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Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] Reply Alpha Testing « Two Sixes Blog , on July 5, 2010 at 7:04 pm Said: [.]
Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Reply steveblank , on May 25, 2010 at 1:05 am Said: Tom McMurray. be a user of software (for the consumer use case).
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.
Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article! Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-11-03 , on November 3, 2009 at 5:05 pm Said: [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.]
Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.] Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model « The Product Guy , on April 26, 2010 at 11:24 am Said: [.] Good Enough Decision Making [.]
EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post! This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.]
Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. All the best, Mark Reply Lisa Hjorten , on April 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm Said: Great post, it made me feel even more confident about my current approach which is 1. thanks for the reminder. Thanks and keep up the good work!
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Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:28 am Said: [.] Yellow Pages for Researchers , on January 31, 2010 at 8:06 pm Said: [.] on May 28, 2010 at 12:09 am Said: [.] ???? , on May 28, 2010 at 12:09 am Said: [.] ???? ????: ?? business model.
Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. Back in 2010, the team tried approaching university administrators to get them to adopt their platform. This funding is big news, particularly since 2016 was a weak year for Ed Tech funding.
Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.] Reply Customer Development – Not Just for Web Startups » Biotech by the Bay , on May 1, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: [.]
Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) Another big driver according to Montgomery is that the tech industry has matured and is returning to its vertically integrated roots. Love to hear more views! .
Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. We had a series of meetings with Ynon and thought he’s be a great addition to our team.
Deena , on July 19, 2010 at 8:27 pm Said: Mark – thanks for the awesome summary of the grey areas with customer development. steveblank , on September 7, 2010 at 11:00 pm Said: Mark, You’ve just listed the reasons why startups are not done by accountants with spreadsheets. It’s an art.
Reply Marco , on October 7, 2010 at 1:38 pm Said: Hi Steve, thanks for the awesome post, but, what was question #4? Reply Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough « Steve Blank , on December 17, 2009 at 6:01 am Said: [.] Keep teaching! Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.
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But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.]
Reply Don’t forget to keep it simple – Recomended reading from Steve Blank « Spreading FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE , on May 10, 2010 at 9:28 am Said: [.] Reply Javier Rincón , on July 13, 2010 at 2:10 am Said: Very insighful post. It’s a litmus test of how you [.]
Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. Given how much progress they’ve made since last year I look forward to tracking them and seeing where they end up by the end of 2010.
Reply Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups | Market By Numbers | San Diego | Marketing Help , on January 3, 2010 at 9:13 am Said: [.] Reply Jeff , on May 12, 2010 at 4:58 pm Said: I was making games at EA at the time Rocket Science launched. The mistake is assuming you are a Black [.]
Reply Startup vs Home Life « Nickpoint , on September 9, 2010 at 8:19 am Said: [.] Go figure. m Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves [.]
Reply Jim Wolcott , on April 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm Said: Steve! Reply El efecto novedad « Ludosofía , on May 2, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Reply Steven Edelman , on October 4, 2010 at 5:19 pm Said: Steve you left out part of the story but maybe that’s because this happened before you got there. Order Here.
Reply Hans , on June 15, 2010 at 7:10 pm Said: I have never experienced burnout, but I never knew it could influence your physical perception this much I work in the show business (I’m a life sound engineer) and got married 5 years ago. The Chad poses a very good point. That sucks but that’s just the way it is.
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steve Joshua , on January 5, 2010 at 3:19 pm Said: Fantastic entry, thanks very much Steve. As marketers we both understood the 10% was a figure of speech and neither of us took it as a literal number, If I was in engineering I would have been interested in the percentage.
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on July 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm Said: [.] Fire might be a strong word. Reply Play Wack-a-Mole – gently, now – With Your ‘Bad’ Customers | CityOf.com – More Local… FASTER. ,
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Thank you, Jerry Sheridan Reply Amazing Posts « Shashank ND , on February 11, 2010 at 5:48 am Said: [.] Others say Larry Spitters & Co. were the first computer entrepreneurs here. Were we anything first? Any answers or pointers will be appreciated.
Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Not a trivial job considering our computer was one of the first parallel architectures, and our compiler required specific knowledge of our [.] The cheapest way to get promotion is getting colleagues to [.]
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Alex Miroshnichenko , on February 4, 2010 at 6:21 pm Said: Well, funny how myths are created. Reply Ed Lyon , on March 31, 2010 at 10:01 am Said: The “Secret History&# slides were interesting, but I have to object to your crediting Mike Villard (Slide 101 of Rev 5, Feb 2010) with EARTHLING and CHECKROTE radars.
As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.
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Reply Augusta Prince , on April 16, 2010 at 3:08 pm Said: My late friend Gordon P. invention of electronic warfare, part I and [.] McCouch wrote in his Harvard ’41 25th anniversary report: “I spent the war as a civilian associated with the radar countermeasures effort at Harvard’s Radio Research Laboratory.
Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.
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Reply Jacek , on January 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm Said: Steve, I think the problem here isn’t with Business Plan Competitions, but with the way they are organized. Just my 2¢ Reply steveblank , on January 15, 2010 at 4:36 pm Said: Jacek, We’re going to have to “agree to disagree&# on this one.
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