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. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for? If so, where?
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2009
The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 2, 2021
This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. They had to fight for the right to compete. We had to take hardcore action.
Steve Blank
MAY 4, 2009
I loved to compete against these companies. Martin , on May 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm Said: Naive question: How do you handle the situation when Sales is happier selling an existing product that has a smaller but already established market than a new product with a non-existent but potentially much larger market?
Start Up Blog
APRIL 29, 2013
And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. was the worst ever.
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