Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.” is quite good. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. With 317 million people the U.S.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I am a heavy user of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Another VC said, “I’m a heavy user of Streak , which is a CRM that lives in your Gmail and allows you to create contact pipelines, snooze / track e-mails, save snippets, etc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Versatile is an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. .

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. We have a huge audience of a hundred million monthly active users using either our mobility services or delivery services. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. It was fun watching it happen.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Simple editing.

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Babbling VC

MAY 20, 2010

This is glaringly obvious especially when pitching your business plan to me. One thing to always keep in mind when looking at your market and analyzing it for competition is to think of your user. Ask yourself how your user will put your product or service to work. Be it a consumer internet site or some sort of software.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. I have an idea years ago, and now it has became a business plan, I shall share my plan instead of original idea right?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

At today's roundtable I offered a sneak preview into the One Million by One Million Premium Lounge we have just unveiled to a small group of core users. Again, the right go-to-market strategy for this business is also to specifically focus on particular segments, particular use cases and define a go-to-market strategy accordingly.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin. The first thing captured and wrestled to paper is the company’s vision.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. The housing project was full of drug users and people exploiting the welfare system.

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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. >> flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. I’ve shipped device drivers for disruptive operating systems, 3d renderers for new communication tools, physics simulation for networked games, message queuing systems for massive user counts, and more. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable.

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