YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

In my book, I zeroed in on VanDerveer’s single-minded focus and relentless pursuit of the skills and knowledge that led to her becoming the fourth most winning women’s basketball coach in NCAA history. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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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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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

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

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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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. ” What exactly is a leadership contract? Back to Podcast. Transcript. It’s not for the meek.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

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JULY 20, 2009

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JULY 7, 2009

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

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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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MAY 11, 2009

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MARCH 19, 2009

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

3- Publishing a book. 2019 is a special year because I accomplished one of my life goals which was to publish a book. It took me around 3 months to research and write, I put everything I know into the book. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Photo Credit: Paulius Stankevicius.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

As an example of the extremely high quality of the folks who followed Bill to make ESL great, not only did we have the very best image processing capabilities and the most excellent QRC services around, the IDIMS staff still holds annual reunions because we became a band of brothers (and sisters) under wonderful leadership.

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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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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

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

This lack of information meant that every World War II movie or book that had airplanes on bombing missions in it was wrong. I just put Guerlac’s and Eckert/Schubert’s books in my “to read&# pile. Every one of them. (To To someone who had grown up with reruns of WWII war movies on TV, this was a shock.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You – launching in November 2021. 3:16] Your book The Widest Net seems to go against a little bit of conventional wisdom. Like this show?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

4- Release a new book. I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. This reminds me of a sign I saw in a bookstore in Manhattan: Don’t deal with somebody who doesn’t read books! 10- Build a cohesive leadership team. Can’t wait to outdo ourselves next year! 6- Diversity.

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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

MAY 7, 2009

It’s a challenge to keep the play-book up-to-date as we are doing it. It made sense, but there does have to be a central road map the allows for evolution. I need to keep focused on driving the ball down the field. With all that said – startup is the best job in the world!! Thanks again.

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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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JULY 13, 2009

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

I talk about this in my book and there is always a discussion at the Lean Startup Group at [link]. Is there an existing market or not? You do different things as an entrepreneur when you are creating a new market. You process your customer data differently depending on market type. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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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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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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