Acquisition Agile Demand Distribution 
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Lessons Learned.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)
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The Startup Magazine
MAY 30, 2019
A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
But cyber and space alone demand global integration. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility. And as you start to distribute your forces, they are almost by definition, they begin to be cut off. We have to build into the systems for acquisition a method by which we can be far more agile.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions. The New Exits.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 10, 2014
We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) Expo SF (May.
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