Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To improve accuracy Google and Bing both are attempting to understand what is actually meant by a search and refine results based on things like recency, location, context and of course relevance. Google officially rolled out a new search algorithm recently that employs a great deal of their progress in semantic search.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. Search for “social CRM” and “social loyalty” and you’ll find lots of examples of companies linking Facebook and Twitter to their loyalty programs. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Since December, Via Codigo's clients can query for Via Codigo as a special skill using Transformify's search engine, and easily hire Via Codigo developers. It began working in Peru 5 years ago and is at the moment training and finding jobs for 2000 vulnerable teenagers for free per year.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. I understand his frustration. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 SEO For Facebook Graph Search? Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Those tools now embraced by startups searching for new business models “also happen to have arrived just in time to help existing companies deal with the forces of continual disruption. Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The lean startup model is not new.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2022

If you want your website to be seen by more people, you need to rank higher on search engines. In this post, we will discuss the most important and actionable SEO tips that you can follow to increase your rankings on search engines. Consider Search Intent. Do Keyword Research. Improve Your On-Page SEO.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

You probably know that SEO stands for “search engine optimisation” and is the process of driving traffic to your website from organic search engine results such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. The fact of the matter is that search engine optimisation can be game changing for any business if done properly.

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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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. You now have an hourly rate range to work with.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

So I started my own law firm, rather than going through what I feared would be a humiliating job search, filled with other candidates who had followed a more traditional path. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. To learn more about Yahoo, we search on Google. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. The consequences of this are well known to us today.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. Ajeet Singh. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. Ajeet Singh. And download any of the past shows here.).

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives. Draft your market plan and our target market.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

”The win is also a testament to the ingenuity and creativity of a commercial entity working with A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) scientists in turning lab research into a viable consumer product.” Cloud based multi-platform Contextual Visual Search. The Gladius.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

It’s kind of a shady site, but what it is basically is it’s like a web proxy so you can go to Google, use an IP address that’s in the States and search through it, and the cool thing is is that it’s not a VPN so it doesn’t have your browser history or any of that stuff implementing it. Brian Dean: Oh definitely.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Try Google.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

He retrieved all documents by searching his email to find the one to which they were last attached, or, more often, he called me to re-send something and therefore move it up in his email stack. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Paisley is OK.)

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

routers, search engines) and in the deployment period it shifts to applications that are higher up the stack and to utilising the new technology across all industries. My reading of the tea leaves is that there is a good chance that the financial instability that has dogged us since 2008 is in its final phases.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective. Jack McGuinness: So I feel like, through that experience, not only did I learn how to become a good managing consultant and help build the firm, but I also learned another part of I’m an engineer with an MBA.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

In my case, I grew up in an apartment in a country in Europe where we refer to apartments to as “flats” After an exhaustive search and writing down name after name it dawned on me. Finally, after months of searching, I found springpop. The right name should be timeless, proprietary, easy to say and it should stand for something.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2017

Chances are, you will go online and enter your query into a search engine, such as Google & Bing. billion searches every day. Also, 94% of people clicked on first-page search results. Also, 94% of people clicked on first-page search results. Thanks to Search Engine Watch ). Google receives over 3.5

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day. Completely necessary.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing). There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC).

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. It took an idea that hardly worked on an Intranet - remote manipulation of tightly-specified objects - and tried to make it work on the Internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

John: So I guess I’ll start off with because you write so much about local digital marketing, local search stuff. John: And where does voice search go with that? What results are you getting from voice search? Great to be with you again and great to be with your audience again. David: Yup. David: Okay. David: Yep.

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