Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

As a result the young company is now saddled with an expensive, scaled-up sales organization frustrated trying to execute a losing sales strategy and a marketing organization desperately trying to create demand without a true understanding of customers’ needs. Yellow Pages for Researchers , on January 31, 2010 at 8:06 pm Said: [.]

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

In the past 18 months at NextView, we’ve made 13 new investments (out of the 36 we’ve made since the inception of the firm back in 2010). Finally, productivity mobile calendaring app Sunrise has been adding features which leverage demand-side economies of scale. Recent Investment Overview.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There isn’t a sales problem, the problem is that marketing just did not understand its customers and how to create demand or position the product. Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.) We were constantly creating metrics [.] there were words of encouragement on the package.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

4Geeks Academy students gain real-world software development skills that traditional education left behind but are required to meet the demands of our digital economy. Back in 2010, Alejandro started a software shop together with 3 friends, but most importantly the number “4” is intended to work also as a “for”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

As your business thrives, the providers who support you with banking, marketing and other services should change as your demands change. Growth places new demands on business, and with this comes an opportunity to reevaluate core functions and operations. Re-set the vendor and partner paradigm.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Now I have.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In order to resolve this issue, we are creating a centralized resource that provides on-demand live streaming, chat and development of content by creating a digital platform allowing communities to engage and ensure a proper DE&I space, therefore transforming and pushing a 20 th century system into the current scenario of the 21 st century.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2023

#12- To help companies make money Photo Credit: Mark Lindquist Digital Air Strike is an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company that I started from my kitchen table in 2010 despite the ongoing recession. I will never hold back when there’s an opportunity to improve human lives.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Many companies have cyclical business demands that require them to increase capacity at certain times while reducing it at others. Instead of endless cycles of hiring, training, layoffs, and re-hiring companies can benefit through a flexible workforce that can be expanded or contracted as demand requires. Form 1099-misc: U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

In 2010, the VC investment in Southeast Asia startups was just $100 million. The pandemic has significantly increased the demand for access to digital services. Now the pandemic has settled, startups in the region should meet the demands of millions of new customers. However, this amount could reach $9.6 billion in 2018.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. Companies are often challenged in their ability to track the metrics and meet the associated demands of all of these audiences. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

I once had a potential LP back in 2010 (when fund-raising as a VC was harder for me) tell me that he thought he was a better fit to look at our next fund rather than this one. It’s hard and awkward to do this because silence demands a response. But often if they don’t say ‘no’ you’ve just got yourself a commitment to re-engage.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

Carmen Medina retired in 2010 after a 32-year career at CIA. Due to extremely high audience demand, this presentation was scheduled for an additional two Encore Sessions during the event. If you missed any of these SXSW sessions on how to shake up the status quo for personal and professional profit?—?learn The Mediocrity Trap.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. The fourth quarter of 2010 was the company’s eighth consecutive growth quarter, highlighted by a record number of new customers.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

If we did anything egregiously wrong at Get Satisfaction in the 2010-1012 time period it was to under-invest in the product with the assumption that the existing product was good enough. Ultimately you need to achieve best in class but if you try to achieve that in the first iteration you will be hopelessly late.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Demand creation for subsequent iPods can be about the features not about the new idea of iTunes+sync+iPod. Apple’s marketing at first was about educating you about the ecosystem of doing something new. Fast forward to today. Today the iPod market is an Existing Market. Users understand the ecosystem. The iPhone had the same story.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. Life was good.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

3 rd decade (2010): New generation of CMS targeting a wider market. This demand led to the creation of a number of differently designed CMS aiming at mommy bloggers, artists and anyone who wanted to have a Web presence, which today is almost every living person. More businesses needed a website and they needed it quickly.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

We ruled out jumping insects like grasshoppers (not friendly enough) and mammals that already represented other on-demand businesses (rabbits for example). If patients as a whole started to demand transparency and ethical pricing, then we’d truly be able to improve the healthcare industry. No one honeybee can make honey.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Toptal , founded in 2010, aims to relieve the difficulties of hiring freelancers. There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2014

However eventually working with such demanding clients starts to feel like a job, and due to the nature of the service being dependent on the one artist, there was little room for growth. Together they created WE Mastermind (Women Entrepreneurs Mastermind) program, which they lead successful form 2010 to 2013.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing demand for skilled professionals, the rise of remote work, and the growing popularity of the gig economy. The country's annual inflation rate surged from 10.46% in 2010 to a staggering 114% in 2023. In 2022, it was valued at a staggering USD 4.4

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Each of these three concepts demands extensive consideration in the specific context of the project and the organization as a whole. Cost The most talented technical candidates do demand higher hourly rates, but as indicated already, their expertise reduces risk and the number of required project hours.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.  If the market demand ramps quickly enough there isn't enough time to consider much else. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.  If the market demand ramps quickly enough there isn't enough time to consider much else.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2021

How to Create an On-Demand Super App like Gojek? Gojek is an Indonesia-based Super app that offers different types of on-demand services. Initially, in the year 2010, Gojek was formulated as a call center company for bike taxi and courier delivery services. What if there is a single app that provides multiple online services?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Generation Z, which are those born between 1996 and 2010, strive to solve problems instantly and are maturing in a stranger-trusting community that utilizes daily on-demand services for food delivery like Favor, transportation solutions like Uber, and instant current event influence with news sent directly to their smart phones.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

In 2010 I didn’t understand the concept of driving traffic to your business through proven marketing tactics. Business was going great and we decided to recruit to get ahead of the supply and demand curve. Photo Credit: Hera Zee. To any good entrepreneur, a business fail is just a hard lesson. 6-Scaling up too quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. This has led to exponential growth. Bring your questions.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 26, 2011

In that spirit, SEC filings are a great source of entrepreneurial case studies, and recently I’ve been reading about Demand Media. Demand Media has a mix of businesses, including a domain name registrar. Can Demand Media make a $20 article fee back in some reasonable period of time?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) My original intention was to have a completely new lineup this year, but the popular demand for a few of our top speakers was overwhelming. The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year.

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