Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

You’ve launched your new restaurant and you’re starting to see customers, but running a restaurant is serious business, especially because your financial livelihood is most likely tied up in startup costs. . Opportunities and threats: Are there any entrepreneur opportunities or resources offered by the government or local bodies?

Technical Review 86

Technical Review SBA Merger Customer 86

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, I’d love to hear what she has to say on the entrepreneurship and government. Do you see Geospiza implemented on a larger scale?

Denver 48

Denver Startup Austin Vertical 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

It has ways that fundamentally changes the operations and the ways you deliver value and creating opportunities to both increase value and simultaneously lower costs through various kind of efficiency opportunities. And then perhaps even more fundamental, we're seeing things like what we call the de construction of the value chain.

ChatGPT 69

ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Technology 69

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2019

After a couple of weeks, you figure out that your inbox is bombarded with email of different business verticals. It’s fast, it’s relatively simple to set up, and it’s one of the most cost effective ways to market your business and drive customers to your website. Email marketing is regulated and governed by Federal law of the US.

Email 100

Email Marketing Advertising Government 100

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

Silicon Valley 155

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 155

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Homebuyer (Cincinnati, OH) Dan Green, CEO Homebuyer is a lead nurture system for mortgage lenders that reduces customer acquisition costs and increases per-loan profits. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Repaid 12-36 months with ability to prepay at reduced cost. Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Capital need of up to $1.5M over next 12 months. Facility sizes of 2-5x MRR .

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. While that may seem arbitrary, the muscles associated with frowning have been linked to the amygdalia - the area of your brain responsible for governing emotions, forming new memories, and associating them with emotional events.

Conversion 133

Conversion Georgia Technical Review Design 133

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Government and university sites? SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. That context can help sites rank in a vertical like recipes, where search engines can’t differentiate a good chocolate chip cookie from a life-changing one. Individual sites?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. laughter) Kappos: The current fees ($10-$15K) are way below our real cost ($30-$40K). Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. we just need more funding].

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the last 3 decades, IT has evolved from providing infrastructure and hardware to a more strategic role that is intimately woven with business verticals as shown below: - 1980s to 1990s: Servers, Storage, and Communications Infrastructure. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc.

Technology 174

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here’s how we got here, what it’s going to cost us, and where we’ll end up. Car companies argued that talking safety would scare off customers, or that the added cost of safety features would put them in a competitive price disadvantage. These depended on the invention of low-cost, automotive-grade computers and sensors.

Technical Review 298

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 298

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 13, 2015

I believe most of the greenfield opportunities in SaaS today are beyond the traditional horizontal/vertical enterprise software areas. Traditionally, selling to governments has been associated with long sales cycles and conservative buyers. What are the areas that haven’t seen a modern piece of software in years?

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Government Demand Distribution 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S.

Silicon Valley 194

Silicon Valley Stealth RSS California 194

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Zune vs. Ipod.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.”

Vertical 156

Vertical Silicon Valley Intellectual Property RSS 156

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

On #1, these are verticals that haven’t been touched by the Internet as directly because of some combination of: - high cost of sales vs revenue. - government regulation. Platforms and enabling services powering/capitalizing on the next Internet revolution. old school / conservative buyers. immature distribution channels.

Vertical 57

Vertical Distribution Internet Government 57

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. Chip Foundries.

Taiwan 436

Taiwan IP Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 436

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Of course the Russian aristocracy wanted to keep it to themselves and for several centuries it was only available in limited quantities and at great cost. The Zoetrope is a turntable device that creates the illusion of motion through a series of drawings on the inside of the cylinder which are viewed through vertical slits.

Poland 68

Poland New York City Russia Flash 68

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Governments and organizations are increasingly looking for ways to promote innovation, and this will bring more opportunities for entrepreneurs. This trend is going to continue, both as a way for individuals to make more money and have more control and for companies to cut the costs of a full-time employee.

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Global 108

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google’s USP might be in the way they connect people with information, whereas Amazon’s might be providing whatever product you need quickly, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible. We work with different types of customers, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

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. So it was like the ultimate challenge a company had to fight for. Now we’re going to 2021.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

But you need to remain great and investable while also managing your costs, extending your runway, tightening your operating plan, and so on. Do you understand your cost structure and can you manage to a forecastable growth rate. Not buying low quality growth. This is challenging but definitely not impossible.

Valuation 116

Valuation Cap Table Startup Later Stage 116

Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley PR Technical Review RSS 210

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Reed Hastings of Netflix has said, “It’s not a strategy if failing in it doesn’t actually cost you something real.” Pivots can be high-cost, but they can also be high-reward. The average customer acquisition cost of advertising on Yahoo or Netscape was well over $40. HOW DO I KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO PIVOT?

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

There Ought to be a Law Nowadays there are laws that allow you to back out of a time-share condo contract, or used car purchase after seven days because even the government believes there are times when grown adults lose their minds and stand up and yell “Yes I believe, sign me up!”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. Do you know how much it cost 2 days of “holidays” for the company? 31) Opportunity Cost. 18) Better Person. 29) Stay at Home.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. The downside of OpenAI is the cost, platform dependency and limitations of its API.

Generative AI 109

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source 109

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. It’s worth noting the environmental cost of the diamond trade; for every carat of mined diamond 1750 tones of earth have to be moved [7].

Green 96

Green Technology Europe Operations 96

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs.

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I And Stoddard notes that at NetApp they use proper governance to facilitate faster learning: “We use an enterprise executive architecture committee, with all the leaders of every NetApp function — marketing, sales, HR, operations, finance, and so on.

Algorithm 174

Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 174

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. When he returned to Boston he put together a business plan to build a water powered mill that required a $400k investment – $100k for the factory and $300k for start-up costs.

Silicon Valley 178

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 178

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The JAIC is a tiny team, yet we have a product directorate with 32 products that we’re building across six verticals – all the way from warfighter health to Joint warfighting to Business Process automation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance. Nand Mulchandani.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 417

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million!

Artificial Inteligence 422

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 422