep research and Venture Capital investment, and like all technologies before it, humans will roll the dice if there is a big dollar to be made, regardless of the potential externalities they might create. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is among the hottest spaces for deep research and Venture Capital investment, and like all technologies before it, humans will roll the dice if there is a big dollar to be made, regardless of the potential externalities they might create. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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