Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. It starts with well-crafted copy… From the standpoint of the search engines, the words you use in your content matter more than anything. Want to make sure what you’re putting out there is good enough to impress the search engines?

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Brandanew

JUNE 3, 2016

Since 1996 when this statement was made by one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, the three words have gone really, really viral. Search Engine Optimization is not just choking keywords in your articles; it is a feature which has a great role to play in getting your blog traffic. Mistake #2: You didn’t do your best in SEO.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. Normalizing ad units obviously has a benefit.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. “Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome. inch screen that slides out of a 17-inch screen). Definitely needs to be a pyramid scheme though. #4

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If you search our Ask-the-Experts database for the search term “consultant,” you’ll find some other records on consulting fees and standard rates. Search Questions. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Ask them about their deal, how much they paid, and how it went for them. Market analysis.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps the most widely known (and hotly debated) priming study was published by John Bargh in 1996. The presence of that box, however, primes me to leave the checkout flow and search for a promo code. For example, a ‘coupon code’ area can prime people to expect a discount (and to go searching for one). Cue cart abandonment.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Google’s first business model was to sell/license search to the major portals (Yahoo! we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And exactly 40 years later, when Google launched in 1996, even one of the world's top venture capitalists was a naysayer. David Cowan from Bessemer Venture Partners would not fund Google, thinking that there were already enough search engines in the market. I guess we can say that this was a pretty expensive naysayer mistake by IBM!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

It used to frustrate me that I’d drive my car to the airport on the freeway, fly 30,000 feet in air in a tube and then hop into a dingy old car with somebody that looked like they hadn’t slept in 72 hours with a car that looked like it hadn’t been serviced since 1996. Phase one – Uber changed my business travel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content. These laws only offer protection that results from a third-party posting. Abide by Trademark Laws.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? According to Hanapin Marketing’s 2015/2016 State of Paid Search Report , most people feel pretty good about their PPC campaigns… Image Source. Now, however, CPC is rising, especially for search. billion desktop search queries…?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    Secondly, I learned that you can't invest in a technology in search of a problem to solve. 

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

Don’t discount the obvious—take a look at the results of a quick web search, in the illustration here, for “where to sell my paintings.” He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. ” Don’t completely discount the related businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again? I’m only a 386 processor.&#. I love that.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Web Analytics, 4Q, KissInsights, Insights for Search, AdPlanner, and all the other glorious free tools. Skipping creation of a cross-channel strategy [via Shilpa Gupta] "TV drives Search. People matter. Hire smart people.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks → A Micropreneur’s Perspective: Selling Physical Products (..)

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. The applications can also leverage mobile-only features such as GPS search and the camera interface. The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. Yelp for local).

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. After an intensive and extensive search, they came across Draper Fisher Jurvetson who agreed to offer them a total of $300,000 for the project. He is now a respected businessman all over the world. Hotmail (Rejected 20 Times by Investors).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2019

Here’s another one built with Searchness , a tool I’m currently building: Organizing your qualitative data into a visual report is super helpful to spot issues with your website or app, or to get suggestions and even inspiration for your copywriting. Or, use dedicated tools like TryMyUI or Searchness to do it automatically.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

When starting Career Central in 1996, my team & I identified three qualities that we wanted our employees to possess: tirelessness, selflessness, and fearlessness. It may take a lot of soul-searching, but figure that out. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. Talent is today’s great differentiator.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Only talking to real-life people will help you figure out whether you’ve got a good product, or just a solution in search of a problem, or a product in search of a market.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996. Or, consider a startup like Ecosia that functions exactly like Google, but promises to plant a tree for every search you do.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. But look beyond this list as well — search on AngelList for investors who have made more than one investment in your space in the past 12 months, and who bring some of their own relevant experience. Fill Out the Round.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Time is an important commodity, and to have to waste time going from website to website searching for my fun and entertainment choices was an on-going frustration. But when I embarked into entrepreneurship in 1996 it was because I wanted more time with my daughter. Image Credit: Melisa Alaba. She did not want to leave her home.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

To illustrate this and the lack of improvement in forms, take a look at IBM’s contact form in 1996 and their form in 2016. For example, instead of forcing everyone to enter their country or search for it in a long dropdown list, why not just suggest the country they’re visiting the website from based on their IP address?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Today, people would let Steve Jobs make such a radical turn at nearly any company because of the outcome he’s achieved at Apple.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Legend asserts that the name change from Cadabra was prompted by Yahoo’s alphabetized listing of search results.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You can find this out (crudely) from job sites (search on Developer Java, for example). © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Comments 1 Chris Powell commented at 3:29 p.m. on February 1, 2010 Another criterion I use is: What is the size of the developer pool? It is significantly easier getting developers when there is a large pool.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

They didn’t have the ability to crowdfund or go to an incubator either, so they did the only thing they could do in 1996: work out of their garages. Elizabeth Isele, co-founder of Washington think tank Senior Entrepreneurship Works says : Part of small-business burnout is related to the whole search for meaning.

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