Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Google released Chromebook in October 2011, offering a faster and easier way to access the Internet. More focus on customer demographics and implementing the findings into updates would probably have made a huge difference in sales. He has led teams in strategy, planning, business and corporate development, finance and operations.

Product 222

Product Technical Review Software Review Green 222

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer. It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Google’s Operating System Android.

San Diego 100

San Diego Fort Worth Los Angeles Indianapolis 100

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Both sales and marketing are important to understand if you want a promotion in your organization. Try these simple tests: Are you able to make a great sales call? Netflix suffered an immediate decline in customers when they raised their prices in 2011. Understand the Operations. Understand Your Market.

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Balance Sheet Technical Review Leadership Operations 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. He didn’t feel my pressures on sales, marketing and ops.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. I knew everything about our operating system, hardware and applications – and I was going to prove it.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). Featured merchants (may not have tipped): 56.8K (Q1 2011), 66.3K (2010), 2.7K (2009).

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North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

4: Zipline (2011). Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: 5: Scopely (2011). Techstars Ventures 2009 invested in the angel debt round in 2011. 6: Outreach (2011).

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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Entrepreneurs starting out are typically stronger in sales and marketing than they are in other areas—I think it’s really important for them to get a grasp on financials and operations as well.”. Today, Check Maid operates in most major U.S.

Detroit 156

Detroit Technical Review Cofounder North America 156

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.) trade secret). In practice, this leads many U.S.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Gnip has been adding customers at rate that any investor would be proud of, is executing flawlessly on the product and operations side as it scales up, and is posting month over month growth numbers that put it in the “they are killing it&# category. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

CTO Hire 131

CTO Hire Cofounder Architecture Product Development 131

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

An IBM study in 2011, “ From Social Media to Social CRM ”, discovered significant gaps between what businesses think consumers care about and what consumers say they want from their social media interactions with companies. What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.

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Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing. He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So you may be able to play a game or log in and do all kinds of operations on your website, and therefore the use case or the case that Google Analytics, the old Google Analytics was built upon was really a website focused and Google had a lot of struggles in order to incorporate any kind of other business cases on this tool. (02:35):

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Analytics Software Review Channel Europe 78

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

As far back as the 2011 census , the Muslim community in the UK was at 1,012,823. This can make it quite tricky for entrepreneurs to find providers of Islamic business finance that operates within the confines of Sharia no-interest laws. Think of the sale of fish not yet caught, or plants that have not yet been grown.

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Finance Stock Sales Acquisition 162

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

steve blank in finland sept 2011 View more documents from steve blank. Finnish private investors don't yet have enough time-in-grade to have developed good pattern recognition skills, and most lack operating backgrounds. 9-to-5 Venture Capital. Even a more serious challenge is the lack of global business competence.

Finland 158

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. When Murthy had left in 2011 from his chairman position, Infosys stood head and shoulders above the rest as the bellwether Indian IT firm (it had since then been nudged out from that mantle by Tata Consultancy Services). “Yes,

India 165

India Technical Review Management Cloud 165

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

Customer 66

Customer Video Social Media Software Review 66

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. Example one: Sustainable net operating income with some growth in a stable market.    If plenty of cash flow regardless of plan for sale/retention of business: Senior bank debt based on cash flow coverage and new assets. 

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Survey Monkey acquired them in 2011. Lecture 14: How To Operate. Lecture 19: Part One: Sales and Marketing. To make sales targets you need to reach out to more than 100 companies, because it’s a numbers game. Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo, and Partner, Y Combinator. The average startup raises about $25 million.

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Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

Finman began investing bitcoin in 2011 at the age of 2012, where he purchased Bitcoin with a $1,000 USD gift from his grandmother and a tip from his brother. Marco Streng had his first exposure to cryptocurrencies in 2011, where the young entrepreneur leveraged his laptop’s CPU to mine Bitcoin. Marco Streng. million USD in 2015.

Africa 145

Africa Forecast .Net Technology 145

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. Only 30 days after it’s launch on June 9th 2011, Fab had 300,000 registered members & over 10,000 members making a purchase, resulting in 1.3 Conclusion.

Customer Development 126

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. Building billion-dollar businesses requires 7-10 years which means operating through at least one full economic cycle, if not two. You feel it, too.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

2011 Winners: Coffee Joulies 1. The next week we had done tens of thousands of dollars in sales through that template, and not a peep from our customers that it 'looked bad.' We found accounting and fulfillment resources that could integrate closely into our business while operating outside our day-to-day infrastructure.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Framework Lean Stock 167

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. Bob Baughman, previously with Polycom and Marvell, as Vice President of Business Development and Sales. The industry needs a new clock, not just another tick or tock.

Naming 59

Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. As an engineer at Boeing, I had no idea how the company I worked for really operated. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background?

Founder 120

Founder Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? All rights reserved.

Small Business 59

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sales & Marketing. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. Branding From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps. just $1 per issue!

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. These new entrants disrupted their food categories by offering high quality proprietary recipes, outsourcing their manufacturing, and using their cash and resources on sales and marketing to build distribution and a differentiated brand.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

Penney corporation in November 2011, he received a warm welcome. Unfortunately, a series of bad judgments followed, including firing the company’s long-time ad agency, laying off 10% of its corporate staff and thousands of middle managers, and ridding the stores of sales and discounts.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Experienced Security People (SF) iSEC Partners Application Security Consultant (SF) iSEC Partners Senior Unity Game Programmer App Minis LLC Systems/Operations Engineer (relo assistance available) Advertising.com Software Engineer in Test Advertising.com. Gift Guide.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter. I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

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IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Office and Operations. SALES & MARKETING. The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Copyright © 2011 Mansueto Ventures LLC. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Email address: Home. Newsletters.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40