Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

The technical elements of your website’s SEO are crucial to search performance. In this article, you’ll learn how to conduct a technical SEO audit to find and fix issues in your website’s structure. Using a technical SEO audit to improve your SEO performance. Think of a technical SEO audit as a website health check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If you are the hot-shot technical innovator that invented your solution, make sure you have an equally adept business and marketing expert to complement your skills. “If If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. It takes the right team to build a great business.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What specific technical innovations might make sense? How can we address this risk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2012

A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances. A required metric is average days to payment compared to expected. If you fail to pay a cash obligation when it is due, the business is technically insolvent. This difference will kill your profit margin.

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Technical Review Startup Finance Cost 273

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Is anyone working with you on this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances. A required metric is average days to payment compared to expectations. If you fail to pay a cash obligation when it is due, the business is technically insolvent. This difference will kill your profit margin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. The startup process has become demystified – information is everywhere. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Insider information. They say the only way to consistently make money on Wall Street is to have insider information. Their products are over-priced, buggy, lacking features, and every experience I've had with their tech support has been atrocious, but man their stuff looks and feels nice! Like what?? Personal authority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Take responsibility for owning an informed strategy. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Through learning milestones approximated to stages of a company’s development, one could achieve positive improvements in a it’s core metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

But when you create a product for a large segment of users who previously couldn’t afford products due to price or complexity and if that product can work at “Internet scale” you have the chance to do something truly amazing. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With so many startups facing a tough journey right from their inception, the pressing question becomes: How does one successfully navigate the tech industry? The key lies in having a groundbreaking idea and understanding the broader tech landscape and the forces shaping it. Focus on Customer Satisfaction Word of mouth travels fast.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Let's get the information we need to get our CEOs, CMOs and CUXOs to unleash a tsunami of creativity and awesomeness when it comes to mobile. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) Framing the Opportunity.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Metrics play a significant role in customer journey analysis, providing quantifiable data that can be analyzed to glean valuable insights. In this blog post, we will delve into the rationale behind monitoring the customer journey, essential metrics for comprehensive analysis, and how segmenting data can provide deeper insights.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2024

To make informed decisions, it’s crucial to have a clear framework for assessing each opportunity. Focusing on specific metrics can help you gain insights into the stability, growth potential, and security of DeFi platforms. This metric shows its popularity and usage. Rapid growth in address count can signal increasing adoption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Yet I would suggest that creating one is still a valuable exercise, since you need the plan as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics, unless your management style makes this a waste of time. With bootstrapping, no business plan is expected by anyone. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The time spent on reviewing decks went down compared to 2021. Going back to the Docsend research, which includes a survey of 300 founders and VCs in addition to their anonymous data collection on thousands of decks shared and reviewed, they found the top components/slides on successful pre-seed decks. what have you learned from them?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. The customer registers on the on-demand courier delivery apps – by submitting the required information. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

I paraphrase here the key challenges he identifies, adding my own insights: Marketing ROI requires cross-enterprise information. If you think it’s hard to get the technical systems to talk to each other, I have found that it’s even harder to bridge the gulf between the various professionals who interpret them.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

The following review will offer insights into one of those leading platforms, CPLOne.com , to give newbie online marketers and advertisers an idea of whether this platform will be right for them. Users can then visit the dashboard to check metrics like ad duration, the number of campaign clicks, and CPL rates. Custom Campaigns.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Sometimes the simplest technology is best. The same lesson applies to our daily life of data and metrics. A good way to check for bad data is to replicate the airplane dashboard method of deriving the same information in two different ways. Trust, but verify.” You stick the tank, in case the gas gauge is lying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Build an experienced technical and executive team.

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Advisory Board Technical Review Metrics Business Model 199

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Shopify is a technological tide in the digital advancement of e-commerce. Currently, Shopify tops the e-commerce industry due to its unique services. Merchant tools such as reports and analytics help you keep an eye on profits and other metrics and make decisions accordingly. Product review requests and. What is Shopify?

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Analytics 182

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. You need to ask questions and perform due diligence before you invest substantial time and money. Think about your employee and ownership hats. Must you wear both simultaneously? Ask tough questions.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If you’re managing your website on your own, make it a point to set aside some time at least every month to check for broken links and update website copy such as your contact information and hours of operation if needed. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time. Lack of technology.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most board meetings are administrative updates that accomplish very little other than inform board members about the performance of the company since the last board meeting. How Most Board Meeting Prep Works I’ve been sitting on tech boards for two decades so I have some experience with what goes wrong. Sometimes they don’t even know.

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Stock Options Metrics Stock Valuation 226

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. In fact, the small brand is likely to become a rising industry star due to the established trust, convenient delivery times, and various payment options available in the marketplace. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Email marketing is all about informing, influencing, and gaining the loyalty of a contact base that’s interested in your product or services. This depends on both technical and behavioural factors. You yourself probably go through endless numbers of emails popping up each week. Automation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. The result?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. But to turn data into insights and money, it’s not enough to simply collect information. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1.

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