Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. Running a Startup. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Network Limits. The network speed of the hosting provider will determine how fast your servers will transfer files. Network adaptors have fixed speeds, which are 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s, and 1Gb/s. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Horizontal Scaling.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this post, I wanted to deconstruct the various pieces of the flywheel that drives the Creator Economy, as well as the challenges, and opportunities for startups in this space. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans? The new Creators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 24, 2018

We are excited to have invested in one network, Figure 1 , which appears to have found the rare seam where a network can flourish with minimal permission and no system-level integrations.”. We have realized that in most cases, bottoms-up distribution or the “consumerization” of software in healthcare has its limits.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Network Effects as related to big data. Palantir has been able to repeatedly pair it’s core analytics platform with human investigators who unlock business value across a variety of vertical domains. Network effects of knowledge are strong in the enterprise. Smart Enterprise, 2. Platform Effects and 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. So why is this important?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. One of the most commons problems I see with startups that I’ve come across is the lack of a “growth team.”. Thanks to Intercom’s powerful tracking and automatic emails, we know when a startup founder finished and shared a deck.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know have they distribute their product? Do you know how they create demand?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

In fact, today, technology infrastructure is beginning to resemble a neural network. A network pummeled with bits of data coming at it from millions of devices — things — that few of us ever imagined would be computerized and connected. And while startups may thrive on chaos, enterprises struggle with it. New issues to resolve.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

If you think of the fact that most of the world still does not have smartphones (or affordable access to 4G networks), we are only in the beginning of massive data collection. In the late 1990s I was investing in enterprise integration, partner networks and business intelligence – the consumer web was still very much in its infancy.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

First Angel Network (Halifax). Wilmington Investor Network (NC). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). Vancouver Angels.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. It’s more than just a distribution channel. If you can’t invite people into your office and squeeze a new feature out of them, you have two options: Use social networks or a user-testing platform.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For fledgling startups or even established businesses looking for growth , strategic partnerships can elevate your efforts. Pixar was at the forefront of 3-D animation and storytelling but had no knowledge of the movie industry or distribution channels. Opens up your network. Does partnering with other businesses make sense?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. Outreach was named to the 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups list, which uncovers the 50 companies that have stood out this year, attracting investment, employees and attention.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Nurture your network; maintain your relationships. It is the innate power of a good founder’s network that will turn napkins into products and products into successful businesses. Recently, I was honored to attend StartUp Health ’s Healthcare Transformer Summit, co-located with Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ has rapidly gained traction with customers across several vertical industries, including financial services, healthcare and oil and gas. The company also announced that it has appointed Phil Myers as the new CEO and H.E. Buddy Wilson as vice president of business development to lead those efforts. CrunchBase Information.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. Unfortunately, while I had gone through phases of video game addiction in my life, in no way could I be described as even a “moderate hard-core gamer,” which ruled me out as a domain expert.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

What has the startup experience taught you about life? I would probably been working at another startup I founded. We’re actually a distributed team, so we’re in both SF and LA. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. Being polite.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the startup ecosystem is dependent on those wild Barry-Bonds-juiced-up-on-a-million-steriods-style home runs to keep functioning. Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. Semil Shah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. But startups rarely have either luxury.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. to compete.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , MolyWorks is building a distributed recycling network to convert scrap metal into additive manufacturing grade powder and parts at the point of need. What has the startup experience taught you about life? MolyWorks’ metal recycling in action.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I invested in quite a few other startups. I found a hidden gem in Israel.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I invested in quite a few other startups. I found a hidden gem in Israel.

Networking 111

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I invested in quite a few other startups. I found a hidden gem in Israel.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Tell Your Business Story! Accepting submissions. We will embed this Instagram feed on the post. 1) Solve a Problem.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of funding or founding enterprise software companies – these new startups are increasingly hybrids. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Hundreds of billions of dollars later, Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

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