Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A buyer persona is a fictional or imaginary character that represents a business’s potential customers, based on what you know about customer’s behaviors, and customer acquisition. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system with various templates used for building a website.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. Alfred, a man long on courage, remained steadfast in his position and completed the acquisition.

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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?)

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Consolidation will persist to prove itself as companies like Amazon and eBay continue to make acquisitions (Zappos, Quidsi, Woot, BuyVIP, etc.).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). Of course there are exceptions?—?last A service for the insatiably curious.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0 Kent Quirk was director of engineering at Playdom and director of engineering at Linden Labs. And they discovered that: device makers were spending $500-$800 in Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) to acquire a customer. A Five-sided Market.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Efficiently Being Inefficient.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Snapchat made waves earlier this year when the company reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion acquisition attempt from Facebook and $4 billion from Google. Evolution and innovation continue in 2013, unabated and unafraid.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. What does it take to get from that demo into your engineering group, to be delivered as a product into your existing sales channel?

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. A lot of times as founders–especially technical founders, engineers, product people–believe if we build this awesome feature that solves your pain point, you should come and use it.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Although the rendering engines and computer vision are rather mature, we’re still years away in terms of packaging all of this in a sleek glasses-like form factor. It’s been widely reported that Apple has had hundreds of engineers working on AR and VR for some time. But we’re a long way away from this dream.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). Check it out here.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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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? It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Here are some example metrics that are important at this overall level: CAC – total cost to acquire a customer (see previous blog post Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition to understand why this is so important.) This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.)

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

He made it very clear that the pace of acquisitions has increased, rising from 9 the prior year to 22 this past year. For those who care, the sweet spot for Microsoft is to buy a more engineering and technology focused company versus a sales and marketing oriented one.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes. The drilldowns are Keyword, Source (engine) and Mobile Device Branding. You could do Source and then Keyword if you want, but I felt in this case the other way works much better. Thank you.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Knowledge Repo – open sourced. edfryed talks at #cxllive pic.twitter.com/dQd4N5anQd. Frequent users : key to your growth.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Over the last 15 years, prior to founding CodeLathe, Madhan has worked on diverse systems and technology, including building highly scalable MMORPG game server technology, high-speed real-time video acquisition systems, digital video engagement solutions, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. Cons: Measurement of acquisition channels appears to be a mute point with Clicktale. Stats Engine – Optimizely led the way when they launched stats engine earlier this year.

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