Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Just like revenues are the right metric for businesses that aim to sell products directly, one can probably deduce a global metric for other types of businesses. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keep teaching! Order Here. Now In Print!

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. PTA Portals.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

We’ve seen this dramatically accelerator around the world through the Global Accelerator Network and when I wrote Startup Communities: Building a Startup Ecosystem in Your City , much of what I used as the basis for the Boulder Thesis came from my experiences here.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. Last May, Boris said that we shouldn’t expect an Uber in every vertical. So why did we invest?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. IBM’s global research lab packs a lot of cognitive computing power, including AI/ML solutions for elderly care and composing music. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Even in 2006, when I joined Bessemer Venture Partners, there was still a lot of skepticism in the Silicon Valley around SaaS (one of my first blog post in 2006 was titled: “W hy I disagree with Tony Zingale — CEO of Mercury Interactive — on the future of SaaS "). My SaaS focus at Accel Partners is the natural continuity of this path.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. This time in what would become Silicon Valley. Reply David Locke , on May 12, 2010 at 7:01 am Said: Yes, the Durant meme moved to Silicon Valley, as did the tradition of boards ousting founders. There’s the Alfred P. Order Here.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

He has run some experiments within the entrepreneurship training vertical, and has seen success when he has brought on known thought leaders. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy. Gagan has about 150 completed courses on the site so far, and about 10 of those are monetizing.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T Beyond the giants, the momentum continues for the public companies in our global cloud Index.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Qualitas is trying to close various gaps related to imaging in the industrial automation space, and has use cases in a variety of areas from bottling to labeling, and across verticals such as automotive to pharmaceuticals. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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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. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. It's just not worth it.

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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. Entrepreneurs in San Antonio will drive up to Austin for a day of office hours with guest mentors visiting from Silicon Valley. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. The Smart People Can Denounce Bravo's Silicon Valley All They Want. “It’s hard to create a company like this as a kid,” he says.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” Thank you, global meltdown! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Steve , on June 15, 2009 at 9:29 am Said: Ouch! Order Here.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. We take the typical Aussie mentality of giving everyone “a fair go” and apply it to a global scale.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It reminds me of living in Silicon Valley 10 years ago when so many foundational SaaS companies were started. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Big milestones for the old continent! 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. AI and The Department of Defense. Nand Mulchandani.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? Global Syndication Partners.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Do it yourself, Design it yourself, Distribute it yourself, 3D it yourself – in fact we can nearly make anything in home or certainly procure it via global production hubs like alibaba.com We can make anything because all the tools of production have been democratized for ever. A bit like Silicon Valley.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, Cabinet members who are responsible for vertical portfolios still manage the government’s large functional agencies, and there continues to be significant overlap between those who handle commercial, defense, and diplomatic policy. Originally, all of America’s computer chips were produced in Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Yes, HAI has been two years old, half of which is during a global pandemic, but we were born out of a very important mission. Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Yes, HAI has been two years old, half of which is during a global pandemic, but we were born out of a very important mission. Because at Google Cloud, we serve enterprise businesses, we see different vertical industries, right from healthcare to financial institute, to energy gas, to media, to retail, transportation, you name it.

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