The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean. Staying lean early on will help you when you need to scale.”. Find your niche. I’d say the best advice would be just to get started and once you find something, focus and execute.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. Vertical integration of different funding risks.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source. LinkedIn’s social media customer story video uses social proof to sell its Sales Navigator feature: Image source.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. For media sites like ours you are either growing traffic or or you are dying.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I wonder what would have happened if that guy didn’t steal your slides… Reply Mark Essel , on December 7, 2009 at 6:44 am Said: We’re in midst of finding the best service/market harmony at Victus Media. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Keep you office running lean and mean. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Keep you office running lean and mean. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2020

We have already pivoted to manufacturing trailers for other verticals. Maybe you have a goal to reach a certain number of followers on social media. It reminds me that the only way I will not become a statistic for failed startups is by leaning in to those feelings, and not shying away from them. 20- Two ways.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Keep you office running lean and mean. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful.

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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. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Worry about the sales results.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Core Values Even after we had Mission and Intent down pat, one of the things that still drove me crazy was when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline, everyone in my department had an excuse.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads). On a more serious note, any tips on attracting founders?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Lean marketing. Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Get used to monitoring Twitter conversations around your vertical and try to engage with as many as you can. Search ads are expensive, however.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I think he was saying that politicians and the media are trying to promote entreprenuership as the salvation of the nation, is that correct? Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? the video skipped or something?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Well, especially when you see the multiplication of that kind of activity on social media, that's, you know, I've, I don't know about you, but I mean it's kind of soured me on even wanting to pay attention to it because there's so much of that, Sam Horn (02:49): You know, there's research. She opens the window and she leans out.

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justinmares.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Apply lean startup principles to getting traction. The Lean Startup movement advocates running small experiments to determine what your customers want in a product. Think of several traction verticals that could potentially work for you, and come up with cheap ways to test them as acquisition channels. Bookmark the permalink.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. a live stream with an influencer on social media). Your next experiment might be to test new messaging , or media, to understand what has a greater impact on brand recognition. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Image source.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

my hotel room was stacked with the journals and textbooks about each vertical market just to keep up with the people we were meeting. (I I had known nothing about supercomputers and numerical simulation applications; now there wasn’t a day that went by that I wasn’t learning something new.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Rather, websites are collections of useful or informative media which may be sorted into different screens (or sections, or blocks, or views — time will tell which term becomes popular). A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. AJAX-savvy media queries?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. I keep an art easel in the closet at the office so the kids have something of their own when they come. We try to keep the families aware of what is going on and often ask for their involvement.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Here are some practical approaches to identifying shifting priorities: Embedding yourself in social media. niche down”). Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

The CMO-CIO divide is exacerbated by the rise of web commerce and social media. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I After all, the share of marketing that goes through digital channels — through the web and social media, on smartphones and tablets — is growing like crazy.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. link] Nivi. Ideas are worthless!!!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

We were sitting in the conference room of a large well-respected media firm when their CEO breezed in to give us an overview of who they were and how forward thinking their firm was. It was, as he explained, the sum of their strategy and strategic thinking for online media. Are those my initials on the slide? Fast forward nine months.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] Reply Maurice Karnaugh , on April 7, 2009 at 6:57 pm Said: It seems to me that the most creative and motivated students will get excellent grades in subjects that interest them but sometimes mediocre grades in other subjects.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The colors, visual styles, and fonts on your website should look like your business cards , which should look like your social media accounts, which should look like your business logo, which should look like your… you get the idea. Social media. Many social media sites offer integrated polling as well. Via social media?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration. Stotting consists of fleeing via a jumping behavior that appears to be sub-optimal.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

One of my all-time favorite entrepreneurs, and a man who has had such a profound impact on our world, Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur who has created fortunes in a variety of industries and verticals. When you’re starting a business, you want it to be as lean as possible. He was only 27 at this point! billion dollars.

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