Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

The rest is worth reading as well. 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 [.] If you have, I’d be very interested in your take on it. steve Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Little did we know.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The rest is just fluff. I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. This is my new favorite post on your blog.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Why is it only alarming now? Because the company based its headcount and expenses on the expectation that the Sales organization will bring in revenue according to plan.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. 14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority.

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Steve Blank

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.) Its Woz-inspired creativity set the tone for the rest of the project.&#

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. Me: How are we doing on the Nastran port? Jim: Wonderful, they said they’ll get back to me next month. Me: How about Dyna 3D ? Jim: It’s going great, we’re on their list. After hearing the same report for the nth week, I called a halt to the meeting.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We We need your decision now because we are about to spend $50,000 on new collateral.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

A great vacation with my wife wasn’t going to make up for being AWOL from home the rest of the year. Some of these problems began with the 19th century Romanticist notion of artists as mad geniuses, in elevated isolation from the rest of us. People need to be left alone sometimes because they need other people.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. The formula for exits was a variation of the formula they used in the Internet bubble, morphing into: brand, hype and sell the company. So what’s left?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. ParamountQuote.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your suggestion for picking a niche assumes you’ve thought through the rest of the Market Type alternatives. It is related to business model. Not sure I would make the same definitive statements about best bet for Market Type. Validation requires revenue/orders if you’re in a business that sells product. Great quote.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

With an effective brand visibility strategy, you can rest assured that brand recognition will be high – and that people will be capable of discovering your brand. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Memorability. But where does the relationship go from there? . How much growth is reasonable to achieve?

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In exchange for doing this repeatedly, you get to learn the rest of the business. All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. The school you went to. The company you’re currently working at. Climate sustainability.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Yes, but Salesforce is betting that if you’ve brought your prospect to the point of sale on their platform you’d rather do the rest right there if it’s easy to do so. What is platform thinking?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And the rest is history. Mike may have “fathered&# FM-CW OTH ardar at Stanford and SRI, but the rest of OTH radar technology had its beginnings at NRL, Raytheon, Sylvania, and ITT. Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Instead of focusing on “technical specs&# like the rest of the category, we are redefining to Information Delivery as the category with time/cost to Actionable Info as the metric, which is something we can compete on very well. Reply Dave Goulden , on March 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm Said: I love the redefinition of the market.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

This is different from the rest. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against the left vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) actually claim it’s better. If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left. Modified Delphi method.

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

John is starting to worry that Jane and the rest of the marketing team don’t get his product. Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs. His corrections from the press release aren’t in it. The feature descriptions are wrong in an entirely new way because “the copywriter” took a pass.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. The only way to build a successful best of breed solution is to create significant value for your customers by solving a big enough problem in a way the rest of the market can’t.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). The rest is history.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Therefore I’m not sure what to make of the rest of their conclusions. That may be the case for the 549 founders they interviewed, but only 4.5% of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like. steve Michael F.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Since then, and after resting aside my ego, I placed myself back in my VC shoes to try to understand what “proof” such VCs needed to feel comfortable with an eCommerce investment. What were they missing? Why weren’t they seeing what I was seeing?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

This is different from the rest. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better. If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left. Modified-Delphi method.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Occupations and hobbies are best. July 1st, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

And the rest of the advice on this blog is irrelevant. And even if you did it’s the wrong focus, and time spent for a startup 2. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

Too often, companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. more years than the rest. There’s a balance between avoiding “innovative” design—which can put off consumers—and seeking out a unique visual style. Another study looked into the persistence of first impressions.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. They read the most important headlines and subheadlines, but read the rest of the text selectively.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

Successful on your platform but not sticking to guidelines, can also affect the rest of your customers - you need to help developers become more successful - can you outsource support in an authentic way?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. With 317 million people the U.S. has a large enough market that most U.S. Outside the U.S. entrants.)

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