ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. The company was founded in 2012 by Michiel Prins , Jobert Abma , Alex Rice and Merijn Terheggen , and today serves the needs of over 1,000 corporate bug bounty programs.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They were one of the first companies to sell an external disk drive for the original Mac; they had the first “color paint programs” for the Mac; and when the Mac was just black and white they had the first color graphics boards and large screen color monitors for the Mac. The first step was to recruit a new management team.

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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

7- Better Tech Opportunities Photo Credit: Maximilian Wühr There will be more tech opportunities for new entrepreneurs, even those with zero programming experience. The engagement of customers and investors is no longer limited to physical locations, as automated tools are unlocking new Thanks to Faisal Nasim, Exam Papers Plus ! #7-

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation. Pitchbook reports venture capital funding of US mental health startups as already surpassing the entirety of capital raised for 2019. Mental health.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2010, just three groups ( WarnerMedia , Netflix and The Walt Disney Company ) ploughed $250 billion into programming. Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Is it only one exciting vertical within the broader umbrella.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. This means they could fund other non-military academic programs from this overhead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

According to Graham, Google Ventures, a venture-capital firm backed by the tech giant, has systematically been offering to make seed investments in recent Y Combinator graduates, but only on substantially more favorable terms than other investors received. Blackboard Home » Google Ventures. Recommended For You.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

oDesk enables companies to easily provision programming talent from all corners of the globe. Another repeated mistake is attacking verticals where a satisfactory supplier “match” end’s the customer’s need to re-enter the market in search of an alternative. Economic Advantages vs. the Status Quo.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

No trade-up program? No discount for existing users? No tools to transition your customers data to the new and improved but incompatible product(s)? Congratulations, you’ve just fired your existing customer base.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. SFMC is currently raising capital for its second fund, Siraj Palestine Fund II, with an initial closing expected in Q3 2019, also valued at $90 million USD.”. Apply here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Given the hardware I had worked on at ESL, learning microprocessors wasn’t that hard but figuring out how to teach hardware design and assembly language programming was a bit more challenging. If you wanted your own applications, you had to write them yourself.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Was our compensation program good, great? Key applications : At the time color desktop publishing customers used only four key applications: Page layout programs called Quark and PageMaker, a photo manipulation package called Photoshop, and a drawing program called Illustrator. What did they think about our company?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Capital Factory Women in Tech Summit 2017 In conjunction with our month of women speakers and related programming, we are excited to announce our first Women In Tech Summit on August 23rd. This afternoon long Summit will bring together the most influential, and inspiring women across verticals. Register ASAP to secure your spot.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. The IIDF also plans to launch a variety of educational programs and to perform a number of legislative initiatives. Russian tech: Sectors to watch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

It also made me understand what kind of support sales people needed from marketing and what marketing programs were wasted motion. Making sales calls with him taught me what a world class salesperson was like. It also made me realize that there are times you don’t want any sales people in your company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.” We have vertical liftoff! For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name. When you got off the elevator, you faced a non descript corporate-looking set of walls.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Look at how many idiots think they know stocks, or programming, or even business. Think of it as 7 bonus post-mortems on the house.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. I blogged about, commented about, and eventually bumped into a fellow web programming who loved the idea and ran with it (Tyler Gillies). link] Nivi.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

A similar thing happens when a software program is repeatedly ‘improved’ so people can “do more things&#. The extra rent they were paying on palatial digs would have bought six months worth of runway… Reply Cy Quick , on May 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm Said: The same mechanism operates with nation-states and empires.

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