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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

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. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash.

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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. Why I was interested was equally obscure.

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Vertically-focused startups design products to better meet the needs of particular user segments.

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How to Write the Competition Section of Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Key marketing tactics including pricing, messaging, and distribution, while others are about positioning your business against the background of the other offerings. You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. Competitive positioning. How do you stack up against the others?

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Think of brand tracking like stock investment.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording. Hastings wasn’t married to the old distribution model precisely because he invented it.