Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
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.
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,
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
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.
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). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
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.
View from Seed
JULY 22, 2024
GTM – The Pain Doesn’t Live with the Budget Sometimes the pain aligns with the budget in that data teams feel the pain of overwhelming data requests from other teams, and there’s pressure from leadership to deliver. If you’re thinking and building in this problem space, I’d love to chat.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 15, 2022
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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