Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. It’s a natural part of learning about your customers and business model.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model (until its collapse 50 years later).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Productivity gains Agents that act as systems of action – agents that can complete common consumer tasks like booking a restaurant or finding and sending a gift to a friend.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Unfortunately, regardless of a VC’s age, their business models are suffering and IPOs seem to be a thing of the past for at least a while longer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) Is our solution compelling enough that they want to buy it or use it today?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Someone correct me if they have a better memory.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now? DC: Leveraging the accelerator to refine Influencer Direct’s value proposition, business model, and positioning. Would you recommend it?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. 11- Blinkist.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Ps: my limited perspective comes with self recognition of a lack of hands on experience always enjoy it when I stop in to read here Steve Reply Aamir , on July 2, 2009 at 10:18 am Said: Awesome post Steve… but isn’t drawing the business model for a gaming company going to be easy? Make game, market, sell, profit?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Rob Adams, the director of MootCorp, is doing an amazing job at providing value to all participants, whether it’s feedback on their business model or making the right introductions. It’s a challenge to keep the play-book up-to-date as we are doing it. Jon Reply Latest business plans news - That’s version ?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. I think we erred in letting our traffic and operational concerns outstrip our business model, where simply maintaining what we had was preventing us from advancing our product.”. Sometimes I think I should write a book about all the ups and downs we’ve had.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The dysfunctional family theory may explain why founders who excel in the chaotic early phases of a company throw organizational hand grenades into their own companies after they find a repeatable and scaleable business model and need to switch gears into execution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. For example, US Steel had integrated vertically and was involved in the mining of the iron ore all the way to the production of various steel products, e.g., nails. See here for background on horizons.).

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist (Feld; Mendelson) is the best book to read if you want to understand venture capital, term sheets, etc.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Hype before shipping any product is an obvious flaw, but what about hyping products that have shipped but have zero business model? era&# , but really interested in your take on these “free&# models through the prism of Customer Development. Rocket Science seems to be a bit of an extreme case though.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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ConversionXL

MAY 17, 2012

The best images follow the rule of thirds : an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. A visual communicates your ideas much faster than any text.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

I found many of these in the classic book “ Great From The Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success ,” by John B. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. 5 Growth Strategies to Transform Your Business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

He has a new book out called — Moving to Outcomes: Why Partnerships are the Future of Marketing. Questions I ask Bob Glazer: [1:13] How would you define partnerships, and what are you offering new in the area of partnerships in this book? [3:29] In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Bob Glazer.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

I´m reading (and enjoying a lot) your book “the 4 steps…&#. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. Reply Miguel Cavalcanti , on May 18, 2009 at 8:12 pm Said: Hello Steve, great pst, tks for sharing your knowledge. demand creation strategy).

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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. Is marketing different if you’re in the cleantech business versus medical devices? Technology?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Votem Founder and CEO Pete Martin is a successful serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of experience in the technology business and enterprise-software space, and author of the upcoming book, “ Sparking a Mobile Revolution: How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It. ” What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. I could write a book on this post alone.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Think of a Fab as analogous to a book printing plant (see figure below). Just as an author writes a book using a word processor, an engineer designs a chip using electronic design automation tools. The printing process for a book uses offset lithography, filming, stripping, blueprints, plate making, binding and trimming.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Another good resource is Appolicious’ directory.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. Is ABM right for your business? We’ll also explore in detail the many factors you need to consider to do ABM right.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. In fact if I were to describe Mint, you see it as the business model of make money by pushing offers for credit cards, loans, and so forth onto people. Highly recommend that book.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

I found many of these in a new book, “ Great From the Start ,” by John B. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. I talk about this in my book and there is always a discussion at the Lean Startup Group at [link]. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

At this stage you were expecting to be working on creating a good business valuation to attract future buyers, or at least funding college accounts for your kids. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. But don’t worry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

At this stage you were expecting to be working on creating a good business valuation to attract future buyers, or at least funding college accounts for your kids. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. But don’t worry.

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