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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. New York is a multi-industry town. We have media startups, healthcare startups, real estate tech startups, fintech startups—every kind of startup you can imagine.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Oh, one more thing.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In fact, it feels like old news, even a year after a this New York Times feature on the region. With SAP’s global reach, merging experience-level data with SAP’s own data sets across other enterprise verticals is in line with the giant’s behavior in M&A. And, every year, it doesn’t materialize that way.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. A few days later Gordon became a founder. We were going to be guessing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2011

. “We had very strong relationships with brands we had worked with for several years prior, so within our first month of business they had joined our roster,&# recalls co-founder and president Drummond. Azione’s name – which means action in Italian – is indicative of how they approach public relations.

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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

Assam Alzookery , Intvo founder and CEO, explains, “Our product solves the lack of communication between drivers and pedestrians. Alzookery is a University of Michigan graduate, but found inspiration in watching pedestrians and traffic interact in New York City. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. That’s what the goal of the Nike+ Accelerator program is.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Sh e is the Founder and CEO of the Intrigue Agency. Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. SOMEDAY is Not a Day in the Week. This is John Jantsch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2010

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. founder Justin Kan went old school and gained traction through coverage in newspapers (remember those?).

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Which of your client verticals are your champions? In which verticals do you experience smooth, seamless sales processes, instead of arduous uphill battles? Dan Englander is the founder of Sales Schema , where he helps marketing agencies grow by way of done-for-you lead generation and sales consulting. Who is most receptive?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

That may not mean a permanent move, but you have to be willing to immerse yourself for months with like-minded founders in a setting that provides added value to your venture. If your goal is to star in the movies, you’d certainly punch your ticket in Hollywood and New York, right?

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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. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. Billy Durant - Founder General Motors More in the next posts. There’s the Alfred P. Who was he?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

d Communications Founder, Loretta Markevics, saw an opportunity to, as she says, “turn quaranlemons into quarantade,” and to support those who were doing the same. We visited many cities but spent the most time in New York, Miami, Austin, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Palm Springs, San Diego, and soon, LA.

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Rob Go

JUNE 26, 2012

Most founders here are just worse at distribution, and often don’t appreciate how much of a deficiency we have as an ecosystem. We don’t know when a new feature on Facebook or Apple policy might have important implications on those platforms that one coud exploit to their advantage. It’s just harder.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

The early images on Fab’s landing page were simply pictures of his New York apartment. Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. That aesthetic took decades to develop. Sarah Lacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A big thank you to my friend Josh Webb who provided the transcription for This Week in Venture Capital with Tige Savage , Managing Director and co-founder of Revolution.

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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. Often, investors miss out on vertically focused companies like RigUp as they find themselves overly anxious about TAM (total available market). NEW EMERGING MARKETPLACES.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. Founded by CEO Meir (Iri) Zohar, eXalate has offices in New York and Kfar Saba, Israel. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. My company became the most important thing in my life.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

From left to right, echoAR founders, Alon Grinshpoon CEO, Ben Pedazur CTO, and Koren Grinshpoon COO. A finalist for SXSW Pitch 2020 in the category of Augmented & Virtual Reality , echoAR co-founder and CEO Alon Grinshpoon will pitch at 3:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 14), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

From left to right, echoAR founders, Alon Grinshpoon CEO, Ben Pedazur CTO, and Koren Grinshpoon COO. A finalist for SXSW Pitch 2020 in the category of Augmented & Virtual Reality , echoAR co-founder and CEO Alon Grinshpoon will pitch at 3:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 14), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. What would a founder who built city guide software know about space travel?” What would a couple of adtech founders know about curing cancer?” And then I disappeared.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As Graham, now Founder and CEO, says, “we are the next-gen hardware and software platform for the $550B global beauty industry.” Every founder will tell you there’s an infinite number of trials and tribulations. It’s a helpful super power as a founder because I interact with a lot of different people in many different scenarios.

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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. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) And founders don’t apply for jobs. I love Google. I think its one of the smartest companies out there. They found companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Creative and nicely done – New York is destroyed by 8 bit invaders – [link]. The Need To Refocus From Time To Time – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Creative and nicely done – New York is destroyed by 8 bit invaders – [link]. The Need To Refocus From Time To Time – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Satya and I hypothesize that New York will be an important geography for us so we’re spending quality time leaning in. Already have a bunch of local friends; critical mass of startups in verticals matching our Bottom Up Economy theme; on-the-ground frequently (I grew up here and Satya lived in Manhattan for several years).

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