Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. to get hard-earned information. But we could be wrong.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Searching for Customer Validation. Owners were unable to curate these daily alerts on a regular basis. Sean and team have developed a one-page template for businesses that allows users to get the information they want quickly and intuitively. Breadcrumbs positioned itself to bars and restaurants as location-aware messaging.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator. Related Posts: Content As an Essential Strategy Installing a Selling System 3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You 5 Ways to Get Rockin Reviews Content is a verb, content is a strategy?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Usually, the information is high quality. One day could be pharma and the next, commercial real estate.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As a start, fill in as much information as you can in your profile. You’ll understand their weak points and even win those customers to your side by suggesting your better solution. On a higher-level, it’s a good way to understand your niche and target customers. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Searching for Customer Validation. Owners were unable to curate these daily alerts on a regular basis. Sean and team have developed a one-page template for businesses that allows users to get the information they want quickly and intuitively. Breadcrumbs positioned itself to bars and restaurants as location-aware messaging.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. It’s a cruel game, and it doesn’t necessarily end up with the best matches. No founder has time to train you.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As marketers, we create and curate engaging content, broadcast it to all the right channels and measure how it performs. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. But marketers today still struggle with tapping into the potential that exists in content marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you talk to investors, partners, customers and most potential new team members one of the first thing all of them are going to do is get a sense for who you are and what you've done. Content marketing is creating relevant and valuable information for prospects and customers as part of a brand's overall marketing mix.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

A few companies implemented advice in there to positive effect, and one actually let me write about it, so here we go: Aligning Price With Customer Value. This is very complicated and does not align pricing with customer success. Pricing Scaling Linearly When Customer Value Scales Exponentially Is A Poor Decision.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

With this new (alarming) information, you can revisit targets, value per subscriber, or changes needed for lead nurturing and sales. This style, known as the inverted pyramid structure , puts the most important information first and gives supporting details further in the story. Image source ). Always start with the big picture.

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2019

This article is part of our Restaurant Business Startup Guide —a curated list of articles to help you plan, start, and grow your restaurant business! The best sales forecast method will vary according to how you manage information, how much past data you have access to, and what special factors drive your business.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

Last week I had the privilege of inviting John to join me for a free webinar providing information from John’s new book, Duct Tape Selling. that 57% of the typical purchase decision is made before a customer even talks to a supplier. And here’s why: this is a study that I quote in the book from C.E.B. How do I close a lead?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2014

You have to plug into the rich vein of useful information coming from your customers, prospects, competitors, journalists and other industry influencers before any of this makes much sense. The next element I wanted to address was the ability to curate important industry information as a way to inform clients and internal stakeholders.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. CompStak: create transparency in commercial real estate by gathering information that is hard to find, difficult to compile, or that’s currently unavailable. Cubie: a free messenger for creative users to chat and draw. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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Early Growth Financial Services

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I scan to see what information is available. If I am hiring a fix-it person, I love a link to Yelp, where I can check out their track record with other customers. But you can influence it by making sure that you are adding great content and information to the web. How can you curate a place to tell your story?

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

I took a basic set of numbers from the last two years from public filings AND publicly available information about the growing number of online users. Here are some examples: Yummly is an interesting recipe aggregator if you are looking for recipes. Spring is a shopping app that customizes what you see when you shop.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. When we look at Twitter we’re following friends or people from whom we want to know more information.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Our sponsors treated our students like serious problem solvers who could contribute unique technical skills and unfettered customer access. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). Team Exodus: Coordinating information to better serve refugees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Your strategy informs every marketing decision. It must be considered when you decide what products you will offer, how you will serve your customers, what your packaging looks like, what your followup entails and how you generate leads. Curate a Scoop.it photo credit: Giandomenico Ricci via photopin cc.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

how I more-than-doubled customer lifetime value on Appointment Reminder by implementing a product tour. asking for email addresses would damage customer confidence. Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. Why would you care about that?

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

The pace of technology has altered the way we view digital and connect with our customers. Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. The Man on the Boon store is a curated store where the founder only stocks stuff he would buy or own.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

I have been telling people to subscribe to blogs using RSS readers to stay informed, learn about specific industries, get inspiration for blog posts and monitor customer and competitor content for years and won’t stop any time soon. Think Facebook). Heck, Google even has one of these called Google Currents.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2013

The use of high quality, education based content has become an essential ingredient in creating awareness, building trust, converting leads, serving customers and generating referrals. July – Customer Experience. Curate a Scoop.it Waking up every morning and deciding what you are going to write on your blog does not scale.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Our sponsors treated our students like serious problem solvers who could contribute unique technical skills and unfettered customer access. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). Team Exodus: Coordinating information to better serve refugees.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 30, 2011

People put out a lot of noise and seemingly irrelevant information about themselves and others. When I say ‘noise,’ I mean information. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. There can be a lot of ‘noise’ in silence.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2011

They must also be adept at constructing ways to put the pieces of information together in a package that opens doors and starts relationship building. 2) Insight over information A great deal of the salesperson’s role at one time was to deliver information.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I use it to curate collections of things related to marketing topics. Bookmarking is a pretty basic skill these days as you must be able to find and aggregate large amounts of information of risk drowning in the virtual sea of stuff related to your chosen field. Custom filtering. Basic bookmarking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s very much a partnership where we give you the opportunity to not only curate what words we’re looking for, but then enhance the content with that magical human touch, that only you and I, and the rest of the humans have, John. This allows you to easily turn that information into valuable marketing messages.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

Everyone wants the perfect tool that bounces rates in real time while computing multi-channel attributable impact of an email sent to grandma via Facebook based on competitive intelligence gleaned from TV watching behavior of customers with lifetime value greater than $358 and FICO scores of 700 or higher. Feel the pain of your customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. Their responses are both fascinating and informative. We custom design Facebook open graph and Twitter card images for our high profile articles to help them appear better in social.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

But if you’re not answering every single question that your customers and prospects have and making that content available, someone else will. I’m trying to solve the problems of our customers. ” And how do we interact with sales to make sure that that’s actually getting in front of the customers.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. And, notice there is just the perfect amount of information about every tree. When we “trip up” our audiences like this, it gives them a pause and forces them to look at all the other information more carefully. I choose 22 weeks….

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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