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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

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,

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Don Estridge, IBM PC Father, Startup Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. He immediately was asked by top executives to apply that leadership to the mainstream business of IBM mainframes. That was pure Don Estridge – always challenging the team to push beyond their comfort zone.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

However, quickly determine other sectors worthy of interest and try to hire leadership and tech talent experienced in those areas. Once a digital agency’s operations begin to mature, leadership needs a strategic tack to properly manage its growth. Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] But make sure it fits who you are. The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. carry on reading.

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