Business Model Customer Technical Cofounder Vertical 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model. The Adventure of a Lifetime.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.
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Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Siebel—Tom Siebel.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development.
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