Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend. If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Its employees and investors don’t depend on an existing revenue stream. What can a company do?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

And indeed, as more and more people rely on the internet when it comes to shopping for the solutions they need, businesses will have to focus on building an effective content marketing strategy. In order to compete within your industry, you will need to analyze, create, and distribute content that attracts the right people.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Salesforce Distributed Marketing refers to the marketing platform that companies embrace when some consumer touchpoints of their brand lie outside the general eco-system of corporate marketing. Distributed marketing helps businesses fill in this void, especially when they are engaged in marketing across multiple channels.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work. That works for almost all markets.

Intellectual Property 290

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

Intellectual Property 436

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures makespace' I’m long NY. I’m long MakeSpace.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook gets everyone on the same page.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Size of the market. One of the criteria for a good investment is a large and fast growing “potential market.” Investors will talk to their own experts on the size of the potential market and the expected growth rate. Sales and marketing strategy. Having a great product or service is not enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Products too expensive for the market won’t succeed, and prices too low will leave you exposed. Match with competitor prices and market demographics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. At the left of the graph is the “head end” of the market, where the “hits” are produced for mass audiences. Why is that? Even a hundred.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. It doesn’t mean that if you have technical skills you can’t build a successful company. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. If you’re a startup it’s easy to get confused on this step.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Look at different customer acquisition channels, how they are converting, and the expected lifetime value of customers acquired through those channels. Apply costs to each channel. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

One of the business side effects of the pandemic is that it has put a very sharp light on Marketing budgets. From there, it is a hop, skip, and a jump to, hey, am I getting all the credit I should for the Conversions being driven by my marketing tactics? Two of the holiest of holy grails in Marketing: Attribution, Incrementality.

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Analytics Marketing Channel Conversion 148

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2018

Good B2B Content Marketing is not new in the world of marketing, especially with the emergence of more and more distribution platforms, each needing signups, and consistent postings to become a relevant source in your content strategy. Some relate content marketing to PR and will even use them interchangeably.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the business model.

Startup 296

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the business model.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Rob Sobers said about the marketing growth strategy, “It’s not about tactics—it’s about people and process.”. When it comes to process, growth marketers must learn to fail. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time. Growth marketing is about process over tactics.

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Marketing Framework Metrics Channel 115

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

With content automation capabilities, businesses can efficiently produce and distribute content aligned with their board-level objectives. This centralization improves content discoverability, eliminates duplication, and enables efficient content reuse across multiple channels.

Software Review 155

Software Review Software Small Business Social Media 155

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. Demand generation meets this new market behavior and places much more emphasis on providing value before potential buyers ever see a sales message.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. This kind of uncertainty and market shifts create the kinds of opportunities that we love to see, and has driven our seed investments in current market leaders like ThredUp and Dia&Co with many more opportunities ahead. The Biggest Opportunities in Apparel.

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Internet eCommerce Bankruptcy Technical Review 209

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

In fact, the last few weeks have been particularly devastating for the market. The opportunity here is in improving communication channels through the plethora of tools that technology and the internet offer. Adding value can also mean reimagining your product distribution. You can even tap into the growing ecommerce market.

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Small Business SBA Small Business Administration SEO 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Nail the business model.

Startup 245

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 245

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Exporting allows you to reach new customers, diversify your market, and enhance your brand’s reputation. However, entering international markets comes with its own set of challenges. Understanding Export Readiness Before diving into international markets, it’s crucial to assess if your business is ready for exporting.

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Distribution Technical Review PPC Channel 152

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

by Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex. Marketing automation software. In today’s market, businesses need to employ a combination of inbound and outbound marketing techniques to attract qualified buyers across all channels. Customer relationship management software.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102