Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Reply Lean Startup Customer Discovery & the Value of First Impressions , on January 25, 2010 at 6:12 am Said: [.] Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. Then WHAT it IS?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. I was an idiot.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. Just a reflection on my family and hopes for our children. Blog at WordPress.com.

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JULY 20, 2009

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Reply Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action « Steve Blank , on November 9, 2009 at 6:02 am Said: [.] to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Blog at WordPress.com.

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APRIL 9, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. The downside of OpenAI is the cost, platform dependency and limitations of its API.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles. I ultimately answered that call, joining Sun Microsystems with a 3-digit employee number.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

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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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MARCH 20, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. For example, after looking at the broader market, we saw that a service that helps marketers scale their video content was in demand. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Everyone Else is an Idiot The theme of our press blitz was all about how we were going to show the old tired game companies the right way to make video games. Rocket Science seems like they were just another group of people to founder on the rocks of injecting “Hollywood&# sensibilities and story driven entertainment into video games.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Dollar Shave Club’s product launch strategy involved a series of humorous videos that skyrocketed user growth to 3.2 Image source.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This will impact the world of media and entertainment in a profound way, across three areas: Content Generation : Generative AI is capable of creating diverse forms of content, including text, images, music, and video. billion in earn out based on performance.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. For example, in the awareness stage use how-to guides, whitepapers, explainer videos, etc. The video itself uses subtitles. User privacy.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. Considering that nearly 2 million Americans fall victim to online scams a year, and many scam sites lean heavily on low priced stock photography… the odds are not in your favor. Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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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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Steve Blank

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. Waterfall, Agile, Lean? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Liquidity – How?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. The slides below go with the video. Just click through them as you watch the video. Big thanks for the continued sharing, and certainly the link to Lean Startups.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

It may take the form of text, images or video. The diagram for a fictitious bank website shows two questionable items, namely the staff list and the Karaoke video. If a bank’s annual retreat video goes viral — the one where its CEO reveals a lack of karaoke talent — then the video is popular even if the CEO is not.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. But the next frontier is video. moving pictures) from prompt This post focuses on video footage generation. moving pictures) from prompt This post focuses on video footage generation.

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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]. 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. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. million in losses to online scams in 2019, and many scam sites lean heavily on low-priced stock photography. This post contains video, click to play]. Theory applies to positive and negative experiences.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 22, 2020

With the amount of people posting photos and videos of their Spring Break quarantine, most of us want to have the same experience. We have already pivoted to manufacturing trailers for other verticals. Thanks to Patricia Diesel, Keep It Simple Now, LLC ! #2- 2- Sticking to my routine. Photo Credit: Ashley Oakes Scott. 20- Two ways.

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