Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

2- Cut down customer acquisition costs. As a result, we were able to lower the cost of our customer acquisition by ranking on top search results on our search keywords which is extremely important since we are in the event entertainment industry that took a huge hit. Agility is the watchword for 2021. Photo Credit: Mark Lizada.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur Mobile Valuation Global 118

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

2- Cut down customer acquisition costs. As a result, we were able to lower the cost of our customer acquisition by ranking on top search results on our search keywords which is extremely important since we are in the event entertainment industry that took a huge hit. Agility is the watchword for 2021. Photo Credit: Mark Lizada.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. Don’t shrug off poor sales or user growth, a dysfunctional team, a wave of bad PR, or other challenges confronting the business.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

Here are a few I have seen work: PR Opportunity – for the LargeCo. A strong bluff if you have no backup, but a reasonable move if you have a team and want to move onto the next company/prospect/project as a small agile team. Typically a startup wants a POC with a LargeCo. and they move at a glacial pace.

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