Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? Real-time conversations and dynamic curation of news stories empowers people to expand their social networks and personal expertise about topics important to them. What if I was wrong? Would anyone even show up?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 17, 2010

We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. wants to talk to me about it, I’d at least entertain the conversation around getting an entrepreneur in there to start with their userbase and a running product start—or combine it with some similar opportunities we’re seeing in the space.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2017

With over 400 million users to date, a recent acquisition by Microsoft , and a revamped user interface, LinkedIn seems poised to be the best platform for you to get leads, job opportunities, and keep the conversation going with the white collared community. Adds value to the existing conversation. And it is. LinkedIn Groups.

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 28, 2011

If you don’t have either performance data or best practices, then you need to either charge based on performance (which nobody will be happy about, including you) or spend a while as your own guinea pig running a [set of] user-facing campaign[s]. Both of these take a while and won’t generate revenue. Open problems in UGC.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. At a TNC event at our house in June 2016, I had a conversation with Mark Tercek , TNC’s CEO, around innovation. TNC’s global reach makes it a very exciting organization to support.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2014

If you’ve got a highly engaged online community of a few hundred, then any content you share will be received warmly, discussed and shared. In simplistic terms, Facebook’s algorithm will recognize this, and will then broaden the reach of the post to your wider community. Fake Likes Can Be Harmful.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

You know, you keep seeing someone often enough at group events that eventually you think you know one another despite actually never having a 1:1 conversation? We were guinea pigs then as the second class! And you can move incredibly fast in a unified way with that sort of communication.

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