ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

many are run purely on intuition and conjecture, which can be poisonous. The trouble people get in is when they try to find the silver bullet that will double your total number of customers in a year. But if you look at only moving each of these only 30%, you’re going to more than double the business.” (via It’s really hard.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We would run in and put test versions of dummy boxes on the shelf and just watch what happened – we wanted to see if people picked up the box, and when they did what they looked at and what they read. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Crossing the Rubicon – The Applied Electronics Lab Setting up a separate Applied Electronics Lab for military funded programs doubled the size of the electronics program at Stanford. With the Applied Electronics Lab Stanford was becoming something akin to a federal or corporate lab run under university contract.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Its object-orientation support is "much improved" - which is another way of saying its been horrendous for a long time. Plus, with memory-resident code, its pretty easy to forget which version of the code is actually running at any given time. The stuff in memory is invisible - you cant double check it. Bad OOP support.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on localhost:3000. Any page on the Internet which serves Javascript can, currently, root your Macbook if it is running an out-of-date Rails on it. Do you disagree? Aren’t you exaggerating?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. Long term, shake-outs are good for the industry, Paglia notes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

ESL sent me overseas to a secret site run by one of the company’s “customers.” Now half a world away on the customer site, my very small role was to keep our equipment running and train the “customer.&# As complex as it was, our subsystem was only maybe one-twentieth of what was contained in that entire site.

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