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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

People would go, “Oh, this one won the “best of MacUser Magazine benchmark&# award,&# and it would confirm that this was a safe purchasing choice. And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Invite scrutiny.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Or through traditional print advertising in newspapers or magazines? Via social media?

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