The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Here are a few pieces of advice for building well-loved software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that have helped me and my team realize our ambitions. If you are considering developing a vertical SaaS, it is your responsibility to communicate the technology’s robust benefits in a way that’s accessible to your potential customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. If you’re not a software developer, maybe if you’re a designer, you’re going to also likely gravitate towards your skills. Back to Podcast.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking? The underlying strategies are not new. Customer intimacy.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. There are several different structures a business can adopt in order to create efficient and well-received management practices.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Last year Facebook opened a temporary office in Vancouver to train newly hired developers while they wait for U.S. Acquire a smaller development shop.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. The unit itself is essentially a mini portable Wi-Fi-based broadcasting station and software development platform, WiCastr said.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Fast forward to 2013.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Occupations and hobbies are best.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Additionally, you’re not expected to excel at every single vertical of successfully managing the business. Software development? Even if you’re not aiming to become the largest corporation out there, scaling your business would probably mean that you’re going to need a few people to help you in different areas.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Early adopter verticals — such as software development and tech sales — is mostly in Gen 3. And the third generation added ML/AI to reorganize/optimize those workflows based upon the intelligence of the computer, not the habits of the user. Not every industry and not every profession has moved through these generations in sync.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

BPM vendor (every software vendor!) should read Steve Blank’s Manifesto for Customer Development. Steve Blank and Eric Ries writings should be mandatory for software developers in the BPM [.] Reply links for 2009-09-28 • Bare Identity , on September 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. The vast majority do not. 23 Sean Harlow on 08.11.09 Use open source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link]. Hi-Res Plaster And Concrete Texture Pack – [link]. 35+ Great Poster Tutorials and Poster Inspiration – [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. There’s plenty of pie to go around. But, more importantly, your competitors are continually setting new standards for working. It’s your job to embrace, adopt, and build upon them.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

And as much as I like the startup ecosystem here it seems to me that the people cost of software development forces startups to launch half-baked products. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link].

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. I have been using Vertical Response for a few years now, I pre-pay for credits in bulk and get a super low price per email, solid 25% lower than MailChimp that I keep hearing a lot of people mention.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. They must open offices for sales, software development and services in many other cities to attract the talent that they need and to be close to their customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? . “Print designers are going to have to face up to reality and learn how to design for real users&# – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? . “Print designers are going to have to face up to reality and learn how to design for real users&# – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop – [link].

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. He even added retail stores.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Software developer Patrick McKenzie aka @Patio11 (easily one of my favorite marketers to follow and learn from) asserts that 40-60% of users who sign up for a free trial of almost every software or SaaS application will use it once and never come back. Don’t limit your testing to flight risk customers. The Execution.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2014

A software developer can use a company such as Layer to easily add communications technology to a mobile app. We invest in lots of “software as a service” businesses—what I call “sexy software in unsexy verticals”—so industries such as commercial construction can empower their teams through tech.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. The name was inspired by the term software development kit which programmers use to more quickly create software through pre-written code functions. Photo Credit: Carl Potak.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. Building or buying software that doesn’t align with your business goals or meaningfully help you stand out can be wasteful. Risks vary based on whether you develop or purchase software.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 28 Free Resource Websites for Designers and Developers – crowdspring.co/18mjrou. Interesting Web Design Trend: Vertical Split Layouts – crowdspring.co/1eEmorS. 1eEieQL.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2015

When I started my software development company, 5 Nerds Software, one of the first areas I focused on was our logo. In this industry, there’s an expectation that we’re on the cutting edge of development & design trends so having a logo that sent the right message was extremely important.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It’s like arguing against vertical software.

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