VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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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. The idea that we can all leverage technology is a key tenet of Homebrew’s Bottom Up Economy thesis. Startups are hard!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

With this powerful new technology, we can unlock entirely new types of questions you never thought Search could answer, and transform the way information is organised, to help you sort through and make sense of what’s out there. 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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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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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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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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, one takeaway is that we’re again in a period where the most exciting investment opportunities possess real technology risk. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Our original idea had been nothing more than an untested set of hypotheses.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. A technology start-up is very different. The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. A technology start-up has very different needs.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Treehouse, we’re trying to make technology education affordable and accessible to everyone on Earth, and doing that means that we’ll be working for a really long time and will likely always have more to do. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse. Find your niche.

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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. For example, Marques Brownlee is one of the most prolific technology reviewers. DC: Leveraging the accelerator to refine Influencer Direct’s value proposition, business model, and positioning. DC: What’s the same.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Adit Jain, Leena AI ! #6-

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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

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. You’re in a “ hits-based &# entertainment business like movies or music rather than a product business like traditional high-tech. -

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But in business, you want a lot of partners. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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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 are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. Thanks to Jean Chen, Cicinia ! #10-

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Qualification #3: You understand a specific complex technology that is a current or emerging investment theme for the firm. All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. Synthetic bio. Blockchain.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today’s e-consumers are reaping the benefits of eCommerce’s cornerstone: Superior technological innovation. Today, eCommerce companies can scale up faster than almost any other consumer business model. Just look at the history of computer hardware retail, for example, in considering the potential for other eCommerce sectors.

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eCommerce Open Source SEM Technical Review 94

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. Let me know what you think. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Hate Business Plan Competitions Yet this same conversation reminded me why every time students at Berkeley or Stanford tell me they’ve entered a technology business plan competition, I question whether they are wasting their time. You’ll learn a lot. I now think that was a mistake.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. 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. They intended to get scale for their business by growing in the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? Strictly First Come, First Serve Lee will speak via webinar this Thursday, March 4th, at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

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. It does not change as the study of that market unfolds.

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Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 427

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Every generation of new technology seems to find a willing audience in naïve journalists and eager readers. Hype before shipping any product is an obvious flaw, but what about hyping products that have shipped but have zero business model? Rocket Science seems to be a bit of an extreme case though. We all know how that ends up.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch , Parks will pitch Sapient in the Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics Technology category, (9:30 to 10:30 am Saturday, March 14), aiming to impress a panel of expert judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation in emerging technology.

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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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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. Second, for folks keeping score at home, this phenomenon appears to extend beyond high-technology companies. The innovation business.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

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. Technology has both enabled us and added needless complexity to the process. Is ABM right for your business? Image source ).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

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. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 126

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

See Votum pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. I think it’s still early days for both AI and blockchain, so there’s still a bit of hype for both, but the technologies are starting to find their way.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 12, 2025

These are characterised by the development of novel algorithms, foundational models, and core machine learning technologies. These ventures represent deep technology initiatives, often requiring significant research and development, even at the pre-seed stage.

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