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Times Square Strategy Session ā€“ Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, ā€œIā€™m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…ā€ It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.

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Best of Breed

thebarefootvc

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Has the U.S. Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Ā« Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine itā€™s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Has the U.S. Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1

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Two Overlooked Aspects Of Your Site Design That May Be Hurting Conversions

ConversionXL

As an informal observation, it’s not uncommon to see different companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the 6 most important factors in building trust with an eCommerce company are : Brand. Navigation.