Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Stock options for all employees of startups served several purposes: Because startups didn’t have much cash and couldn’t compete with large companies in salary offers, stock options dangled in front of a potential employee were like offering a lottery ticket in exchange for a lower salary. Why would they do that? That made sense.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Looking at the winner and the runners-up in the event, three big lessons stand out on how companies can differentiate themselves in crowded markets: 1. By eliminating the pain points associated with non-dairy ice creams, Minus the Moo gets rid of the need for a tradeoff and taps into a large pocket of demand.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Unsurprisingly, there’s some feedback that seems to hold true across the board, including the importance of having a good online presence, a solid understanding of SEO , a niche or a well-defined target audience , brilliant people skills, and the ability to manage your contacts and connections. Step 1: Planning.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The way that I define PR, basically, is that it’s raising your visibility to your awareness, to your target market, in a unique and differentiating manner. Also, what differentiates that is critical. For established entrepreneurs, yes, we already are competing against one another. You need to do it right.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They build on business assets and trade secrets, they often leverage "remnant" organizational resources, and diversification of revenues and customers is a sought after business goal is it not? And external in their evaluation of the market landscape in which that business competes. Everything can just seem really hard.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. To give context, compare market share changes with objective measures such as changes in total industry spending and company revenue, and strategic changes. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Look at the market size and the number of competing products. If there isn’t enough differentiation from competitors, the venture will fail. At this point, everyone loses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. The stocks are managed as REITs (real estate investment trusts) and their tenants are you skis, bikes and winter clothes. ” Let’s start with some basics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

Managers can turn this depressing situation around and create the ultimate win-win. By developing both the aspiration and the ability to more effectively serve and care for the people on their teams, managers can become leaders people actually want to follow. We need to listen non-critically to ideas. Yikes, right?

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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). I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

OpenAI is a for-profit, running a venture fund, etc — what types of ‘partnership risk’ is there in backing alternatives who are competing with OpenAI funded startups. AI ‘Middleware’ In a multi-base model world, won’t there be some value created by dynamically switching between models depending on the use case?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You are a news site like The New York Times or you are a non-profit like Idealist or you are the team running Google Maps. I recommend segmenting the traffic and measuring revenue lift but also measuring the average order size, if you did your job right then that latter number should be higher. I am using Compete for the above report.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. I always recommend organic growth options first for things that represent your core competency, since it does allow you to better protect intellectual property, and retain and motivate key team members. Investigate strategic alliance alternatives.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Whether you're sitting on a non-profit board for young entrepreneurs or offering pro-bono services, you have the amazing opportunity to empower others. Having my own business helps me explore business opportunities and compete against other companies to provide the best service or product that allows me to make profits sustainably.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. I’ll put it in simple terms for non salespeople. Who will manage yours? And we’re not trying to compete directly with that. Why Buy Anything ?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle has made serving non-GMO foods a key element of their brand promise.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

08:35): Like not just to, you know, fill a pipeline full of, of, of leads to throw over, to, to nurture and eventually end up in sales, but to really tell a story in a way that is going to differentiate us and our products and our services. I mean, there are, if you're competing with the people writing $10 blog posts, you're in trouble. ,

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2012

It stands to reason that if you want more out of life, you’ll need to seek some non-traditional education that will help you cultivate the skills that will enable you to generate multiple streams of income. so that you can compete and win customers. That’s assuming they can get a good job at all in today’s economy, of course.)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Three Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail. She is technically super competent (regex anyone?). One sweet feature that differentiates segment creation in Google Analytics from that of other vendors is the ability to do real time QA (quality control) and test the segment you have created.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Iridion – Optimization Workflow Management for free. Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). Logos from prominent companies mattered more than those from non-prominent companies.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. This might just change. It was anti-social in nature.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Craze Productions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.)

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases/disorders, but it’s our intuition these are best left to 100% focused HC investors). People price differentiate all the time. Isn’t Stanford just giving you better MRIs? Bill Gurley : Absolutely.

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