Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Watch this short clip (mixed with the normal banter between the hosts): The Race to Intimacy (credit: All In podcast) The new gen AI search companies A number of new startups are trying jump on the generative AI search wagon. We’re moving away from the 10 blue links (and sometimes 10 blue ads) and moving into something different.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Investor Sees Opportunity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Use content advertising to fight rising costs. Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. What these challenges make clear is that your advertising needs to do three things: 1. Grab attention. Build trust. Offer value.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. But none of that can happen if you have an impediment to growth – an invisible (or perhaps visible) force keeping your startup from creating the momentum it needs to keep growing. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? The Competitive Edge. Dead Weight.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

So is it worth setting up an online bingo site as a gaming startup business, given the volatility of the market? And when we say ‘niche’ we’re not referring to things like iGaming verticals. It’s a bit tough for a gaming startup business. In most cases they cost thousands of pounds. Crowded Marketplace.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The primary challenge (ignoring disruption) is to find ways to better service their customers at lower and lower cost. The focus of the management team is largely internal – how do we cut cost without impacting the offering? Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, so therefore need a different approach.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Startups shouldn’t act smug about this. Even for startups, it takes years for a new product to become good enough to demand many millions of dollars in revenue.). Even if this costs more than 2 years of in-house assembly, it’s still worth it, due to accelerating revenue growth due to up-sales and market-differentiation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. However, that doesn't mean you should ignore cost or quality. Vertical videos let potential customers Know, Like, and Trust brands faster, which can increase their reach.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to many providers’ tariff plans, the more services a user consumes, the more cost-effective it is for the service provider to charge per user. You can increase or decrease resources, use vertical or horizontal scaling – as you wish. Good news for IT startups planning to develop on cloud platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. Tags: entrepreneur startup IBM PC Don Estridge business. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

This new construction technology reduces maintenance costs, extends the structure’s service life, and makes it much safer over the long-term. 3D printed houses are expected to considerably cut construction costs and reduce the number of construction workers required. Bendable concrete is much more resilient. Frozen Smoke (Aerogel).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 4, 2023

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a California startup company called Alef Automotive the first-ever airworthiness permit for a fully electric flying car that is capable of both flying and driving on roads. This milestone event marks the beginning of a new era in the transportation industry.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ?? Billion in VC funding.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. Organize events in your vertical. AskAnything.VC

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. So, low cost plus autonomy means you can theoretically have drones doing lots of stuff. So how do you invest behind that?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2021

In the process, it is creating Billions of revenue and cost-efficiency impact for several industries. . The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT. IoT’s impact on healthcare.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Their scale and resources enable them to innovate rapidly, making it challenging for startups to compete directly in this space. If startups do decide to compete on this ground floor, then they need to raise billions of dollars, most of which seems more like a Capex expense. Native GenAi companies should leverage that cost advantage.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Celo : An open platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost. In addition, our existing startups in this space continue to do well. Lolli : gives customers bitcoin when they shop online (n.b. This helps encourage the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency ). Bio/healthcare.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

I was interviewed by TheMarker (Hebrew only) on why Israeli startups haven’t been part of the mega funding rounds in AI. I thought it’s a good timing to elaborate on where I see opportunities for Israeli startups in this rapidly growing space. billion, a 73% YoY drop, according to a new report by Viola.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses. There is also a scope to offer value-added services to your customers or clients at nominal additional costs. Clearly outline how the partnership would be carried out and etch out a proper costs-benefits analysis for each partner.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million! Older AI chips incur huge energy consumption costs that quickly balloon to unaffordable levels. But What Is It?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. MQL cost significantly increased.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. Here are a few examples: 1. Look for acquired teams.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. The Denver startup ecosystem is generous and supportive?—?truly

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

The Israeli startups building the Metaverse (Source: Remagine Ventures, via Calcalist ). To get a sense of the breadth of opportunities that can be attractive for gaming (content and infrastructure) entrepreneurs and metaverse startups, just take a look at the A16Z list below. There is also a growing ecosystem of startups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Who does it serve?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. This case is perhaps the most common of all, especially among tech startups. In fact, they’re no longer only relevant vertical, either. via Chartbeat).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

And he recognized it was making his startup feel and act like a big ponderous company. Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. The same is true in your company.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 16, 2015

People in the startup ecosystem have been heralding the “unbundling of Craigslist” graphic for years now. The conventional wisdom is to say that horizontal marketplaces will be replaced by vertical marketplaces. However, the reality is that many verticals will be better served by horizontal marketplaces for a long time to come.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). In fact, Sharetribe , a marketplace builder, estimates that your first-year costs could be as low as $2,000 and 20 hours of work per week. This includes the cost of a domain name, a logo, some development work. But they didn’t all start off that way.

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