Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. He went to vendors for common hardware parts, went to outside software developers for the operating system and application software, and acted as an independent business unit. mHz, now 3.0

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Is there other software that does this? What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Customer intimacy.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. There are several different structures a business can adopt in order to create efficient and well-received management practices.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Fast forward to 2013.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. (Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

And as much as I like the startup ecosystem here it seems to me that the people cost of software development forces startups to launch half-baked products. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link]. Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. Relying on client development alone will give you only part of the picture. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. Respond to shifting market priorities.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. And an outstanding rebuttal to Roger Ebert’s criticism of 3D technology – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

To begin with, the product development model completely ignores a fundamental truth about startups and new products. The greatest risk in startups —and hence the greatest cause of failure—is not the technology risk of developing a product but in the risk of developing customers and markets. The products sold themselves.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory. Think about that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, suddenly I realized that the business I had formed focused on implementing technology into the luxury real estate domain. When I started my software development company, 5 Nerds Software, one of the first areas I focused on was our logo. Vertical or horizontal design? Thanks to Lida Citroen, LIDA360. #18

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. Second, for folks keeping score at home, this phenomenon appears to extend beyond high-technology companies. The innovation business.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies. Sjoerd Franken.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software. Greatest Hits.

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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. >> The article and HN are concerned with software. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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