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. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

However, that doesn't mean you should ignore cost or quality. 14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority. corporations start to shift more dollars toward lower-cost developer hubs.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Social Media Vertical 122

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

CPL One is an integrated online advertising platform for affiliate marketers that partners with leading CPL (stands for cost-per-lead) advertisers to help members create and run profitable (potentially) ad campaigns with ease. Select a vertical and allot a budget, and then choose an image that fits your new ad campaign.

Technical Review 136

Technical Review Advertising Affiliate Vertical 136

Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth. India for the world” has traditionally focused on outsourcing and leveraging cost advantages, from customer service to product development.

India 87

India LP Silicon Valley Vertical 87

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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Technical Review Technology Vertical Cost 96

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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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

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.

Technical Review 215

Technical Review Software Review Cloud Vertical 215

ReadWriteStart

JULY 4, 2023

The vehicle produced by Alef Automotive and rightly given the name “Model A” combines the capabilities of vertical takeoff and landing with the ability to drive on highways and park in the same manner as a conventional car.

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Technical Review Mobile Vertical California 150

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. Independence. Flexibility.

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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. In fact, they’re no longer only relevant vertical, either. This has been an issue for well over a decade. via Chartbeat). Image Source.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

Incubator 188

Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The article doesn’t comment on whether the 3D printed crowns are cheaper than traditional alternatives, but with 3D printing costs halving each year if it isn’t now it soon will be. Then before long all dentists will be using a system like this and an entire mini-vertical will have been transformed.

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Vertical Audio Venture Capital Channel 142

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Most dev shops are good at one technology over another, or focus on UX or even a vertical like healthcare. To get a sense for how much it costs to build what you want, get itemized quotes from multiple dev shops. By being especially good at one thing, dev shops can narrow down who the right customer is for them. Get multiple quotes.

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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. We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review North America Seattle Deal Flow 124

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. The contest cost Quixey about $10,000 each month, but that’s far less than what it might cost to hire a good engineer through a recruiter. Onshore immigrant employees in Canada.

Canada 153

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 153

The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

And when we say ‘niche’ we’re not referring to things like iGaming verticals. In most cases they cost thousands of pounds. What’s more, they’ll also have to contend with their white-label underlings of which there are thousands. Many wannabe operators try to get around these challenges by focusing on specific gambling niches.

Affiliate 91

Affiliate Software Review Technical Review Startup 91

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

MQL cost significantly increased. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. Our findings also suggested, marketing-qualified leads didn’t always convert to sales opportunities as expected.

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

Manufacturing automation, reducing hardware costs, and the upcoming 5G expand the possibilities of robotics, improving how aerospace and defense enterprises design, manufacture, and roll-out their products and services. The post-Coronavirus world is now experiencing a complex change affecting all the industries and verticals.

Global 179

Global Technical Review Analytics Mobile 179

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Using free tools like Google’s Keyword Planner and Google Search Console can help you identify which search queries users are typing in to find your business and where gaps in content exist for your vertical. Once you have this list of emails, tools like MailChimp will allow you to re-engage these users fairly easily and for a very low cost.

Small Business 160

Small Business Technical Review Social Media SEO 160

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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The SaaS model, with its inherent low customer acquisition costs (CAC) and ease of deployment, makes it possible for companies to be successful when focusing on the SMB market, as well as niche verticals. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential.

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Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? If you don’t have a researched, written strategy in place, you’re doing something wrong – and it might cost you. . For example, you may have a plan to “grow,” but what does that even mean? How much growth is reasonable to achieve? Dead Weight.

Startup 127

Startup Retention Acquisition Agile 127

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Shoedazzle*, Bonobos*, J Hilburn, Warby Parker, IndoChino etc) are vertically integrated. Vertically integrated companies can take a lot of the costs out of the system and provide a much more compelling value to the consumer while still making an attractive margin. Lightspeed portfolio companies. apparel Ecommerce'

Vertical 109

Vertical eCommerce Portfolio Channel 109

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

Vertical 128

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

Vertical 122

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 122

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

For example, “flying taxi” startup Joby Aviation aligned its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with the Air Force’s stated interest in advancing the market for air mobility vehicles. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

Artificial Inteligence 326

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 326

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. That could be a market vertical, or that could be an audience. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists. Dentists would be market vertical.

Vertical 46

Vertical Java Software Developers Software Development 46

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

An example of a Sapient smart outlet As Parks told the Philadelphia Citizen , “Think about how cool it is to know how much it costs to run your home entertainment system and be able to switch it on and off?—?now If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

Philadelphia 62

Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 117

BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

Despite the amazing productivity gains from open source, AWS, microservices and other new technologies, we have seen the time to launch extending and the cost of getting a minimally viable product (MVP) out the door increasing. Cost of getting message to market has increased due to the noise from the many competitors in a particular space.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Open Source 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

These are good avenues for finding very smart people in your vertical, particularly global or small market candidates who may not be visible otherwise. The contest cost Quixey about $10,000 each month, but that’s far less than what it might cost to hire a good engineer through a recruiter. Onshore immigrant employees in Canada.

Canada 67

Canada Acquisition Hiring Vertical 67

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Vertical integration is a strategy where a firm owns or runs several stages of production, including taking raw materials and turning them into finished products. Therefore, firms that adopt vertical integration own numerous parts of the supply chain. Improved coordination and reduced cost. Reduced Transaction Costs.

Vertical 100

Vertical Technical Review Distribution Operations 100

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Those of us in AI would love to see GPU compute costs come down, and unfortunately, the success of blockchain-based technologies isn’t doing us any favors on that front. However, we’ve just started to see a decrease in GPU cost due to compute farms buying up graphics cards from failed crypto miners.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In many cases, the monthly savings is greater than the monthly cost. . It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. By turning capital investments into operating expenses, the platform will unlock all sorts of creative financing solutions and increase the adoption of energy projects.

Stealth 148

Stealth Vertical Portfolio Finance 148

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Worse yet, collecting all that data comes with a cost, and it’s not cheap. As one reviewer shared: “Cost can skyrocket pretty quickly. They say that necessity is the mother of all invention, and since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, no other vertical has been so severely impacted quite like travel and hospitality.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

So my primary goal for the next year is keeping our computing infrastructure costs at bay, especially as we are delivering more and more AI-powered processing-intensive product features to our clients, such as image recognition. Our business is all about social media data analysis, and the amount of that data almost doubles each year!

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 119