ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Typically, it’s a game of continuous small wins that add up over time… Morgan Brown , Inman News : “It’s a feedback loop. Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. Speed is, largely, the name of the game. Archive and distribute the learnings.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you already own Monopoly and don’t want to buy yet another version of the game, give. If you already own Monopoly and don’t want to buy yet another version of the game, give PayDay a try. For me, toys like the Rubik’s Cube were disheartening, but puzzles and games that required creative thinking and reasoning? Bring it on.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] New strategic direction in companies with loyal customers have different consequences then when you had no customers Acquiring new customers are a lot more expensive that converting existing ones. Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » O MVP: a ferramenta de experimentação e aprendizado da Startup - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on January 12, 2010 at 7:08 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.] Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet. Games Lists. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Grammys YouTube Google+. Trending Stories. Jobs Lists.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? carry on reading.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. Games Lists.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. For more on social discovery, see Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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MARCH 25, 2009

and 3x kept coming up time and again in attacker/defender ratios when I gamed out our market entry strategies. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] I had found that the numbers 1.7x What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Now when my students begin their team projects, I list 13 vertical markets on the whiteboard. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Just as I thought we were going to talk about the product, he then mentioned the previous nights football game. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] Best regards, Dan Reply links for 2009-11-13 « Blarney Fellow , on November 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm Said: [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

I’ve watched as they realize there’s no Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy; the world has injustice, hypocrisy and inequality; capitalism and politics don’t work like the textbooks and money moves the system; you can’t opt out of dying, and without regulation people will try to “game&# whatever system you put in place.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

For a startup Speed and Tempo need to be an integral part of your corporate DNA. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VIDEO GAMES. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geeky Gathering Spots: Check out this new category in GeekWires Startup Resource Center , spotlighting some of the best places in the Seattle region for your team to huddle over coffee, drinks or games. Geek of the Week Archive.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. And this is true outside of games.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this drive to create something new, crazy, innovative and globally game changing. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Companies 8 comment(s) | 3388 view(s) Hello World!

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which recently defeated one of the world’s top Go players, Lee Sedol, four games to one. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. I just wish I don’t have to fight another company with such an unstoppable team led by Steve for my life.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Get out of the building and meet people.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the game. He said “if a game is built around a business model, that’s a recipe for failure.”. Community was about things we didn’t have as much familiarity with, i.e., social media, game mechanics, community building, etc. Too much PR, too early. We like data.

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