Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They were one of the first companies to sell an external disk drive for the original Mac; they had the first “color paint programs” for the Mac; and when the Mac was just black and white they had the first color graphics boards and large screen color monitors for the Mac.

Silicon Valley 165

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2010, just three groups ( WarnerMedia , Netflix and The Walt Disney Company ) ploughed $250 billion into programming. Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Is it only one exciting vertical within the broader umbrella.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Action #1: Analytics Program Maturity Diagnostic. Which quadrant reflects the maturity of your analytics program? Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. Our last vertical slice includes metrics that measure performance across customer segments, divisions and channels, among other elements.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee Muhl, Managing Director, Growthink's New Media and Entertainment Practice Lee Muhl heads Growthink's entertainment-media vertical, encompassing the making and distribution of films, television programming, games, new media content and numerous related distribution platforms, technologies and methodologies including theatrical exhibition, DVD, PPV-VOD, (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

oDesk enables companies to easily provision programming talent from all corners of the globe. Another repeated mistake is attacking verticals where a satisfactory supplier “match” end’s the customer’s need to re-enter the market in search of an alternative. Economic Advantages vs. the Status Quo.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. And their branding and demand creation activities were going to occur primarily outside of Australia.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Regarding the Atlas Developer Beta, John Gruber says that “Access to the beta program is $20″ — this is the new way and I like it. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , FilmChain is the first collection service to use the blockchain technology to provide payment automation, lower the costs of film revenue collection and distribution, and significantly speed up the money flow end-to-end. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Governor of Colorado was there promoting Colorado as a hub for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. ETHDenver , which took place Feb.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. STOIKY is his callsign.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Specify the number of horizontal cells in the main area row and the number of vertical cells in the column. When fillable PDF forms are distributed, they are automatically checked by Acrobat. If there is no “Submit” button, the program adds a “Submit Form” button to the document’s message bar.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

More About The Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered By Duct Tape Marketing: Check it out here. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. Well, I think that something that should be thought about with any content is distribution. Learn more about Brent’s business – UGURUS. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

It doesn't have to just be a vertical. And so I think within whether it's, it's choosing a market vertical or horizontal or a fixed offer, like you have to find that element in your business, that lows, common denominator, that atomic unit for scale. We're gonna build websites for a lot of different Shopify stores. I've got an idea.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program. It's just not worth it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” In the meantime we are narrowing our focus to three verticals (bioinformatics, connected devices, security/fraud) and are choosing our clients very carefully to tell the best success stories we can.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sounds like a great program, doesn't it? And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. Great episode. Listen to Nudge wherever you get your podcasts.

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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.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to HubSpot , demand generation is “the umbrella of marketing programs that get customers excited about your company’s product and services.”. Create and distribute content to those segments. For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand consideration.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. These brands also need a new way to distribute their messages in an unobtrusive way that can’t be fast-forwarded through or hidden by ad blockers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing. Marketing is at its peak.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lean companies focus on building an MVP as quickly as possible using minimal resources (like “hackathons” where programmers compete or collaborate in sprints to design a program by the end of the event). One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Take Codecademy’s strategic testing program , for example.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We’re actually a distributed team, so we’re in both SF and LA. We have a distributed team for a reason, which is that if you cut your travel time to work completely, you actually have a lot more time to work efficiently. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Francisco. This would have to be self-driving cars.

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Technical Review San Francisco Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 65

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

The competition back then wasn’t other spreadsheet templates, but books, classes, and blank spreadsheets that people could program. Key marketing tactics including pricing, messaging, and distribution, while others are about positioning your business against the background of the other offerings. There is always competition.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Andres Moran.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I hate business plan competitions. I now think that was a mistake. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Were they vertically integrated ? Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. If so, why? Did they dominate one or two areas?

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Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

Often, this means specializing in a single vertical market or industry. Leadership is distributed. Instead, they develop programs to partner with their customers in the process of continuous problem solving. A formal customer relations program is the first step. Should you expand your marketing programs?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

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