Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Since joining the program, he has seen an increase in ad sales and also received new investment capital. Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We Current customers have helped to improve our analytics. Each year, U.S.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They discussed how technology combinations present an unprecedented opportunity to protect health data, provide improved care, and streamline the path to innovative services for wellness. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. Analytics are supercritical for your app.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even PhD analytics eggheads. This has resulted in dramatic increases in sales. Traditional approaches to marketing and sales will only screw up customer advocacy. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Seed your launch campaign with advance sales. Definitions of failure also vary.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The Marketer: Adept with communication; should understand incentives, SEO, content creation, analytics. Keep in mind the difference between marketing and sales: to present the product and encourage sales vs. the selling of the product. Talk to peers at other firms who have recently hired selected positions (CMO, CTO, CFO).

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

Here's a simple tip: track hiring analytics and assign them to someone. Hiring is a funnel with inputs and outputs--just like a normal sales process, except you're selling your company and the opportunity to work for it. You have trackable metrics for sales, site conversions, traffic, etc., The reason? so why not for hiring?

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Technology. Affordable Technology. Business Analytics & Intelligence. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Affordable Technology (9).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. You can read in Jeremy Liew’s own words why he invested in the deal.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. The ability to drive user demand for your product through data analytics and testing to improve its conversion rate. Step 5: Marketing and sales. You don’t need to be a marketing MBA to learn how to generate sales leads.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

You may be a better communicator, have a higher IQ, be more of a natural leader, be more persuasive, be more analytical, etc. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. from a young age. There is of course much nurture and culture weaved in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. That all-hands lasted five minutes.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Today, as CTO and co-founder of Artillery, I’m split between infinite freedom and infinite responsibility.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

An analytical mindset that might be somewhat jaded from past ventures is going to take a hard look at your idea, and their reaction is likely to be sobering. As engineers we naturally have an analytical mindset, and like to break things down into black and white, absolutes and positives so we can make quick judgements. Thoughts on.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

The Marketing department is “in charge” of eCommerce, but eCommerce sales results aren’t doing anything. Iztok said, “We ensured the CEO that conversion optimization would increase sales. We first provided some quick wins, and emphasized analytics to the point of addiction.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Rich Data Discovery Enhances Society The BlazingDB team is passionate about its ability to conduct and promote large scale analytics. Advanced analytic companies such as OneModel , have full deployments and are experiencing scalability, performance leaps and cost reductions. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

Traditional analytics would say the personal computer was responsible for the prom dress purchase, but in reality both the computer and smartphone were responsible. Editor’s note: KISSmetrics , MixPanel or Heap Analytics are favorites here. If you havent already done so, test flash sales.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. A few resources you may want to check out include: How to Forecast Your Sales.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. The core idea had support from Larry Page, but the idea immediately encountered some pretty strong resistance from both the ad sales team, and the engineering team.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. The company recently completed its $3.5M

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

If you’re online, it’s a little bit easier to track that through pay per click campaigns and things like that, because there’s a lot of analytics behind that so that you can track what that costs. Are you landing a big sale? How much is going to sales? What does that look like? Are you doing an acquisition?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Previously, Steve was CTO at Deluxe Entertainment , the provider of production, post-production and distribution services to the movie and TV industry; and EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Rovi , where he led the media company’s transition from physical technologies to e-commerce, connected home and subscription services.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Predictive analytics, in other words, wasn’t a panacea. This post details those changes and shows how several businesses—and not just behemoths—have cultivated the predictive analytics landscape. How many neglected data points do you have in Google Analytics, Google Ads, MailChimp, Marchex, Stripe, and similar services?).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Motioning to our VP of Sales, he ordered: “Go with him and get him in front of customers, and both of you don’t come back until you can tell us something we don’t know.” We know Ben W was the CTO. Sale Guys, Account Reps, Project Manager – they all need to be able to deal with this without even blinking.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you really believe that you can educate a client to speak in logical, analytical terms like this then you are either lucky to have met clients sent from heaven or are daydreaming. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come. That way youll not try to make the site too complicated.

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