Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. This is especially important across functional lines.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Our biggest differentiator has really been our design, from the ease of use to our playful tone.”. Branding isn’t only a design-oriented initiative. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

It may have meant that my creativity would have left with the restricted travel, but it has actually made me be more creative with how I operate my company. The user-friendliness and design of the website are key features to focus on. Agility is the watchword for 2021. Thanks to Damon Routzhan, Concrete Candles ! #9-

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It was already lore that the founders had pivoted from simply building an entire computer that fit on a single-circuit board with a newfangled Intel microprocessor to selling complete desktop workstations with an operating system and office applications (the precursor to the PC) to other computer companies. Hacking a Corporate Culture.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 17, 2022

Thanks to Megan Benedict, Friend of a Friend PR ! #9- In my business, this has meant offering a wide variety of exhibit sizes, layouts, styles, and custom designs to facilitate different business objectives. 9- Watching dreams getting fulfilled. Photo Credit: Jennifer Conroyd. It is similar to manifesting a one-of-a-kind house.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Companies want the coverage, but they don’t actually want to reveal anything useful about their operations. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

It may have meant that my creativity would have left with the restricted travel, but it has actually made me be more creative with how I operate my company. The user-friendliness and design of the website are key features to focus on. Agility is the watchword for 2021. Thanks to Damon Routzhan, Concrete Candles ! #9-

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

As an e-commerce entrepreneur, this quote resonates with me greatly and it is has guided many aspects of my business operations, especially the user experience design of my website. Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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). Take Tesla. You should also establish the scope of your brand tracking measures. .

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Like Apple, your strategy will require significant marketing investment in content, traditional media, and PR. It’s a strategy used by software providers like SAP and IBM i2 , whose systems are vital to companies’ operations. . Slow skimming. This works to promote exclusivity while still selling the benefits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Desperately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. We found each other. Eric Ries : Well that. Or the UK government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

(a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Trendy image, DVD and a successful pre-cursor.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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