Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Also a student of reading.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Adriana has been a psychiatrist for 10 years; she understands the ins and outs of that business. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. seconds, is hard to replicate; it took hundreds (thousands?)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. It’s a natural part of learning about your customers and business model.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. By 1931, with the combination of superior financial management and an astute brand and product line strategy, GM had 43% market share to Ford’s 20% – a lead it never relinquished. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Inventors alone, or business gurus alone, generally fail. Technologists forget that investors are buying a chunk of the business, not the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2010

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. same as the old boss.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. Their book Lead and Disrupt describes how others can learn how to do so. Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Rob Adams, the director of MootCorp, is doing an amazing job at providing value to all participants, whether it’s feedback on their business model or making the right introductions. It’s a challenge to keep the play-book up-to-date as we are doing it. Jon Reply Latest business plans news - That’s version ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Marketing should start before product development.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Doing so requires creating a hybrid business model, one that prioritizes the need for innovation while keeping in play the best aspects of operational excellence — for example, its focus on relentless, constant improvement. Thinking Aloud creative thinking Edward Hess innovation organizational development workplace culture'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The same goes for new MLM product development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

The excerpts, which appeared first at Inc.com , highlight the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in our book. ———– Whether your venture is a new pizza parlor or the hottest new software product, beware: These nine flawed assumptions are toxic.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. For the first few years, your VCs want you to keep your head down, build the product, find product/market fit and ship to get to some inflection point (revenue, users, etc.). Bookings, recurring revenue, lifetime value?) ——-.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it. So you are your, your business model.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

Maybe that was the right thing to do to get the business, but the key point is that we didn’t test how much they would have been willing to pay. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. Like Product Development and Customer Development, this too requires conscious iteration.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. Even seed investors generally fund businesses that are already rolling. Getting access to restaurant booking data won't be easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in the classic book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Business people at this level recognize the magnitude of the workload and the specific tasks required for success.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. By the 1920’s, in the Age of the Automobile and Oil, large companies sought to control the new product development process. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

If I collect all that together and call that all small business, which is a little unfair because of course they are different in how you’d get after them and so on, but for now, if I collect all that and say small business and organizations, is that what you want to target? Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

This message appeals to customers who value a comfortable shave without leaning solely on the subscription business model. This means buying their product, booking a demo or signing up for a trial. What product attributes are being highlighted? Convenience is table stakes in the DTC landscape.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Books, papers, and essays have been written about the way Toyota handles its manufacturing processes. The practices have long been admired as a model for other companies to follow. Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

We’ve compiled this list to share what we believe to be some of the most important books for startups of any kind. If you’re stuck in a corporate job you hate, Pamela Slim’s book offers some encouragement for breaking free and creating your own startup. Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. Other products used and their functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2014

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. She plumbs the range of possibilities she has gained through personal experience as an entrepreneur, and as the “queen of business financing” in the financial industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2013

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. She plumbs the range of possibilities she has gained through personal experience as an entrepreneur, and as the “queen of business financing” in the financial industry.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

So when I launched Bidsketch — a SaaS based proposal application for designers — offering a free plan was a no-brainer in my book. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. Check out my book Like this post? Early on, things were working out nicely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’re gonna talk about the new book by both of them today called Killing Marketing: How Innovate Businesses are Turning Marketing Cost into Profit. So this is … How many books for you guys together? Robert Rose: Actually, believe it or not, this is only our second book together. Oh, this is super fun.

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www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

re providing business skills for the startup, back it up with action. Take steps towards product market fit, such as getting signed Letters of Intent (LOIs) which show that your product will have revenue on day 1. You could also create a business model canvas , and collect real world data for each section of the canvas.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere. As with all of their work, theirs is not just a book of theory.

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