YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

In fact, a cursory search on Amazon.com for entrepreneurship returns more than 56,000 books results. If the articles, books, conferences and professional development you partake in and consume are all about your single vertical or corner in the business-owning stratosphere, now is the time to broaden your focus.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

She’s been a speaker for 3 TEDx talks and the author of 10 books, including Tongue Fu, POP!, Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. So rock and roll.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. As advocated in the book, I felt the idea of using restraint would help me quickly execute on new ideas. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. There’s plenty of pie to go around.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] But make sure it fits who you are. The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

by Matt Tenny, author of “ Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom “ A recent Gallup poll shows that only 30 percent of Americans are actively engaged at work. This is accomplished easily when you build a culture of servant leadership. Since then, it’s been almost vertical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

These were inspiring stories, but I realized that, no surprise, the popular press were writing books that had mass appeal. Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

All of this is hit upon in your book but reframing and coming back to the concepts via this blog will definitely help with clarifying the ideas and processes behind Lean Startups. Reply Sean Murphy , on November 2, 2009 at 11:55 am Said: This is a common misunderstanding and one that bootstrappers trip over.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Maybe more importantly, you need to accept that there are no rules to success, that most business books you should never have read, and that you must consider each situation in the unique context of its people and market opportunity, with common sense and humility. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] Reply Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. A demand generation manager’s responsibilities involve creating and distributing targeted content ( blog posts , podcasts, and thought leadership) that educates potential customers on solving common challenges relevant to their product or industry.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path. Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2019

She pioneered the role of Chief Customer Officer, even wrote a book with that title and she’s held the first ever Chief Customer Officer job for over 20 years at places like Lands’ End, Microsoft, Caldwell Banker and Allstate. And she’s also written a newish book called Would You Do That to Your Mother?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) In 1978 when I joined my first company , information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Reply Nathan Furr , on September 24, 2009 at 9:20 am Said: Great post and wise advice. I wonder if the greater challenge for many CEOs is recognizing that customers need to be fired at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

A while back I found some great business leadership insights in “ The Secrets of Tuned In Leaders ”, by Craig Stull, Phil Myers & David Meerman Scott. Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

A while back I found some great business leadership insights in “ The Secrets of Tuned In Leaders ”, by Craig Stull, Phil Myers & David Meerman Scott. Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. Were they vertically integrated ? She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. If so, why?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It is pity that I can’t get hold of your book because it’s not available in a local bookstore (in the Philippines). Reply steveblank , on March 23, 2009 at 12:11 am Said: Alvin, you can buy the book online at [link] They ship to the Philippines. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Get out of the building, get some more customer feedback, spin your product and go back and read the book. If not, you don’t have enough data for a VC presentation. Lessons Learned” – A New Type of VC Pitch A Customer Development fundraising presentation tells the story of your journey in Customer Discovery and Validation.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

But one thing just occurred to me, it has been 5 years since you last wrote your book. I strongly feel it is important and having this fear can’t be helpful in anyway. In order to alleviate the fears of my colleagues, I plan on showing this entry. How prevalent would you say this process is?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

PS2- Is there any way I can buy your book in PDF format? Fantastic book, and applicable across all disciplines of life. Your methodologies have been life changing for me and my company. I couldn’t find it anywhere here in Brazil and International shipping takes weeks to get here. It is essential to attain this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

A while back I found some great product leadership guidance in “ The Secrets of Tuned In Leaders ”, by Craig Stull, Phil Myers & David Meerman Scott. Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] I feel that I’ve derived as much value from this post as I would from reading 2 or 3 lengthy books on the topic. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. Reading a few of the basic books on selling and influence (just google for a list) 2. For the former, books can help. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The way to both vertically and horizontally align an organization to engage in innovation with increased success rates is through Innovation Engineering — a reliable process, grounded in data, backed by academic theory and validated in real-world practice. His new book,” Driving Eureka!: But ideas can’t be random.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. what Market Type is your startup?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books [.] Reply Touching the hot stove | Hot Trends 2 Tweet , on August 14, 2009 at 7:28 am Said: [.] 1978 when I joined my first company, information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist. Thanks Steve, Great insight. Great read. Inspiration strikes again!

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