Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

And since the card was useless without any application software, what other software products did they use on it? What reviews did they trust? They said the product reviews in these publications were by far the biggest influence on which card to buy. (This made our PR problem manageable and focused. Which ones?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Epitaph for an Entrepreneur » 43 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 15, 2009 at 5:27 am Said: You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite writers about entrepreneurship and start-ups. What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Reply | SocialStartups.com , on July 27, 2009 at 9:55 am Said: [.] You’ve reinforced my own personal beliefs.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. When I started Shapeways, complex software needed to be built and when I first reached out to developers, a lot of them laughed and told me it was impossible. If your product is getting good reviews and people are willing to pay for it, you’ve got something.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. Currently, Independent.ie

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

This “gap” first came to fruition in 2009 when retailers decided that the best way to attract mobile users was to create a mobile application. Although this gap is decreasing due to the rise of mobile website optimization , conversion rates for these websites are still poor when compared to their desktop counterparts. Image Source.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic. The rest is history.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. So in 2009, as the economy came to a screeching halt, I took the leap.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. We were going to pay people, who are clearly closer to the top 1% than anything else, money, and it’s $44k each, to implement software. Bill Gurley : Great. It’s crazy.

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