Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. Sloan had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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SBA Technical Review Startup 124

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

14- Demand for new products Photo Credit: Beth Rivera With technology, almost everyone has access to an abundance of information and options. Any entrepreneur who can provide a service that is in demand has a fighting chance. Thanks to Aaron Green, Essential Home & Garden ! #14- Thanks to Mark Aselstine, Wine Club Review ! #27-

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. But is the opposite true as well?

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Generative AI Media Artificial Inteligence Vertical 142

Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The ability to turn numbers and insights into stories is why Brent Sykes says data storytelling skills are essential for data scientists and why demand for data analysts is projected to grow 23% by 2031 , much faster than the average for all occupations. Consider what your audience cares about. Line charts. Do present authority.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed. based teachers.

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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. would look in each of the verticals. Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2016

Last year, we quietly invested in the seed round of Booster Fuels, a then-stealth on-demand gas delivery service. Today, we’re excited to officially announce our investment as they raise their Series A financing from Maveron, Madrona, and RRE, and other invests, as well as expand into Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The same report from research and policy advisory organisation ‘Start-up Genome’ says that globally, 65 per cent of start-ups have less than six months of runway – most of whom will face a double dip recession, with sales dropping up to 80% depending on the vertical. Businesses could have anywhere from half a dozen to hundreds of KPIs.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation. Mental health services have been in demand from the very start of this pandemic. Mental health. Another player in this space is Ready. Direct-to-door medicine.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. We have invested using demand dividends (such as here ), redeemable shares (such as here / here ), revenue-share investing, and conventional debt/mezzanine structures.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Richard: We have the largest network of on-demand CPAs in the world, and when you do that you can do a variety of work, get it done relatively quickly and for less money than compared to traditional tax-shops and CPA firms, and you do it virtually. Magazine’ Inc. TSM: How is Taxfyle impacting the world and your clients?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 Has the U.S. movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

The cars on the road may be familiar to him, but now, he can also magically hail a car on-demand or pay ludicrously low prices to get from place to place by sharing rides with one or two other passengers. Source: Google Finance). Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips.

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Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 245

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 Has the U.S. movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. While the lack of proper access to financing is one of the premiere inhibitors of farm growth, it’s one of the least addressed.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Marketing Week adds a bit more context: “Put simply, brands or agencies use a demand-side platform (DSP) to decide which impressions to buy and how much to pay for them, while publishers use a supply-side platform (SSP) to sell ad space to brands. These two platforms are then matched up in real time.”.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

The pandemic year was an unprecedented one for the world, and all business verticals suffered setbacks in their own ways. As a result, the demand for commercial real estate has shifted towards industrial and last-mile logistics facilities. Rental spaces went vacant, and sales took a nosedive. Flexibility Will Be Important.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Did the VC’s like your team ? Do they believe you have a big enough vision and market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

There's a lot more demand than supply right now. So, you know, there needs to be a new discussion with the finance team around looking at quality, you know, making sure there's not fraud, but saying, look, as long as we are getting what we want. Like that happens in this channel every day. Cause there isn't a barometer of talent.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. And as the demand for customer intelligence increases, you can take the next best step to make a sale based on your history in the sales cycle.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

There’s an increasing desire to solve real-world problems, and the demand is only going to grow as we see more use cases, funding and innovation within the industry. Another movement we’re seeing right now is DeFi, or Decentralized Finance. While regular software handles data, DeFi handles money (digital money).

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San Francisco Cofounder Colorado Security 97

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Informational content , often found on sites like SlideShare, Zillow and automotive blogs is the sharing of information that is near the top of the funnel for demand creation.

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Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. The story had universal appeal, and we spun the tale and keep the buzz going.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. the Untouched Vertical. 3) Raise capital. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources. Private Equity Software and Services Directory.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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. On-demand services for the enterprise: The on-demand economy has had a great run over the last few years. What are the areas that haven’t seen a modern piece of software in years?

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Sales Cycle Government Demand Distribution 60

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. 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. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 41

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I’m an individual investor in AngelList (pre-Homebrew) and remain excited about opening up supply and demand within early stage investing. This model applies to any vertical or expertise – imagine a Syndicate of 10 great growth hackers – would you not salivate to have them in your deal?

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Here is the full presentation if you want to dive deeper: Bessemer 5 Cs of SaaS Finance View more presentations from Philippe Botteri. Yahoo Finance. Raj Kapoor.

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

A major launch announcement can make a lot of noise in moment, but it’s more important to focus on generating continuous demand than your 15 minutes of fame. Likewise, fundraising announcements can drive investor interest for future financing rounds, but I’ve found it’s usually better to just stay under the radar and build the company.

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Founder Due Diligence Vertical Early Stage 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

For example, our company finances renewable energy installations (solar, fuel cell, etc.) while if it’s (b) we can shovel money out the door creating demand and sell into it. and I am not sure if that is (a) a new market or (b) a segment of the existing market for energy.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ , a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management solutions for eDiscovery, records and compliance management, today announced that it has closed $10 million in new investment financing and expanded its management team in preparation for accelerated growth.

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Vertical Early Stage Cofounder Channel 59

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

However, it seems now SMEs are adopting these on a much more voluntary basis than ever before – spurred on by, as we have mentioned previously, consumer demand. 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.

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