Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While we ramped up our content this year and increased the number of posts on our blog, we’ve realized that it’s also important to make a pivot now, and ensure that our content is optimized and will begin to rank on search engines. As a result, our top managers organize free courses for everyone from our company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) There were no venture investors. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If all the engineers work on the same thing at the same time, and all the marketers do the same, and QA, and ops, all the way down the line, then each department develops its own team-based private reality. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Image Credit: Steve Benson. Thanks to Steve Benson, Badger Maps ! #4 4 – Sr.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. The company has a checkered past, but it was the first corporation in history to issue stock in exchange for capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. Not every startup ended up this way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features. So what was going on?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. Jen Pahlka : Like your Long-Term Stock Exchange.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock. Although the specific payoff of a specific risky stock is not known, investing in many such stocks can be modeled accurately. Thus a decent financial advisor can give you a reasonably accurate long-term expected return for a set of risky stocks.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2022

Every day, I meet with the most innovative brands, materials scientists, engineers, designers and artists, business people, and investors. I'm always looking for new ways to do things, and get other perspectives on business, life, management, and finance. 21- Agility. Thanks to Zimri T. Hinshaw, Bucha Bio ! #8-

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Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

Some Taobao sellers also pay a monthly subscription for software (Wangpu) which helps them create better looking and easier to manage storefronts. stocks inventory) and is really more analogous to Amazon. In fact JD.com, which priced it’s IPO yesterday, is a direct seller (e.g.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. I am going to share this with our whole team because our clients NEED this to be managed more completely and we NEED to get better at it… period! Donna Svei.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Marty Hayes, Online Business Manager for UK Consumers at Dell Technologies, uses data to show people why customer centricity is important and to get people to start questioning opinions: I once worked for an online womenswear retailer, where our target market was fast-fashion-craving teenage girls and young women. So how can data help you?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. During this stage, you want to meet the people doing the main activities in each function, not the managers. . waterfall, agile , etc.)?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? Provided you do it with the senior management layer as well. They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We decided to work with our engineering department to create the Potreo benchmarks because we really wanted to see how our boards performed with the four applications customers told us that they used; Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator and PageMaker. It’s the decisions that you make that might cost you an order, a sale or a higher stock price.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

Yet, despite easy access to data and improved large-scale management capabilities, small businesses still have to approach some parts of their business differently. The goal is the same for both: reach that first search engine results page (SERP) and increase your profit while doing so. Security: This is a no-brainer. Keywording.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2024

We also emphasize the importance of robust financial management, ensuring we have sufficient reserves to weather potential downturns. Financial planning, including risk management and training and keeping our teams up to date, assists our organization in staying stable in bad economic conditions. Thanks to Ben Pu, ShipSage ! #2-

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. Big companies can afford entire departments dedicated to compliance.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. Pick a name for your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. In reality the sales team was working for the rest of the company to make all of our stock valuable. But sales came first. (By

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? Like what?!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

He is a long time featured keynote speaker for things such as search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization, and I’ve had him on the show a couple of times, some of you may recall waiting for your cat to bark… maybe a call to action definitely [buyer legends 00:53] and a number of other books.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Siemens spends $10 billion on customer experience—not well spent (they actually spent it on “agile” organization, and if agile teams produce s**t, you get agile s**t). Agile teams usually focus on efficiency. You feel how they feel.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Part 4- Closing. Rand Fishkin. Start Spanish. Live Mocha.

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