Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market ? Was the company attempting to be a low cost provider by introducing cheaper products to an existing market? Was the company attempting to be a low cost provider by introducing cheaper products to an existing market? No, not really.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A vibrant business has many marketing channels, on and offline. Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. But offline marketing can and do still yield results. 6 Build a company archive. Offline marketing needn’t be complicated.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Shipping confirmations, marketing emails, social media promotions and even reminders from your bank to pay your credit card bill all just clutter your inbox, making it harder to spot the more important emails from your boss or client. More Than One. Here’s a fact: No one can stop you from creating more than one email. So, why not try it?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. pointed me to the vast masses of paper archives sitting at law firms, waiting to be digitized, and archived in meaningful ways along with efficient retrieval capabilities. Tags: StartUp 101. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. Photo by thesaint.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. The Social Layer. Cloud Computing. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web. Community Management. Follow RWW. Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb. Best of RWW. Featured: ReadWriteCloud | RWW Solution Series. 1 Entertainment Network on YouTube.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. For me this was one of the joys of entrepreneurship – constant learning and new insights.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. The two other players in the add-on graphics business, Radius and RasterOps, had a combined 90% market share. The assets were a series of products already developed and on the market or in the development pipeline.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When that happened I just updated the one file, rather than dig through my blog archives to find all the articles that contained that link, which would be a nightmare job. The link is a lot more compelling from a marketing point of view. You can follow Yaro on Twitter and see him in action at Yaro.TV.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

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

APRIL 9, 2009

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Startups are the adventure of a lifetime. But make sure it fits who you are. Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. on June 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The product development model treats all startups like they are in an Existing Market – an established market with known customers. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter? Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The backdrop to my story is that I attended the Duct Tape Marketing Annual Summit last year. approached me to write a book with three other Duct Tape Marketing Consultants.

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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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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.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Based on my experience as the co-founder of StartupDigest , I believe that the startup investing industry is quickly being organized more like the public investing market, and what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach. s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index.

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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. In the same market, the product with better marketing wins. Every time.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Without an “exit&# , you will never exercise your options.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Amy and I were in City Market grocery shopping the other day and at some point I had to go outside and scream. At first I almost just archived it on general principle. It felt good enough that I was able to go back in the store and finish buying greek yogurt and vegetables. And then I listened to it. And it was hilarious.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

How and Why to Conduct a Meaningful Content Audit written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Liz O’Neil Dennison – Enjoy! Common content categories to tag include: Author. But it doesn’t have to.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Google’s Penguin update has permanently changed the Organic Search Marketing landscape, and in a good way. Using “guest posting” techniques has its place in the marketing mix, of course, as does simply using more PR orientated outreach to gain your brand, your start-up or your products coverage. Hyper targeting appropriately.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s a robust online market place, with more than a million active sellers and over a billion dollars in sales in 2014. Who is my target market ?” Make sure your Etsy tags and keywords are those which people can easily find you, both on Etsy and when searching for a particular item on Google. Research your product.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Collective Intellect’s customers use this analysis to inform and measure the effectiveness of their PR and marketing strategy. Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. On any idea, keep track of what is near term, what resources are needed, what is the cost, and what does the related market look like. (I

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

7 Ways to Get More Podcast Subscribers written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. Advanced Marketing Institute – [link]. I’ve been podcasting now for over ten years and I still crave new subscribers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. You’ll be able to tell who made the key decision to enter a new market, and which people actually took care of the key action items to make it happen. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. Ultimately you want to see if you can find customers and a market for the product as specified – as early as possible. Innovation – Business Model?

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