Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. The Technology-to-Weapons-Cycle. Our second lecture was a discussion of how new technology turns into new weapons and new doctrine. If you can’t see the slides click here. The text below refers to the slides.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? In the first five months of 2022, more than $120 billion have been invested in building out metaverse technology and infrastructure, according to McKinsey. Unity’s recent $4.4 Also, their $1.6 It starts with building Otherside, the BAYC virtual world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

Technology 300

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. The Technology-to-Weapons-Cycle. Our second lecture was a discussion of how new technology turns into new weapons and new doctrine. If you can’t see the slides click here. The text below refers to the slides.

Technology 122

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 122

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Technology in search of a market. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

We just held our fourteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Design = rules. Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). It’s not about technology, but customer centricity + agility, data drivenness. If you don’t care about words, you are a decorator, not a designer. Acquisition. Development = rules.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations. She is also a member of Nike’s Board of Directors and Trustee president of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.)

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Although these new technologies are showing promise in the construction industry, much of today’s onsite tools, methods and practices date back to the previous century.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

by Nikhita Elizabeth Cyriac, Head of Talent Acquisition, ThoughtWorks. To help maintain the passion for technology-focused careers and keep Singapore strong in the sector, here are five tips for fresh graduates looking to build a tech career. Build your public profiles. The first step is always the hardest. Keep learning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Up until the dawn of the 21 st century, they defined military technology superiority. Our defense and intelligence community owned and/or could buy and deploy the most advanced technology in the world. Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

In our previous post we posited that Scalable Startups are designed to become large companies. The Scalable Startup stage called for opportunistic and agile leadership. Keeping this larger organization agile and responsive is a hallmark of mission-oriented management. Scalable Startups at Adolescence.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

However, it’s difficult to measure the impact of a new tool or technology if you don’t have a clear goal. They suggest asking yourself the following questions: As well as understanding those involved at the decision-making level, before you onboard or roll out new tools, you need to design your workflow.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation.

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Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

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. What’s the customer acquisition cost? Who influences a sale? Who recommends a sale? Who is the decision maker?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. Great post!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Brian Cugelman: “Consumer Psychology, Dopamine, and Conversion Design”. Try out different tactics, tools, offers, and designs. Invites went up 50%; 35% lift in referral acquisition. Learning over knowledge: Knowledge is finite; design every experiment in a way that you can derive learnings, even from losses.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

New-style marketing group Crowdify, which has been designed to deliver the marketing needs of 21 st century brands and fast-growth companies, recently launched in the UK with an impressive roster of clients, including Tottenham Hotspur, NHS, ViaVan, HiyaCar, Modball and PureGym.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs, and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Those with the highest customer acquisition costs can be scaled back. . Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You have lots of sign ups, you’ve smashed your acquisition targets and the first slide of your pitch deck looks great! One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment. Technology pivot. These people hold the knowledge you need on what is happening and why.

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Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Marty Hayes, Online Business Manager for UK Consumers at Dell Technologies, uses data to show people why customer centricity is important and to get people to start questioning opinions: I once worked for an online womenswear retailer, where our target market was fast-fashion-craving teenage girls and young women. So how can data help you?

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Juggling tight budgets demands hard choices, particularly in selecting technologies that will maximize the available financial resources. When resources are scarce, leveraging technology like contractor management software is more a necessity than a luxury. In the entrepreneurial landscape, small business owners fuel the economy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Its the same with acquisitions. but rest assured they would be. Expo SF (May.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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