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. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” What could be wrong with more transparency?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5 Global manufacturing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch. We wrote recently about using social media for market research. Image source ).

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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Sales enablement is the act of enabling salespeople to help them close more deals/bring in more revenue/hit their quota. The two aren’t disconnected, though. Image Source. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. That “survival mode” meant “that they later must spend far more than they saved in order to recover from their prolonged absence from the media landscape.”. “If

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Would that be perceived as “better enough” to get them to change their media consumption behavior? To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). They controlled distribution to the masses. Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Graham was happy for his client. Toshiba Laptops.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Today, AWS is on pace for a $14 billion revenue year – just for one relatively new segment of Amazon’s business. Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Our third-party seller business is an example of that. We didn’t give up. Millennials.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. My favorite quote of the show, “Gregg, what’s the mix of revenue types?&# JibJab doesn’t do ad revenue at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Software Helps companies rapidly convert unstructured online data and content into structured data assets that can be used to create new products, revenue Streams, and enhance current online data sets.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. The internet has already had meaningful impact on industries ranging from commerce to media to software.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? Digital marketers and experts around the world say that content SaaS startups should spend an average of 50% resources on strategic content distribution. Look at your product photo and description. Does the description look as if it was written by a five-year-old?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app. Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. That’s not the way to build a brand.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. For many locally focused marketplaces, its significantly more valuable to dominate a single DMA than thinly penetrate multiple DMA’s given the same revenue traction. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Management.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. 8% of people cite slow loading pages as a key reason for abandoning their purchase. Pretty useful stuff. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Craze Productions. Flash Networks. GoNet Systems.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. You’ll see my pet peeves about what media entities don’t measure in this cluster of recommendations…. A quick best practice.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Once you’ve done that – then.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers. The post Jamdat Mobile files for IPO appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Are there ways that you’ve seen local businesses use this in a way that might effectively drive revenue? [19:23] So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. One is, you know, potentially revenue. And obviously social media has oh, geographic constraints. There was a, a guide.

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