A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Rather, buyer behavior is rooted in their strategy — a combination of product thesis, their theory of their market’s evolution, how they need to position for customers and against competitors, their long-term brand development, geographic expansion plans, and so on. Facebook asserted publicly that their future was in mobile.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

The point he’s making is that many marketers teach a business model that relies on using outsourcers, who often don’t have English as a first language, to create ebooks and other information products, which are then sold online using clever marketing. Why I Chose To Go Vertical. The Best Of Both Worlds.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. Customer Development) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions.&# Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One of the most promising trends accelerating in digital health is the verticalization of digital health. Consequently, it is now feasible to build a large business by becoming a focused vertical provider that delivers superior care and patient experience in your specialty. . Insurance Reimbursement .

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has. We’re moving away from the 10 blue links (and sometimes 10 blue ads) and moving into something different.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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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 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). He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

We’d hazard a guess that his affinity with food was what prompted him to develop Opinioneated ( www.opinioneated.com ). “I think there’s still many opportunities in this vertical in South East Asia and it’s one that takes on multiple forms – local shopping, local eating, local jobs,” muses Yongfook.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

As teams become increasingly distributed, video communication is important for both internal alignment and external business development. Next47 and American Insight Partners VC, demonstrates growing trust in its current and future business model. Here’s his full list of Verticalization of Zoom ).

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2014

Giving creative tools to people; creating products and services within communities that serve as both consumers and collaborators; and providing a business model so the creators can realize economic value. A software developer can use a company such as Layer to easily add communications technology to a mobile app.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. I like my odds.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the Installation Period , a great surge of technology development (Perez calls this Irruption) is followed by an explosion of investment (called the Frenzy.) 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.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Developing your company’s website is one of the most important investments you’re going to make. Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? In the early stages of your business’s development, you’re going to notice dead weight. Even fewer are successful with the original business model that spawned them.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce?

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

A Showcase of Inspiring Business Card Illustration Designs – [link]. “These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

A Showcase of Inspiring Business Card Illustration Designs – [link]. “These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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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

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. MootCorp in particular has an impressive track record of putting early stage tech companies on the right path towards funding.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

No-code and low-code platforms are making it easier to develop an app, build a platform, or build digital businesses that were once saved for people with in-depth technical knowledge or deep enough pockets to hire them. From improving customer experience to developing new business models, the possibilities are endless.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.” However, Amazon owns a digital media business built around Kindle.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. When I started Shapeways, complex software needed to be built and when I first reached out to developers, a lot of them laughed and told me it was impossible. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Don’t listen.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thanks to Allison R Lancaster, Online Business Solutions by Allison R. 2- Transformative development. 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence. I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Lancaster ! #2- Photo Credit: Joe Sinkwitz. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

1 – Business Model. Our business is unique because our business model addresses 2 major shifts in the fashion industry today: 1) the rise of fast fashion and its affect on major more traditional fashion companies like Gap, J. We launched our own haircare product line which is a big part of our business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. while building their products in China.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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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! If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity.

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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. Given this set of characteristics, how should a market be defined?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It’s a great and free resource for anyone starting, or thinking about starting, an online business. Flow is the next-generation blockchain developed by Dapper Labs (creators of CryptoKitties ). No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company.

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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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