Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It’s relatively small business, but I had a big part in helping build the infrastructure for the firm and hiring people and kind of the whole business development side and just really helping a firm grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Build a product, get it into the real world, measure customers’ reactions and behaviors, learn from this, and use what you’ve learned to build something better. Repeat, learning whether to iterate, pivot or restart until you have something that customers love. Waterfall Development. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Valuable customer data is buried in these disconnected tools. launched a contact management software.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

The company loses customers, then revenues and profits decline and it eventually gets acquired or goes out of business. valued by their existing customers – fairly well. Yet most research has shown that disruptive innovation, that is innovations that go after new markets, new customers, new technologies, etc.

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Search Agile Customer Development Technical Review 242

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo simple enough to be self-service). Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

But even well-prepared startups that have laid out strategies for scaling can find themselves scrambling in the face of a fast-growing customer base. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

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Metrics Founder CTO Hire Technical Review 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2018

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. The company had no real process in place for developing its product, even as the product was doing well. “We Everyone from engineers and designers to customer service and support staff was included.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

Key Takeaway: AI prompts can help marketers generate new concepts, research thoroughly, and develop effective marketing strategies for their clients. And this will give you a real taste of how we view strategy, how we've, how we develop strategy. 02:36] AI prompts to create more potent marketing strategies. [05:50] Like this show?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. The key to win those new customers was simplicity and intuitiveness. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. The answer is yes.

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PHP Management HTML Framework 143

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We hadn’t even thought about having a customer support line or who would staff it. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our customers were generally happy but they were pushing us hard for promised features. We developed deep kinship.

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PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. Millennials spend a lot of their time on social media platforms, so it’s imperative for brands to develop their own social handles. Customers can also comment on an Instagram or Facebook post, and can communicate with the brand in real time.

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Marketing eCommerce Technical Review Social Media 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2013

In the meatier second part of the book – The Art of the Tell – we’re walked through a three step process to develop compelling stories of our own: 1) Ready… Preparation is the key to success. c) an ending with a resolution that ignites a call for action from the listener. . The Art of the Tell.

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Technical Review Audience Social Media Media 133

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In this article, you’ll understand how to build a memorable brand that your customers want to buy from. Your brand is your reputation – that intangible thing that determines whether your customers trust you above the rest.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. 6- Passion for empowerment Photo Credit: Lachlan Brown It all started with a passion for psychology and personal development. As a certified numismatist, this too fits the image we wanted to convey to customers.

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Naming Entrepreneur Technical Review Design 130

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. I understand his frustration.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do. I know because I did this in early 2000. I think he really learned from this experience: Experience comes from bad judgment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Understanding the relationship between humans and technology is the key to responsible development and acceptance of future technologies in almost every application field, be it energy, health, work, learning, or entertainment. The finished artwork is then sent back to the customers within a month or so of the order placed.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. As a business person, one must understand the existing customers and their differences.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Software Review United Kingdom Affiliate 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions. Image source ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

Small Business and Startup Tips: Enjoying Your Customers For Profit and Fun – crowdspring.co/1jy0bxm. Small Business and Startup Tips: Enjoying Your Customers For Profit and Fun – crowdspring.co/1jy0bxm. Become a Master Typographer: 19 Expert Secrets Creating Custom Lettering – crowdspring.co/1sES4l3.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Customers (who are the users, payers, buyers, etc.) This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

It’s companies are different to traditional economy companies because they are focused on delighting customers and rapid innovation. The creative economy – a real economy that generates real products and services. Creative economy companies typically enjoy fast growth. Good examples of firms are Apple, Amazon, Whole Foods and Costco.

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Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation.

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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