Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. But none of that can happen if you have an impediment to growth – an invisible (or perhaps visible) force keeping your startup from creating the momentum it needs to keep growing. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? The Competitive Edge.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

–JJ Oslund, The Startup. Bizzabo is on fire these days, though it could have been easy to predict a downfall for the events-tech startup when the coronavirus froze an industry worth 500 billion dollars. Vertically-focused startups design products to better meet the needs of particular user segments.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

So is it worth setting up an online bingo site as a gaming startup business, given the volatility of the market? And when we say ‘niche’ we’re not referring to things like iGaming verticals. It’s a bit tough for a gaming startup business. The post Is an online bingo site startup still a viable business option?

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Five years ago, I wrote a note titled Infor: a grown-up sleath startup. I wrote about investments Charles Phillips and his team were making including those in ION middleware and in beautification its captive design agency Hook and Loop was.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. Tags: entrepreneur startup IBM PC Don Estridge business. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. 14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Launching your startup in a down economy doesn’t make it any less likely to last. Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can increase or decrease resources, use vertical or horizontal scaling – as you wish. Good news for IT startups planning to develop on cloud platforms. Many cloud providers offer various incentive programs for startups migrating to their platforms. Flexibility. Free resources. For example, cloud hosting and coaching.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2023

Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. The startup grind takes a major toll on a founder’s mental health. It’s the largest study of its kind.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Install horizontal and vertical grab bars near the toilet, tub, or shower for maximum safety. The post Senior Solo Living: Must-Have Products For Safety and Comfort appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Complement of bathroom, kitchen. Heavily mounted bars securely fastened into wall studs hold substantial weight to break a fall.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

But it’s not just large tech companies fighting for their share of cloud revenue – startups are entering the space quickly. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B Venture investors are realizing that generative artificial intelligence might not be enough to stem years long startup downturn.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Nothing is impossible.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. The Denver startup ecosystem is generous and supportive?—?truly

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision. It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 4, 2023

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a California startup company called Alef Automotive the first-ever airworthiness permit for a fully electric flying car that is capable of both flying and driving on roads. This milestone event marks the beginning of a new era in the transportation industry.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

Called ‘ vertical forests ’, these buildings are designed to reduce pollution in the cities. Other innovative technologies include cities made of interlocking bamboo structures, space-saving vertical cities, robotic construction, and more. Anti-pollution Buildings.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Reducing Risk – Simulation versus Customer Development If you remember the first part of this discussion, startups face two types of risk; invention risk and/or customer/market risk. In either type of startup you want to put in place processes in place to reduce risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision. It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Chainalysis is the clear market leader in their vertical and sits at the nexus between crypto exchanges, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement agencies. important pillars towards the inevitable maturation of the cryptocurrency space.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2021

The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT. BLE, which is also known as Bluetooth Smart, is a significant protocol that turns ordinary IT equipment into smart equipment that can connect to cloud servers via the internet to share real-time data. IoT’s impact on healthcare.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 6, 2014

Once implemented, the blockchain might be able to disrupt many verticals that are built around managing the transfer of ownership by replacing a centralized approach with a decentralized (and hence usually more efficient) approach. The 10 Most Promising Startups Building Stuff With Blockchain Technology (businessinsider.com).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

are what I’d categorize as “horizontal” – that’s to say, they don’t focus on a specific industry but rather try to help a group of startups generally advance their development. And industry corporates which are keep a close eye on the startups because of their need to stay close to innovation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Who does it serve?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In addition, our existing startups in this space continue to do well. We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. Bio/healthcare.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. These startups are VERY difficult to start without having one or more key technical members on the founding team.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Shoedazzle*, Bonobos*, J Hilburn, Warby Parker, IndoChino etc) are vertically integrated. Vertically integrated companies can take a lot of the costs out of the system and provide a much more compelling value to the consumer while still making an attractive margin. Lightspeed portfolio companies. apparel Ecommerce'

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. So what does an early-stage company do to avoid the doom and gloom plaguing the world of startups?

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We recently invested in a startup that creates a continuum of evidence-based care, integrating previously fragmented resources to treat substance use disorder (in hopes of preventing relapses). I’m interested in startups that are disrupting insurance with the hope of making healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 8, 2018

Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post I collected the Israeli. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. On the startup front, up and coming players like PikaAI and RunwayML, offer very short, but high quality video creation tools. Visual generative AI made strides as well.

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