Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. We’re about to ship next week.” or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8 The number of companies funded has also declined by 6%.

Venture Capital 79

Venture Capital Vertical Massachusetts eCommerce 79

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” Sir Ronald Cohen. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

Israel 174

Israel Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

The lure to sell: working on their technologies, supported by large teams and resources, and unencumbered by constraints of the VC model.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Tell us about something you love.

Architecture 62

Architecture Los Angeles Austin Angel Investor 62

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

The lure to sell: working on their technologies, supported by large teams and resources, and unencumbered by constraints of the VC model.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. See Page 269. :).

Analytics 135

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 135

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way? but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level. Is it someone else?

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% dasein Yeah, I agree.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Save Us Money: Conviction sees an opportunity for AI agents to continuously monitor prices, aggregate demand, negotiate deals, and make purchasing decisions on behalf of consumers, similar to earlier concepts like Honey and Paribus. They suggest focusing on specific verticals and leveraging customer signals to bootstrap an index. ?

Startup 167

Startup Software Review Technical Review Metadata 167