Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Back in 2004 when Eric and his IMVU co-founder Will Harvey approached me about investing in IMVU, I agreed on one condition – they had to take my Customer Development class at UC Berkeley Haas Business School.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? that add texture.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Well before the web existed, I was physically tearing articles out of industry magazines and sending them to customers, prospects, other entrepreneurs, and my partner Dave, who probably got tired of the stack of paper with notes scribbled on them that landed on his desk each day.

Technical Review 154

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Palantir is a deep technical play and we had a lot of code to write just to fill out the product vision that we had already validated with potential customers; it took us two straight years of development to go from early prototypes to software that could be used in production. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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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 Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. Having an hour set aside per day helped us stick to that.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Great Agencies achieves this by ranking the top vendors in specific niche markets within digital marketing, such as search engine optimization (SEO) agencies, pay-per-click (PPC) agencies, reputation management and branding companies, iOS application development, and Android application development companies, to name a few.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004. He's a podcast advertising specialist and also founded the tech podcast network way back in the dinosaur days of podcasting 2004. That was the one they started in 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth). Entrepreneurship business Cloud Computing DevOps management Wall Street' Long live DevOps!

Phoenix 175

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SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. Much of it is still IT (internal) or custom. So the Agile trainer must understand how commitments are made and managed in a product team. See [link] 3.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I was working hard to climb the ladder in the car business and had been helping customers at work with budgeting, and building their credit. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. When new management took over, they slowly started stripping the. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. Only start a business if you are deeply passionate about solving the underlying problem for your customers. My next venture didn’t fare much better. Write it down on a napkin. Rob’s advice.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

.” You’ve diplomatically explained to the client that they really should be using custom photography, but they insist that you find a “better/cheaper representation online.” Looking at you Customer Service girl. Step 2: See if you can get a “Rights Managed” license (optional).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. 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. The Past (1985-2002).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Once a company has raised $2-3 million dollars I often advise them to get an office manager. I will quote one portfolio company CEO who said about his office manager, “Mark, this is the most important hire we made last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. One (thing) we have talked about in the past is a lack of Product Managers, experienced technology Product Managers. (in in LA and Boulder) Is that true?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The answer most likely lies in the fact that existing businesses know a bit more about their customers and what their needs are than a new startup does. More importantly, re-visit your plan as you grow and revise it as you learn more about your business and your customers. Being prepared matters when you’re seeking funding.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. Mostly smartphones + restaurateurs attitude towards viewing the internet as a customer acquisition tool. A lot has changed.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer. Photo Credit: Paul Bowley.

Entrepreneur 92

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You need an image that represents “freedom” or “happiness” or ::shutter:: “corporate synergy” You’ve diplomatically explained to the client that they really should be using custom photography, but they insist you find a “better/cheaper representation online.” But did it stop there?

Stock 129

Stock Software Review Lead Generation Arizona 129

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. For venture capitalist, Paul Suster , it’s not just the individual; the ‘management team’ is essential. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product […] If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest. A management team they believe in.

Exit Strategy 91

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

It also works as a fully featured mobile application, and retailers can manage their shop on the go through the mobile app. Perhaps coincidentally, it was a service that existing SingTel customers were looking for. Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. We wanted customers to know where we specialized, so leather had to be part of the title. Photo Credit: Hani Abdou. Cepeda, Broken Chains, LLC ! #6-

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Creating new industries is incredibly expensive, gaining customers when you have no prior track record is hard, and product or service performance rarely hits the mark immediately. These things take iterations and updating through customer feedback.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. Dwelling on Things. "A

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 5, 2004

Fred Wilson has a great post about building a “customer-obsessed company” as opposed to a “technology-obsessed company.” ” One important point when working with customers is to make sure that you do not support too many “one-off” requests. As you ramp, this is not an ideal solution.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

TorFX was founded in 2004. One significant benefit with TorFX is that you’ll get a dedicated Account Manager who’ll support you with financial knowledge and provide you with market movements. World First began in 2004 with its founders’ desire to give customers an alternative to big banks when it comes to money transfers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Organizational consultant and customer service expert Joseph A. Michelli recently sat down with Young Upstarts to share his insights on Airbnb’s approach to customer engagement, loyalty and referrals — and how they can be utilized by any industry. The Airbnb Way is my ninth business book since 2004. What’s your main focus?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The term Domain-Driven Design was originally coined by Eric Evans in his book, “Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” which came out in 2004, so this isn’t a new concept. To that end, DDD promotes beginning by grouping similar customer problems together.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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