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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Now, we’re wrapping up a data lake that stores data across all customer touchpoints on most channels, from acquisition to re-engagement. Here are six factors to rate by importance: Data security and governance activities should occur throughout the roadmap. This led to us remodel their entire tracking. Dependencies.

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Software Review API Analytics 107

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

AFWERX, who works out of Capital Factory’s Center for Defense Innovation, serves as a channel through which entrepreneurs can access the necessary resources to make their ideas a reality within the U.S. Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict.

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SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

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

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. 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. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. ” And no, email is not enough; you’ll need many communication and collaboration channels, including messaging apps and video-conferencing platforms.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Boards Are Getting Smaller The number of volunteers who sit on governance boards has been shrinking. In the past, it was common for boards to have 30 or 40 members, with organizations asking their major donors and funders to send representatives to serve as part of the governance team. Smaller boards may be more agile.”

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Agile Government Equity Leadership 52

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability. Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict.

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Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. I spent my first seventeen years in a city where there were just three major TV channels, three major newspapers, and no Internet. — The next wave was Radio.

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North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 280

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Here’s why. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Channel is changed to Deployment. Change Channel to Deployment.

Business Model 120

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Even with the limitations of tools, government regulations, and the astonishing fragmentation of everything (attention, devices, consumption sources, identities and more). A decade ago, data people delivered a lot less bad news because so little could be measured with any degree of confidence. In 2019, we can measure the crap out of so much.

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Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. I love governments!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

#g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. Federal government should do nothing. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

With big businesses, profits are generally earned by extracting revenue from a very wide catchment, but get channeled back through a narrow funnel of stakeholders, leading to a focused accumulation and concentration of wealth. What do I mean by this? Take “The Warehouse” for instance. rather than risk taking.

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New Zealand Small Business Global Dividend 75

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

They’re usually put in place to help govern the overall approach to customer-centricity and experimentation, setting working practices across teams (e.g., agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks). Some may follow “channel and delivery” units (e.g., In other cases, it’s a permanent fixture and a source of innovation.

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Customer Conversion Dividend Software Review 74

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Implement Agile ! Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play. More than 10,000 conversions as well as multi-channel distribution: Yes! Hacks that are: Applied to another marketing channel. Self-learning videos.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 8, 2020

Here in New Zealand we are two weeks into alert Level Four, whereby schools and non-essential businesses have closed their premises – a nationwide lockdown measure by the Government to curb the spread of the virus. For a small business guide to the government’s economic stimulus package, check out this infographic.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

After someone signs up for your site, you ask them to share it with their friends through various social media channels and/or email. The then Ahmadians (Non-Muslim) Government of Pakistan joined hands with USA just in revenge of their being declared as Non-Muslims by the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

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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. [I They are, see #6 below.

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Analytics Web Agile Campaign 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

These new marketing channels mean CMOs command a growing share of their company’s investment in technology, and CIOs are none too happy about that. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. But still, it’s only part of the story. Hers is a rapidly changing world.

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Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 174

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We work with different types of customers, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments. Preferred channels – How does this person get their information and what’s the best way to reach them with marketing messaging? Those customer groups differ from each other.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Which is why large clusters exist in the cloud, or the largest companies/ government agencies.) Carpe Diem.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 422

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. 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. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. The founders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In countries where the news media is often controlled by the government, real news doesn’t always make it out, and a “top-down” control of news means that citizens in repressive regimes may not be able to share their stories. Clay Shirky: How social media can make history. Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users.

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Social Media Media Egypt Social Network 193

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. The music and movie business has been consistently wrong in its claims that new platforms and channels would be the end of its businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention. People arrive on the forums because they've tried going through the "proper channels" to no avail. It has channels to speak to but they continue to be closed and frankly rather rude. Just like in IMVU.

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