Advertising, Customer Development, IPO and Technology

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. IPOs dried up. Then one day it was over.

Lean

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer

This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Combined with the technology trends above, it also enables rapid deployment strategies like just-in-time scalability. Customer development. What is customer development?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Seeing whats possible.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search.

Product

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator

Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Flaws in design as a different story, and shouldnt be treated the same way; a user can live with software that doesnt have one of the features advertised, but he cant live with software where a feature sometimes does one thing, and sometimes another. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

Software Review

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Most engineers naturally think about repurposing the technology platform, and this is a common pattern. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Of their early customers, about 1/3 of them turned out to be high school or middle school teachers. What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Those rates gave us a map that told us a lot about our customers; insights that proved stable even when the company grew orders of magnitude bigger. SEM is a simple idea.

SEM

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Youre not an interviewer per-se but you still need to make a very careful selection of who you go into business with both from a personality perspective and a technology perspective. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Any advice?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Agile Java

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

For example, should we invest a week of engineering time into making our website more failure-proof (which were pretty sure will pay off right away) or into experimenting with a new technology (that might pay off in months, years, or never)? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

What I found particularly interesting, looking back, is that the McCain campaign had superior technology, voter lists, and numbers on their side. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development?

Campaign

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile

StartUpRoar

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Trending Sources

This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Marching through quicksand

Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Resources

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

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