thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Entrepreneurship Startups Technology Uncategorized Venture Capital cloud computing enterprise IBM internet Salesforce SAP software startups'

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. In the future, there will be less platform dependency (as not all startups will be built on 1-2 APIs only in the application layer).

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. In his post The Disruption of Venture Capital , Albert Wenger described VC as “the club you had to be invited into.”. Enter Mattermark: where “Big Data Meets Venture Capital”.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. Fortunately, web apps like Mattermark , DataFox , and PitchBook wrangle, clean and organize the data so that we can focus on analyzing it. Vertical SaaS. Be kind and generous.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

link] a few seconds ago from web [.] But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.] Reply Jason Crawford » Crossing the Rubicon , on October 19, 2009 at 9:49 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). Reply Customer Development – Not Just for Web Startups » Biotech by the Bay , on May 1, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: [.] The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Main takeaways from “Into the Metaverse” The event opened with a presentation by Hamza Khan , a Partner at McKinsey & Company and author of the “ Value creation in the metaverse ” report shared it will take time for VR to become mainstream and enable “fully immersive 3D worlds” but there’s a ton of innovation happening in web 2.5

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. I am currently a young entreprenuer working on my first web-based start-up and I am using the Customer Development model Ash uses. Reply drewsing , on December 7, 2009 at 11:12 am Said: Wow.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. This second point negatively impacts many vertical service provider markets (such as pediatricians) where customers are actually prefer a monogamous relationship.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

All this leads to a complex web of interactions that are ripe for intelligent analysis. In the late 1990s I was investing in enterprise integration, partner networks and business intelligence – the consumer web was still very much in its infancy.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. 20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. BTW, I personally would _never_ “find&# a founder over the web. Thanks Steve!

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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. Though technology tools and Web 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said. ideas (e.g.

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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. bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to). link] Nivi. ” chris.

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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. These steps will help to increase transparency and ensure effective cooperation between entrepreneurs, investors, and state agencies in the field of venture capital investments in Russian online projects.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Posted at 12:28 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink Comments Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. I don't want to see any more of you with crappy business guys ruining your great ideas, ok? Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. All Rights Reserved.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the case of social software all the evidence suggests that the investment theme is strong and there will be more winners in this space, but the next generation will work hard to differentiate themselves from their forbears by specialising in different process areas or distinct verticals.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

We plan to have the many large dishes assembled for Moon Bounce, connected with live feeds on line, so EME, so the public will be able to be listened to from the web. Maybe in your history, what we do could be known as commemorating “3 Letter Echoes&# instead of Eches of Apollo, our current 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? We’re about to ship next week.”

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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.) Scalable: The goal is not to get one customer but many – and to get those customers so each additional customer adds incremental revenue and profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. Or if they do they should do so without raising venture capital so that they can still be acquired for reasonable prices.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Filed under: Ardent , Family/Career , Technology « Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development Customer Development: Past, Present, Future » 17 Responses Mark Essel , on November 19, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Haha, closure is well worth the effort when an entertaining tale can be shared!

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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. million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers. Innovid raised $4.1

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) you know they’re expensive in time, dollars and resources.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. 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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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). Apple Internet iphone IPO marketplaces social networking Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Commission Marketplace online marketplaces pricing'

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. But on the other hand they have more time.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains.

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