Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Back in the 1960’s and 70’s no sane MBA’s would work for a Silicon Valley startup.) Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.
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Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. Order Here.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Therefore when money is hard to come by, entrepreneurs (and their investors) look for ways to reduce cash burn rate and increase the chance of finding product/market fit before waste you bunch of money. The Customer Development Venture Pitch At this point I often hear entrepreneurs say, “We don’t have the money to scale.
Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2009
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