Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. And while the Soviets are fighting the Germans in massive land battles in eastern Europe, until the allies invade Western Europe in June 1944, the only way the U.S. Bear with me as this history takes you from the skies of Europe to Fred Terman.)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am working to develop deeper relationships with LitLife’s school and district partners to ensure that our literacy consulting work is as effective as possible. I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. Photo Credit: Nomi Ellenson. Thanks to Veronica Hanson, Vacay Visionary ! #6-

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 billion people.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Russia currently has the largest online market in Europe. As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. In a similar vein, the Russian Venture Company is a government fund of funds, and a development institution.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

Every extra set of features that you added that served one narrow use case end up being features you need to support in future releases adding complexity to future development, usability testing, regression testing, etc. We are giving a version of our product to a team in Europe who will start selling our product internationally.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

2018 is the year of TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, the largest tech festival in Europe, and backed by the mayor of London. Learn how this revolutionary technology will transform industry verticals. Developer Summit. Best Network Development of the Year Award (Operator Only). ” TechXLR8 Tracks.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

But Gade’s and Paka’s vision wasn’t simply to leverage AI for a vertical application. And, looking ahead, imagine a world where these algorithms get stronger, smarter, and more intuitive, to the point where they develop their own intuition in making decisions. Enter, Fiddler Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2017, Radiobotics recently received approval to sell its products across Europe. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning. SaaS startups need to have a VC that understands the SaaS model, including market development strategies, upsell dynamics, sales incentive plan, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the discussions I’ve had with Marcos Galperin , the founder and CEO of Mercado Libre , have helped me understand how the lessons of entrepreneurship differ in developing economies. And by doing so, you build a vertically integrated marketplace with a much deeper value stack. The same holds true for payments.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. If you are a content producer or a freemium app or game developer, you would know, instantly, what I am talking about. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. or Europe-based medical device companies that are tapping into this trend. and Indian companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Your lead generation VA will be researching prospects according to the plan you develop. Best lead generation talent : The Philippines and Eastern Europe. Once you develop a shortlist of applicants, send them messages and ask to follow up questions. Which of your client verticals are your champions? Who is most receptive?

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

And, Drover announced $26M in funding to take its car subscription marketplace to Europe. Flow is the next-generation blockchain developed by Dapper Labs (creators of CryptoKitties ). No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. Meanwhile the U.S. monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

They bring over 25 years of experience in alignment strategy deployment for large and small organizations across Europe and North America. Improve reporting structure support (vertical alignment). They summarize alignment as an embodiment of seven initiatives, as follows: Define a unified focus and direction, shared by all.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. 25% of the value of the 10 public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in Europe and $0.9B in Europe and $0.9B in the US, $2.6B

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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. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 50 New Resources and Tools for Web Developers – [link]. Scaling startups - [link]. On average, U.S.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

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. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America. and I wrote a white paper in Europe as well.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

billion round into inflection as well as smaller rounds, like the $105M seed round into 4-week old Mistral, a French startup developing LLMs to rival OpenAI. AI Vertical SaaS – As mentioned by Index Ventures in a recent post , there’s a rise in AI native SaaS companies, building automations for specific industries.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Start by developing your strategy and build every campaign from that. Who can argue with that?”. What do you want them to say about you to their friends and family? Be visible so that your customers know what to expect.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Software developer Patrick McKenzie aka @Patio11 (easily one of my favorite marketers to follow and learn from) asserts that 40-60% of users who sign up for a free trial of almost every software or SaaS application will use it once and never come back. Don’t limit your testing to flight risk customers. The Execution. image source.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

It was suggested as early as 2010, in a report by the European Commission that SMEs accounted for approximately 64% of the industrial pollution in Europe[3]. Dr Ben Todd became interested in developing low carbon energy solutions during his gap year working at the theatre. After all, there 5.7

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. Gamingo develops sports entertainment games in the fantasy sports genre, as well as other categories. . Guerillapps is a vertical social gaming platform targeting lifestyle & health moms; launching with the Trash Tycoon , a Facebook game for moms.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Develop a compelling narrative to take the audience on a journey 4. improved marketing campaigns, new product innovations, or personal development). Develop a compelling narrative to take the audience on a journey. Who is your story for? Find a story your audience cares about 3. Consider what your audience cares about.

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