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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

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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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

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,

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

These were inspiring stories, but I realized that, no surprise, the popular press were writing books that had mass appeal. Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here?

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

All of this is hit upon in your book but reframing and coming back to the concepts via this blog will definitely help with clarifying the ideas and processes behind Lean Startups. Reply Sean Murphy , on November 2, 2009 at 11:55 am Said: This is a common misunderstanding and one that bootstrappers trip over.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] But make sure it fits who you are. The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. carry on reading.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

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