Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). Lessons Learned.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. which we call problem curation. “Is

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

To be fair to Microsoft they’ve done some laudable things in the past decade like creating a respectable (still distant #2) search company in Bing, being both dominant and innovative in console gaming (Kinnect, Xbox Live, etc), and acquiring some interesting companies (Skype, Yammer). browsers). Want names?

Cloud 113

Cloud Azure Phoenix Non-Compete 113