Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

It’s going to serve as your central hub of operations – and the centerpiece of all your promotional channels. . Marketing/advertising channels. What are the channels and mechanisms that will help you achieve this growth? . Adaptability/Agility . PR and reputation management can be huge in getting your brand established.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Second, focus on digital marketing channels that align with your target audience—SEO, social media, and email marketing have been invaluable for us. Thanks to Ben Pu, Ship Sage ! #18-

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. customer relationships to create demand.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. Examples here , here and here. An example application is Dall-E. Generative Design of Physical Products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. The campaign serves not only as a mean to raise capital, but also as a strong market validation and as an excellent sales channel. finalized before the crowdfunding campaign.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Omnichannel: Diversity and Inclusion Every successful organization uses multiple channels to communicate with potential customers and advertise its products. Search engine optimization, paid search, social media channels, online stores, and even pop-up spots are examples of practical omnichannel usage.

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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. An SEO business, then, is one that offers this practice as a service.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It involves collecting and measuring data from interactions with your website, ecommerce store, social media channels, and mobile apps to make decisions based on audience or user behavior. For example, which channels drive the most traffic to your product page? The number of visitors from different places on the web (e.g.,

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Imagine someone pouring crazy glue into your car engine, that’s how a bad team can affect an organization. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM. R&D or Engineering teams. Candidate Teams for Momentum.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How to they use the new distribution channels competitors have adopted? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners?

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack , entrepreneurs first map their assumptions (their business model) and then test these hypotheses with customers outside in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

It opens up a plethora of channels such as social media , email marketing campaigns, etc that can be utilized to make an ever-lasting impression and increase revenue. Digital marketing involves the usage of online as well as offline electronic gadgets to promote your products.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Key Messaging: define the core messages and unique value proposition that you’ll communicate across every asset and channel. Create Assets: align your assets and channels to the stage of the buyer’s journey. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Launch: set the campaign live.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. In our age of disruption, you must be agile and courageous. Hint: That should be all companies.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Further, he notes, opportunities for innovation are virtually unlimited as digital channels grow. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Serve as a channel of knowledge.

Retention 106

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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. This post is part one.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, – the business model – is what turns a product into a business. Diagrams of key parts of the Canvas –customer flow, channel, get/keep/grow (before and after). Pivot stories.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

recommendation engines, chatbots, automated suggestions for collaboration). Then they noticed that they’d been cannibalizing other channels—people converting as referrals were leads already acquired from other channels. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. Recruited a lead engineer and a designer. You can’t see it.)

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. of Search Traffic: This measures the percentage of traffic you receive from search engines, in context of all other traffic sources. This one is more subtle.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are also unforeseen disasters, such as the 2008 financial crisis, that businesses need to be agile enough to overcome. It dedicates approximately 10% of its annual turnover to innovation , and invests it in product, company processes, marketing options and sales channels.

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