ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Archive. Your Tempo and Resources.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

When we found a subset of the tests on which we did worse than our competition, we … hmm, somehow that never happened. We listed the editors, writers, what they had previously had written, deadlines, what the competitive products were, how our benchmarks stacked up, what “upgrades” our boards needed from engineering to win, etc.

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

This entry was posted in Commentary , Data Science DC , Methods , Rant and tagged data science , e-commerce , machine learning , recommendation engines. They have an army of music analysts listening to tracks and manually assigning tags. Archives Select Month September 2013 (12). August 2012 (2). Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If it is demonstrably better as you claim your marketing department needs to communicate that competitive advantage and your sales curve should look linear as you take share from the existing incumbents. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. 2 Vijaya Kadiyala on 07.25.09 at 7:51 am [.] at 12:56 am Fantastic article. A good read.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

In this approach, you take your competitive advantage (your market-specific knowledge) and invest heavily in a few companies you know well. alone and would rather take time to find companies that he can actively manage and leverage his competitive advantage with. s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index. social proof? startupcto

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Competitive Analysis Unless you are at the wrong show your competitors will be there as well. Someone from your company has to be designated the official competitive intelligence officer for this show. One of them is a loser. It isn’t going to be your booth. Booth Staffing You can’t do it alone. What didn’t?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyway, the presentation went well so I wanted to share a Cliffs Note version here (the actual presentation was 2+ hours including Q&A). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. Basically our advice is to outsource everything. Engineering/QA.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Then find the early adopter/internal evangelist inside that company who wants to gain a competitive advantage. Reply Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: Steve, I’ve read and re-read that section in Chapter 2 re: market types and I still don’t fully comprehend. They usually fit the checklist above.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Steve and I worked to find a metaphor that would help explain the power of lean startups, and why they have a serious competitive advantage, especially in these challenging economic times. tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Want to learn more about me?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&# 2 Arnie on 11.30.08

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Yes, but there are certain keywords that have to remain in the H1 tag, so there’s the realistic prospect of losing traffic if they change it out for a clearer, benefit driven headline. Same is the case with your split testing URLs. Use 301 instead. Finally, page speed.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2 2 Elwin on 08.11.09 9 How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob | Information Technology on 08.11.09 9 How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob | Information Technology on 08.11.09 at 9:05 am [.]

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas?

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Step #2 — Understanding your target’s decision criteria — a significant part of any recruiting process is attracting desired talent, which you cannot do effectively without understanding what your targets consider important. tags: hiring. Not logged in. [

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

Point #2: Two Months Into Development Around the two month mark you will hit a dip. at 2:02 pm [.] 2 Sean on 05.21.10 at 2:30 pm Hi Rob, Nice post. at 2:32 pm 1. at 2:56 pm Awesome, thanks Rob. How to Avoid the Three Startup Danger Points | Software by Rob Definitely see point 2 as biggest risk personally.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

To date we’re bootstrapping to get to an arbitrary step 2 to get to proof of concept and so we can get the people we want to take us seriously, both angels/VCs and CTOs. Tags: startupcto. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

can use for themselves or 2 on sell. the amount of high page rank quality sites in EVO 2 is breathtaking by comparison to BF etc. Though I can tell you I have always used the content supplied by EVO 2 each and every time to get the rankings mate, I don’t think you need to go down this path. Protect your asset.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Simpler websites shouldn’t take more than 2-3 months.You can always iterate and extrapolate later.Wet your feet asap.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

They just need to persuade customers why their new product was better than the competition – and they did it brilliantly. Handspring’s customers understood what a Personal Digital Assistant was. Handspring did not have to educate them about the market. Is there some defining factor that easily distinguishes the difference?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

2 Aiesha on 10.07.09 at 2:21 pm [.] the original post here: Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse … By admin | category: mind software | tags: camcorders, creator, interview-the-creator, [.] For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. at 12:10 pm Nice interview.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.]

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? For scenario 2, because it’s an existing product, the competition is likely to be far too strong (at first) to get those rankings. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t be thinking about SEO when you prepare for launch, however.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? I suggest you to do the same #2 Matt Youell on 12.04.08 My rails-based blog app was killed constantly by their scripts.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

hmmm Posted by: sean | September 8, 2009 2:18 PM This quote is key: "One of the telling differences between an application design that is handled by a designer and one that is handled more by a development team is spacing. 1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] Posted by: Eliot Sykes | September 8, 2009 4:19 PM How extremely reassuring and useful!

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In fact one wonders whether one reason myspace lost competitiveness with other web properties is because it had access to fewer cool technologies. James Governor Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink @SteveL i did think of that. For a software stack that really isn’t in the NoSQL game I would say look at Microsoft.NET.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup strategy customer-development) [.]

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] 4:32 pm on September 3, 2009 Reply Tags: business (100) Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. § [.].

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

We had more than 50 PPC experts work with us as we built out the market and tried to understand the dynamics that matters when you asked individuals to do something they knew but in a collaborative and competitive way for the first time. All good ideas drive competition sooner or later. And you have to embrace this.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

They will put up with an unfinished system that barely works to get a competitive advantage outside their company (or sometimes a political one inside their company.) If your startup’s vision is compelling enough, these early customers want to buy into the dream of what could be, and they want to get in early.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? Try using customer references to avoid the need for a trial If your customers are going to compare you to the competition as part of their process, consider doing this for them, with a section of your site that has a comparison matrix with appropriate check marks.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Formed in the name of "preventing lock-in" mainly as a competitive action by IBM and Microsoft in the midst of unseemly political knife-play with Sun, they went on to create massively complex layered specifications for conducting transactions across the Internet. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Ironically, the model is a good fit when launching a new product into an existing , well-defined market where the basis of competition is understood, and its customers are known. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The irony is that few startups fit these criteria.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Posted on April 2, 2009 by steveblank A comment left on the previous post made me realize that it was time to discuss a subject I was going to save for latter – ethics. Reply brantcooper , on April 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm Said: Thanks for that. Or at least that’s how I understand it.

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