Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Is there some defining factor that easily distinguishes the difference? Are you bigger, faster, cheaper?

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias conducted the interview. The interview is part of a series Bias is doing with cloud computing innovators. In the end, Bias presents a solid testimony from Cockcroft about the disruptions we see in the market. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Tags: startupcto.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

All of the above may have some impact, but my theory on the root cause is that there is a selection bias that draws people who are good/passionate about sales into… sales. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged academic , entrepreneurship , Harvard , management , sales , Stanford , study.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

However, this survivorship bias is problematic. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. It’s often tough to find these given the survivorship bias, i.e. we like to talk about wins/not losses.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

I don’t necessarily agree with this bias, but from an entrepreneur’s perspective, it is what it is. more from the original source: When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) | startup … Posted in Shop | Tags: and-minuses, are-hiring, business, considered-the-pluses, context, [.]

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). How to Archive Past Tests? Smart organizations archive their test results and plan their approach to testing systematically. What to Test to Improve Our Chances of Winning? How Long to A/B Test?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I love business plan competitions (and with my valley-centric bias, I think Berkeley and Stanford have two of the best.) Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. You’ll learn a lot.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

.  For example, I included TheFunded which is not a single author blog but rather a feed from a members-only network of entrepreneurs and I included Marc Andreesson who has great stuff on his blog but he just hasn't written anything new in a while. My list has many biases.  Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Rocket Science Games | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product Burnout » 7 Responses Steve , on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 am Said: Steve, This is an excellent post. Make sure they are. Personally I got what I deserved.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

If you can’t manage chaos and uncertainty, if you can’t bias yourself for action and if you wait around for someone else to tell you what to do, then your investors and competitors will make your decisions for you and you will run out of money and your company will die. Let me know what you think. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc. Most flexibility of any tool out there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our bias as technologists is to over-focus on the product part of the problem, and five whys tends to counteract that tendency. Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. This is completely typical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Hal OBrien , on April 8, 2009 at 5:08 pm Said: Steve, one of the problems in your sample is what’s called survivorship bias. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. In most cases, at that point you just *are.*

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

This entry was posted in Articles , legibility , reading , Research , sans serif , serif , typography and tagged linkedin. Although you never come out say what your own preference was/is, I agree with blackbear that the page has a tinge of pro sans bias. Hi there, Please could you identify the specific areas of bias.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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