Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. Act Like a Startup.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Regulation and Intellectual Property. Metrics That Matter (Business Model Metrics). By design we didn’t give them too much Customer Development theory. Agility and resiliency are not tested inside the building. Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Customer Discovery. Building Startup Teams.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. But there isn't actually a top down roadmap of how to do it with real milestones and metrics and uh, around it. (07:01): They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. As Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive said in a recent interview in the Daily Telegraph : “The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process.

Bankruptcy 121

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. You can see the design of the program here. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

Software Review 110

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