Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures. Reply Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Why The iPad Will Be A Success, In the Long Term , on February 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm Said: [.] What is it that your business is bringing to the market?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Do you have a “culture” of customer experience that is commonly known in our organization? « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » [link] Online Ad Spend Strong In The UK; Google Launches Ad Innovations; YPN Shuttered; Bizo Adds Web Metrics Partner [.]

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This tool adds a lot of context to bug discussions, because nonprogrammers can reference the exact Hoptoad URL containing all of the information a programmer needs to fix a bug (including backtraces). Tags: startupcto. To monitor exceptions, we use the excellent Hoptoad app. Conditionally using memcached in Rails development.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I also wrote about how company culture and incentives need to be different. It wasn’t country culture. One of the least acknowledged strengths of technology startup culture is the ability for a small team to come together and brainstorm ideas, design and implementation. Tags: startupcto. It was collaboration.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. An upgraded new building is a premature transition away from a startup culture. It’s a tipping point to a big company culture. But there were three more insidious problems.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If we’ve missed a great post-mortem others would benefit from reading, please leave it in the comments, and we’ll add it. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. Our Deadly Cultural Mistakes: – didn’t focus on learning & failing fast until it was too late.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. A company’s DNA is set by the founders, and its culture is an extension of the founders’ personalities.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

If your market is missing, just add it as we go through this discussion. A vertical market has a culture. And while in some cultures it is ok to “ban&# words, that’s not really what we do in the US. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, It has a vocabulary. It has its own meanings. Order Here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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. Wanted to add one additional note from the perspective of someone who was intimately involved in developing this system. If it can work for cars, it can work for you.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Do you know of any similar studies showing correlation between sales success and founder success? The three dropouts above were each, in their own way, some pretty slick sales guys.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Language and culture is not a major barrier. The impacting power of English in mainstream culture through the export of American movies, music and TV, and the advancement of US-based computer and Internet technologies have created a global culture. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

By the way, companies that have a single individual as the VP of Sales and Marketing have decided that marketing doesn’t add any other value then tactical sales support, and the only way to get is to put it under the VP of Sales. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

” Speaking on stage at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Lawee explained the next steps: be a good cultural fit, be a conscientious worker, and don’t think of it as an exit. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. ITA Software. Self serving comment.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Would also add a suggestion about pronounceable names, too. When I worked in telecom there was a culture of naming products with names and dashes. Tags advertising. Hiring Marketers for Cultural Fit. Culture fit is a big deal when you are hiring, particularly at a startup. Hiring Marketers for Cultural Fit.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus. It’s whether you actually have facts that you are going to add to discussion. Reply steveblank , on October 8, 2009 at 1:42 pm Said: Matt, The issue isn’t how you “frame it.&#

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AUGUST 16, 2012

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