Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name. Second, focus on digital marketing channels that align with your target audience—SEO, social media, and email marketing have been invaluable for us. A website is a digital storefront for customers to order and place products in their online shopping cart.

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eCommerce Omaha Entrepreneur SEO 136

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. If you’re a startup it’s easy to get confused on this step.

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Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Lessons Learned.

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Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

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

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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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

Private Equity 328

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 328

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This flexibility helps them to free up unnecessary costs associated with running their IT structure and channel it to other purposes. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud.

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Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

Once your business model (market, customers, features, channels, pricing, Get/Keep/Grow strategy, etc.) The processes used to organize and implement the search for the business model are Customer Development and Agile Development. It is a tool that better matches the real-world search for the business model. Organization.

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Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 324

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 267

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. On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2

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SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In general, when a startup is young with relatively simple operations, Finance is an easier function to outsource as the work requires less company-specific knowledge, agility, and database access (you’re closing the books monthly, not monitoring marketing campaigns or product experiments weekly). When to make your first analytics hire.

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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This makes sense in a company where your customers, channel and competition are known. But for startups, business plans fail to match the chaotic reality they encounter in the real world. And that instead of firing executives to match a plan, it was the plan itself that needed to rapidly iterate. This years winner were: 1.

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Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 266

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. After a few weeks as company, the 3 of us opened a Slack channel to consistently share name ideas that would pop into our heads, it was quantity over quality at this point. Coming up with our name was both fun and extremely frustrating all at the same time.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Software Review 101

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. Deliver minimum viable products that match DOD/IC customer needs in an extremely short time.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The goal of the class is to expose students to the basics of the Lean Methodology – Business Model Design , Customer Development and Agile Engineering. In an existing market, going through customer discovery (talking to customers, buyers, distribution channel, etc.)

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Lean Customer Development Business Model Agile 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. He should make sure that there aren’t other parts of the business model (revenue model, pricing, partners, channel, etc.)

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 320

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Customer Development was a process to quickly search for a profitable business model when customer needs (features, pricing, channel, etc.) Eric observed that an Agile Development model was the right match for engineering to build a product when the initial feature set was unknown. are unknown. Topological Homeomorphism.

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Customer Development Lean Developer Customer 235

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. What Drives Innovation?

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

A business plan has a set of assumptions (who’s the customer, what’s the price, what’s the channel, what are the product features that matter, etc.) The web site and/or product presentation slides start changing and Marketing and Sales try different customers, different channels, new pricing, etc. that make up a business model.

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Burn Rate Management Business Model Customer Development 250

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

But the classic approach of researching new keywords then writing articles for those that match your domain strength doesn’t work for all sites. It’s more than just a distribution channel. User intent + Jobs-to-be-done = a match made in heaven. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind.

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SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

At 1 million strong, the millennials in Singapore are a sizeable demographic with spending power to match, their online behaviour and appetite for digital experiences with brands are reshaping the very fabric of customer service delivery. hours per day, on their mobile phones.

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Customer Singapore Advisory Board Asia 100

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. It was an example, where we can build something maybe quickly for you that helps collect volunteers and helps you match them. 28:32) Finding ways to help and also care for yourself.

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New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

She was initially drawn to Wirth’s passion for the cause of maternal health, but she also came to see that the two of them were well-matched for a business partnership because their skill sets were so complementary. Social media is our primary marketing channel,” Cote says. Even a small investment can make a huge difference.”.

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Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You’ll need to maximize your presence on multiple channels with educational content and influencer marketing to ramp up the excitement. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Slow skimming.

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Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. The ability to connect large disparate sets of data and pull actionable value is central to website optimization as well as other marketing channels. Image Source.

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Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The company created a YouTube channel where the team shares videos answering customer questions from Facebook and Twitter, which helps put faces to the brand and excites customers with a shout out or an insightful answer to their question. Transcripts offer data to improve customer service. Increase in conversions and average order values.

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Vertical Social Media Programming Matching 151

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Customer Development suggests that founders have continual and timely customer, channel and market information. At the same time, they can gauge how well industry data and the actual sales match the company’s revenue and market-share expectations. Customer information dissemination is a cornerstone of Lean and agile companies.

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Metrics Customer Customer Development Lean 241

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. match the brand ethos, congruent with the website. updated footer.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

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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Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Does your messaging at each touchpoint match customer intent? Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Do consumers know who you are?

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

The previous model was that each week they would set you up in a professional networking context with someone else in the industry, and they would get your profile and what your goals are and match you with somebody really interesting. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt.

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Red Stag Fulfillment is a pretty agile company, and right now we're still at the point where despite a lot of growth, we don't have room to bring anyone on full time. It’s a lot easier to do a trial run with a contractor and take stock after a month or two to decide if they’re the right match for the company.

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Hiring Technical Review Early Stage Agile 56

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Maybe location-specific "channels"? Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. I'm really just trying to figure out how to explain what this thing does. July 31, 2009 11:16 AM BillSeitz said. Does this scale in any way?

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San Francisco Lean Startup Continuous Deployment 68

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. You might also get asked this question: Wait, don't we have Facebook, Twitter and Google+ channels? Because the consideration stage matches your marketing, which in turn matches the metric.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. And they have channeled all this into whatever activity they could find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship.

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Founder Silicon Valley RSS China 307

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Another frequent online experimentation strategy is to use matched-market tests to figure out diminishing return curves for the online-offline media-mix in our marketing plans. You, like us, probably measure change in Unaided Awareness, Consideration, Intent across individual digital channels. Bottom line. Segment, or die.

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Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101