Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

Mix and match services depending on what works for you; you could easily start a business involving full-service pet help, including walks, trips to the groomer, sitting during the day, and so on. Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )? Driving for Uber.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience. Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then. The mind, as a defense against the volume of today’s communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered. – Al Ries.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

I think there’s a startup sweet spot, for most startups, in which the resources available match the opportunity. And my own company, Palo Alto Software, might not have survived the dot-com crash in 2001 if we’d had more money to spend in 1999. Money is spent the right way, building the business, but without overspending.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Ive had the good fortune to both work for and invest in successful tech start-ups. Ive also invested in a number of start-up failures. They looked like a sure winner. Your comment has not yet been posted.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

They could be more descriptive (Highrise in particular is hard to match to its functionality), but they’re just fine as they are. ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. Sure, you could get music from the internet, but not in a legal way. Everyone else’s experience proves that!”

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. I can''t guarantee that I''ll be able to accomodate everyone--because I''ve been mixing and matching people that I think would make a great group, and there are variables like times, dates, neighborhoods, food preferences.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

Mistake 1: Looking for a sample plan that’s an exact match. It really doesn’t matter if it’s an exact match in this case. Look for a sample plan that’s a relatively close match, but don’t get hung up on the details. Let’s say you’re opening a Pakistani restaurant. 50 below the state’s current minimum wage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I would say people who have known me and followed me for a long time, this book probably was a very good match. I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. How has that fan base, if you’ll call them that, reacted to the book? I don’t get it. 17, 18 years at Moz? Rand Fishkin: Yeah.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 22, 2018

Think of C-3PO from Star Wars, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. When it played 5 matches against one of the world’s top Go players, not even the creators fully understood what it was thinking.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. ” This was around 2001. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. — Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Here’s how writer Julie Bush describes callbacks, “Callbacks help us feel like things are matching up. 2001) iPod 1st generation. It’s reassuring. It all comes together in the end.”. After the success of the original iPod campaign, Apple used callbacks in their slogans. 10,000 songs in your pocket.” 2004) iPod 4th generation.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Matching federal dollars are available for attending private colleges that also give veterans financial aid. The benefits, which took effect in August 2009, vastly improve educational opportunities for American veterans who have served at least 30 days after Sept.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

That kind of innovation matters, but it’s pretty rare and I think an improvement, a new way, the definition I like is a new match between a solution and a need. That’s important, right? What he was trying to do was compliment the Mac.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. Check out one of these directories for a magazine that matches your skillset. Become a Trainer It’s generally accepted that recessions boost college enrollment.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Again, it comes back to that point of if your numbers don’t quite match, a lot of us know where we’re weak. That’s some 2001 stuff right there. Some people don’t understand, why do I have to have past accounting plus past returns. That’s part of the reason. We weren’t just weak. We were terrible.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. So, if that was the case, and the market was competitive, why wouldn't each VC be bidding up a round up until the point where they could get the return that matches their own cost of capital?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

9 billion matches, downloadable app. ” These charts are similar, demonstrating that the homepage really hasn’t changed much since 2001. In 2001, 45% of the screen was useful (content, navigation, or logo/tagline). Find a life-long friend or maybe your wife. How is it useful to me? And… Unique?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. But they never really dropped the idea. Rita McGrath: The opportunity for getting close to customers revived again after Apple introduced the first iPod.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Since so many distinguished people report a broad variety of qualitative bubble signs, let’s attempt to pattern match the quantitative data. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. It’s the valuation:value ratio. Much better.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. A 2001 study found that descriptive menu labels at restaurants “increased sales by 27% and improved attitudes towards the food, attitudes toward the restaurant, and intentions toward repatronage.” X is the input and Y is the output.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Message match. The concept of scent really began in 2001 , when a Xerox Palo Alto Researcher, Dr. Ed Chi, reported that the way humans track information is not unlike the way that animals track food. Match your messages with users’ intent, from wherever the traffic flows. Look at how well they match: Image Source.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2016

I also seemed to have had a typo in my matching email! NN/g offered the following best practices in 2001 and they still hold up: Visible and highly noticeable, both in terms of the message itself and how it indicates which dialogue element users must repair. Email invalid? Forgot the.com. The 4 H’s of Error Messages.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And we’ve certainly seen in the past that when the markets shift their focus from growth to profitability they do so pretty quickly (briefly in 2011, before that in 2008 and dramatically in 2000/2001). Smart growth is the right strategy (I said this months ago at our Summit as well). More soon…

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. #4- Our main focus. Photo Credit: LaVon Koerner. We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

You’re no match for Amazon in this regard, and hence I don’t really see a reason using your service, really. Honestly your site looks very 2001. I don’t feel you’re selling the book enough – you don’t make people WANT to buy the book. Add more value! Make it more obvious. Such things diminish trust.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

When you consider that 88% of people leave their jobs for a position with a matching or lower salary you come to understand that the reasons for changing companies is rarely financial. In this article I will talk about some approaches that have continued to work for my company, Fog Creek, over the last 15 years. Invest more in what counts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

They’ve been profitable since 2001. It’s just we’ve renamed to match our pillars, but it’s a study that we’ve been doing for these big companies and small companies for years and years and years. That part is nothing new. What I think Jeff [00:09:30] has done is how he’s turned it to scale.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Their odds of a successful match went up accordingly. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier. Among the first heavy users of online dating sites were minorities (LBGT, Muslim, Latino, etc.), Similarly, sites like LinkedIn are effectively dating sites for businesspeople.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject. March 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm. This is drivel.Net has value types, easy integration with native code dlls, lamdas and the dlr. William Pearson.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The interests and/or needs of the prospect need to match your offering, your content. Patricia Wolfe, Brain Matters (2001). People are generally capable of a longer attention span when they are doing something that they find enjoyable or intrinsically motivating – says Wikipedia. This just confirms what Seinfeld said.

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