ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2021

Also, it can open up numerous business models and revenue channels that were earlier inaccessible for want of a suitable hardware and software solution. IoT will also enable businesses to get a fresh pair of eyes to look into data to derive insightful business insights. . Source: Mckinsey. IoT’s impact on healthcare.

Technical Review 215

Technical Review Software Review Cloud Vertical 215

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. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

Artificial Inteligence 177

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 177

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.

Generative AI 175

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 175

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.

Vertical 110

Vertical Search Business Model Software Development 110

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.

Michigan 301

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 301

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?”

Customer Development 270

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 270

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

“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. Instead he’s looking to launch a series of products focused on the idea of “local”, yet with a regional focus.

Singapore 200

Singapore Aggregator Technical Review Database 200

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.

Cofounder 230

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 230

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Next47 and American Insight Partners VC, demonstrates growing trust in its current and future business model. According to Oslund, the ability to focus on a particular user — from classroom teachers to project coworkers to game night friends — creates a unique advantage for verticals perfectly suited for their customers.

Vertical 148

Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

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. The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. This process continues until a viable product (and business model) can be discovered.

Product Development 153

Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

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.)

Customer 218

Customer Silicon Valley RSS California 218

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Business Model Technology Software Review 48

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.

Silicon Valley 261

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 261

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.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As SaaS vendors took off in the early 2000s, I was encouraged by their business model. They had collapsed software, hosting, application management and upgrades into one contract. But in recent years I have seen a reversal and a lot.

Software 317

Software Vertical Hosting Business Model 317

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 connective tissue for me between Second Life, AdSense, and YouTube is they’re all bets on people.

Technology 93

Technology Vertical Software Development Software Developers 93

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. DC: Leveraging the accelerator to refine Influencer Direct’s value proposition, business model, and positioning. RH: Close your eyes and imagine where your business will be in five years. What’s the same and what’s different?

DC 156

DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

The idea of working at a company whose entire business model revolves around catering to buyers in the HR space felt like such a breath of fresh air. HW: I’m always surprised when someone considering ‘joining a startup’ has put a lot of thought into industry/vertical but not into stage of company.

Employee 119

Employee Startup Vertical Leadership 119

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Even fewer are successful with the original business model that spawned them. Too often, investors are held back by a lack of intent or intent that’s too vague. For example, you may have a plan to “grow,” but what does that even mean? How much growth is reasonable to achieve?

Startup 127

Startup Retention Acquisition Agile 127

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?

Customer Development 287

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 287

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?

Japan 100

Japan Global Asia API 100

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.” As Jeff Bezos is fond of saying, “ your margin is my opportunity.”.

Europe 101

Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

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.”. Find your niche. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away.

Cofounder 164

Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today, eCommerce companies can scale up faster than almost any other consumer business model. This is due in part to the relatively simple and immediate validation of business models that are not fully dependent on advertising. That marketing, however, is dependent on capital, and that capital means Venture Capital.

eCommerce 94

eCommerce Open Source SEM Technical Review 94

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?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

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.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Technical Review Non-Compete Software Review 126

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. Blockchain. Climate sustainability. Qualification #4: You have an emerging track record as a good angel investor.

North Carolina 93

North Carolina Hiring Angel Investor Technical Review 93

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.

Technology 145

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 145

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

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.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

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.

Business Plan 160

Business Plan Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital 160

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

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.

Customer 427

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 427

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Some areas that are likely to see significant growth in the coming years include e-commerce, digital technologies, and sustainable business practices. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards remote work, which may lead to more flexible business models in the future.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Global 113

Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

Second, we did an investment where we actually decided to own more than 10% because of the nature of the business model. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. Our strategy isn’t to necessarily be contrarian but we decided there were certain verticals that we weren’t going to pursue in 2013.

Software Review 103

Software Review Vertical Seed Stage Portfolio 103

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of will ever know (see his biography below). And he has graciously agreed to give us the answers to the above questions, which winning business models to run with, which losers to run from, and much, much more!

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85