Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Data is changing the way that businesses operate, and most of the start-ups that I see achieving success are highly reliant on customer analytics. While data science is still a nascent field, knowing basic calculus and statistics and learning how they are applied to modeling and forecasting changed the way I think about customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2017

But the entrepreneurs that have it, including Elon Musk and Richard Branson, seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere. Rather than cave when things get tough, optimistic entrepreneurs go analytic, looking for pivots that keep their goals in sight. Able to just “get it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere. Rather than cave when things get tough, optimistic entrepreneurs go analytic, looking for pivots that keep their goals in sight. Be revered for an amazing positive attitude. Able to just “get it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere. Rather than cave when things get tough, optimistic entrepreneurs go analytic, looking for pivots that keep their goals in sight. Be revered for an amazing positive attitude. Able to just “get it.”

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

. ——— Yuri, one of my ex students started a big-data analytics company last year. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. And that’s where the problem was. A Pivot a Week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2011

But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere. Rather than cave when things get tough, optimistic entrepreneurs go analytic, looking for pivots that keep their goals in sight. Be revered for an amazing positive attitude. Able to just “get it.”

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool. If your web analytics tool requires you to call the vendor to set up advanced segments, or re-tag your site to get segments, then switch.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And once you got the data you asked for, it still took weeks or months for a marketer to tease out any customer insight and trends from the data. An Epiphany.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate the retail-focused Web analytics that we eventually became well known for?—?was In other words, as I write in my Lucky7 post on capital efficiency , you may be able to make your businesses mostly customer funded. was failing.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Check out my list of featured essays Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps View Comments Answer this question honestly… When’s the last time you spoke to your target customer? It’s a good idea to balance out the data aspects, particularly if you are not your target customer. Like really talked to them?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. Coremetrics invented the enterprise-scale Web beacon (or data tags) data collection for Web analytics. it isn’t easy.

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. 8 are in R&D, 1 product, 1 customer support, 1 biz dev, 1 marketing and 1 administrative. More customers means more requests: The more customers we get the more requests for features, customization and so on.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. Customer Relationship Management. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? Analytics blog â?? Codeacademy.

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