ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. Other examples include creating events, speaking at conferences, social networking, search engine optimization and publicity stunts.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. Just like catching a bug in development is cheaper than fixing it once it has been released, confirming lack of customer demand prior to ramping up a sales engine is cheaper than finding out once you have a paid sales team. The rest is just fluff.

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