Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Agile is a Sham- [link]. Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link]. What Every Start-up Should Know about PR – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Spotify Is Raising At A Stunning $3.5

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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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. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Mobile is more important than ever now that COVID is the new reality, and you have to lean into it. While we’ll still focus on customer service, online content and creating new products, we’ll be setting time aside for additional digital PR, searching for opportunities for guest posts, and building backlinks.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly.

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