Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

thanks Reply Denis , on March 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Steve, is this blog in addition to the book or instead of it? What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book? mahmoud , on March 28, 2009 at 1:53 am Said: Steve, I want to buy your book but its not available on amazon.ca What did I learn so far?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. We thought about what makes our business differentiated and unique from existing companies in the space. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9- 9- A merger of two companies.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book. based teachers.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

However, with cold email, perhaps you get a good response rate but you don’t book as many demos. Though Dollar Shave Club’s organic strategy appears to be growing their following, there is an opportunity to improve by differentiating content across social channels. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

His new book Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation, explains how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. 04:02] In your book, how do digital technologies enable the creation of services and products in an entire industry? [05:48] Mike Lenox (01:28): John.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Questions I ask Jenn Herman: [1:21] Why did you feel like you needed a new edition to your book? [2:26] 5:04] If you’re talking to somebody who understands the basics of Instagram, how do you advise them to use this edition of the book? [5:53] And so it's a very legitimate question to say, okay, what's new in the book?

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, here is how a few of my favorite startups describe themselves: “ Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone.” Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. Audio Books. David Pakman.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s seems very likely that the growth in time spent in app per user was driven not by the early majority, but by the late majority and laggards (see below chart below from the famous book Crossing the Chasm about how to think about which customers are adopting a given product). I think AR is that big, it’s huge. I don’t know.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Take a look at Ecwid’s list of top trending products : Cosmetics; LED Strip Lights; Kitchen Appliances; Stationery; Cleaning products; Star projectors; Water bottles; Books; Skincare products; Jewelry. Shoot videos vertically in 9:16 aspect ratio. And the type of products this audience is into is equally as diverse. Keep videos short.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For example, in a new book, “ If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat! ,” Leonard Sherman, executive in residence at the Columbia Business School, suggests that you should stay out of the competitive dogfight and continually redefine the game on your own terms. Expand the market to new domains. It also forces you into new innovative thinking.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. Go seek out the experts. They love their industry.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiated value proposition or your proprietary process or your USP. We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Every single person, every single organization on the planet knows what they do, 100 percent.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As Luke Wroblewski of Google chronicled years ago, Amazon really pioneered this trend… Luke Wroblewski , Google : “In 1998, the site had two top-level categories: books and music. Album Art Collection is a rather popular example of tabbed navigation… Two things are interesting here… The navigation is vertical vs. horizontal.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Our company sells series of adventure books introducing world cultures to kids that arrive in very cool packages from abroad. I love how it differentiates my brand from my competition with its unique and strong visuals. Vertical or horizontal design? This summarized the name of the business and goal within a single image logo.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the case of social software all the evidence suggests that the investment theme is strong and there will be more winners in this space, but the next generation will work hard to differentiate themselves from their forbears by specialising in different process areas or distinct verticals.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When a company acquires another business, they often pay a lot more than the book value of the company. This differential is often referred to as “Goodwill” and it is an idea plays out a lot in the software market. For Salesforce, the edge comes from the network effect, brand name, plethora of integration and the name recognition.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Instead of trying to sell e-commerce software to Barnes and Noble, Bezos decided to sell books instead. For a long time, software was viewed as an enabler and accelerant for competitive differentiation for incumbents.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the satisfaction of not only paying my own salary– which I’ve done for years on various book projects– but paying the salaries of others. I needed the terrifying experience of jumping off a cliff and relying only on my wits to complete the two books I’ve written. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Get Tickets.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

Innovation is a function of sticking with and executing on ideas— whether new or old — that don’t conform to the status quo, which results in turning an idea into something tangible, useful, and differentiated. Since then, it’s been almost vertical. We need to listen non-critically to ideas.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example). Differentiate free and gated content. SEO should lead with intent. Remember Omnisend’s podcast?

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Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2018

The idea was to build a publishing-focused brand with events as a revenue base while we figured out our own differentiation in a crowded market — and then added business lines around advertising, custom content and now subscriptions. I joined Digiday seven years ago after many years reporting on the industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

12:49] Can you dive into your 5 A framework from your book and also talk a little bit about how you see the role of content today? [16:09] More About Brent Weaver: Get a copy of his book – Get Rich in the Deep End: Commit to Your Niche, Own Your Market, and Audaciously Scale Your Agency. It doesn't have to just be a vertical.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

12:49] Can you dive into your 5 A framework from your book and also talk a little bit about how you see the role of content today? [16:09] More About Brent Weaver: Get a copy of his book – Get Rich in the Deep End: Commit to Your Niche, Own Your Market, and Audaciously Scale Your Agency. It doesn't have to just be a vertical.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US. Vertical solutions are typically a sign of a more mature ecosystem. In Europe, a range of vertical SaaS companies is beginning to emerge, and it's likely to catch-up in the future.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Eventually, games that depended only on CDRom for their differentiation fizzled out, as people saw that the access times for all that data made the games a painful experience. You could explain that, while you had access to more storage space per game, you were still running on the same Intel chip with the same graphics board.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. That’s easy, that’s super easy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.] Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. A Move back to vertical living – Years ago we used to live above the store, or behind the craftsman’s workshop. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Find your differentiator through competitive analysis. Dig deeper into your brand’s differentiating points through two components of competitive analysis : Areas where you overlap with competitors (in terms of features and value propositions ); Areas where you and your competitors differ. TikTok and YouTube). Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. Many booking systems exist out there but they are all built with the single brick in mortar in mind. Thanks to John Fenn, Budget Dumpster. #13

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