Blue Ocean Strategy
topic on 8 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 32 times in 22 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 19 
We Live to Build 3 
20VC 3 
the Neon Show 2 
How I Built This 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1
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Top Founders 1920VC 3We Live to Build 3the Neon Show 2How I Built This 2the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1the Official SaaStr Podcast 1Invest Like the Best 1
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 25m Wordpress Plugin Downloads, Now Raising $3m for SaaS Product
- Cargamos Does Last Mile Delivery in Mexico, Breaks $12m Revenue, Raising $30m Now
- The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box CEO, Aaron Levie and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin
- Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)
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2020 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The Oxygen Mask Rule Every CEO Forgets
- 1735 Smarter to Buy vs Build, He bought Company for $10m, Now doing $20m in ARR 3 years later
- PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces
- 1631 His Argument For Moving from SaaS to On Prem
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2019 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- 1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company
- 1577 Why He Sold His $3.1m ARR Company For 3x ARR 2 Months Ago
- 1440 He's Flat at $25k/mo So He's Making This 1 Big Change
- 1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth
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2018 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 1043 HR Tech CEO: I accidently raised $3m!
- 962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing
- A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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3 statements about Blue Ocean Strategy, every show
Levie: B2B founders must master three essential strategy books
“Read Innovator's Dilemma.
Read Crossing the Chasm.
Read Blue Ocean Strategy.
Those are the three books you have to read.
If you do what's in those books, and you are going after the B to B market, I guarantee you will be 10 times better off than any other star…”
Mauborgne: Strategy Should Focus on Creating New Markets, Not Just Competing
“If you look at what strategy historically has always been, it's been about how do you compete, how do you analyze an existing industry, benchmark the competition within it, and position yourself in that industry in order to succeed. So that was the one half, a…”
Levie: Disruption works by consolidating existing category spend into one suite
“The more you can be taking existing spend, existing categories, but just changing the variables a bit, so they favor your strategy. So what we do is we go to customers and we say, what if you had one solution that did all of these things, as opposed to buying …”