Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. (Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Implement a consistent demand generation engine. The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. Every year around this time – it starts: endless holiday sales. It’s the same thing year after year.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In this interesting, three-minute clip from 2002 (courtesy of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner ), Larry shares the following solid nuggets for entrepreneurs: very few companies are founded on technological innovation; most companies are marketing or sales driven, not engineering driven; engineers too often get excited about things that (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

So they use a pre-made solution, customize the appearance, plug in sales tax and ecommerce software, and then sell immediately. Because of the base product and its flexibility, getting from nothing to international sales is quick. since 2002 and its Chief Executive Officer since February 8, 2006.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. MPM BioVentures III (2002): 76% (44%). Engineering jobs. Sales jobs. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Job Search. Accounting jobs.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Back in 2002, The Seattle Times wrote an article about a young company called Affinova that “has figured out how to harness the power of natural selection,” for product evolution. They’ve come a long way since 2002 and have since been acquired by Nielsen: Of course, this evolution used by Affinova used attitudinal data to make decisions.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. Is it a sales pitch or an opinion? The first search engine result that is not an ad appears promising: EnergyLab.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. Why would they be coming into your site on a different page? John: PR wants some event calendar.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Furthermore, its online sales plunged by 8.1% Year-on-year, same-store sales tanked, and they have been negative for eight quarters now. Remember Digg.com?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. John Jantsch (06:05): Yeah, yeah.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The services offered post-sale are not necessarily well-regarded and in the worst case may be considered “nickel and dime” – though that may be changing. But don’t worry it’s a strong sales culture with great salesmanship that may certainly help you out at renewal time.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

3M acquired Attenti, which is expected to have about $100 million in sales in 2010, to get into electronic monitoring devices, which leads to large savings for correctional authorities. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. And so we built our company.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Founded in 2002 by Notre Dame grads Xavier Helgesen, Chris “Kreece” Fuchs, and Jeff Kurtzman, Better World’s mission is to maximize the value of every book out there and to help promote literacy around the world. B corporation Better World Books is an amazing example of a truly successful social entrepreneurship venture.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. The aim nowadays should be to create great content that directly converts into sales. Personalized sales message. Chris Mercer – How Top Marketers Are Using Google Tag Manager To Improve their Sales & Leads. Pillars : Content/SEO, Paid, Growth engineering, Referrals.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07.

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