crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors – [link]. Many eyes lets you create data visualizations – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. We’re all in this together. Very cool – U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. Titles are not your job When I pressed my staff to explain why marketing did trade shows, or wrote press releases or penned data sheets, the best I could get was “why that’s our job.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Since our competitors were also small privately held companies, none of their data was readily available. Since I was heading a marketing department, not acting as an individual contributor, I needed to teach all of marketing the importance of customer data. First, I presented what I had learned.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Many of the categories are wide open. and tagged with. Many of the categories are wide open. POPULAR TAGS. open source. data mining. data visualization. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. Subscribe.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Demonstrable experience of each of the following: data warehousing, enterprise applications, networking & hosting, telecommunications, recruitment, outsourcing, IT governance, project management and software engineering. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Tags: startup cto job description startupcto.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

All the marketing materials, data sheets, advertising, press releases, trade shows, etc. I am starting to execute an eerily similar approach in the Big Data analytics market. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Marketing knew who the Spigot customers were; we had all the registration cards and all the data. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. This company successfully received a patent for delivering video data over a computer bus, and at some point went after Supermac, Radius, and Rasterops.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

That’s tough to argue against — particularly if you’re opening pitch is “I want you to do all that hard technical stuff and you can have half of what you make.” Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. fail Email required 4 sample data&scripts. open source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop. Agile software development. Customer development.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And, given it’s the holiday season, I decided to go about presenting the data in a slightly more entertaining manner. It allows them to deposit real coins and bills and displays the data on a screen. The only drawback is the price tag. What is it? Here’s a toy I wish I’d had as a kid.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

prices, clients, positioning, and so on are valuable data for a new service idea. and the market remains largely open to a set of actors, there is room for everybody, and it is even an advantage for a new idea not to be sold by only one company on the market because the market can trust it with more confidence. Steve Blank [.]

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore. Tags: startupcto. All rights reserved.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As with any business, whether you’re starting a franchise or opening a cat cafe , doing your research is an essential first step you should never skip. 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. Etsy-Related Resources.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Some of my staff had believed we were gathering extraneous customer data. “Hey, These were two of the questions I had asked on purpose when we first did the initial customer surveys. Hey, we can make these surveys shorter. We don’t need to know all this stuff.” Yes you do. You need to know the day-in-the-life of the customer.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Lastly, once you have this framework in place, make sure to benchmark your salary, bonus and equity for each position in your company using CompStudy data which allows you to narrowly focus on companies that meet your profile and the executive position in question. Bookmark the permalink.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

Consider a hypothetical: Your data shows that 2% of your emails are bouncing, but an additional 10% are making it to the Email Service Provider (ESP) server then being pushed into spam. If 0% of your Gmail (or another ESP) domain email addresses are opening your emails, you’ve got a problem. The difference is important. Image source ).

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Step #6 — Posting jobs for active candidates — because active candidates are proactively seeking out job openings, it doesn’t take a lot to make your job postings visible. tags: hiring. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

MapReduce – one of the core technologies Google and Yahoo use for fast response times across large data sets is Java-based. Anyway the point of this post is really just to riff on the data from simplyhired , as per the graph above. Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java. Not bad for a dead technology.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us. Goodbye, WS-I. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

This is worthy of an open and honest discussion with sales up front. They are in charge of coordinating collection of competitive data, and preparing a summary report which contains facts as well as analysis. Competitive Analysis Unless you are at the wrong show your competitors will be there as well. Welcome them loudly and openly.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

MapReduce – one of the core technologies Google and Yahoo use for fast response times across large data sets is Java-based. Anyway the point of this post is really just to riff on the data from simplyhired , as per the graph above. Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java. Not bad for a dead technology.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? Suddenly that ride across campus to save $.50

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] You process your customer data differently depending on market type.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Your (duplicated) data volumes would be ridiculous if you didnt do a reasonable amount of normalization. More articles & blogs » POPULAR TAGS javascript google api apis node.js startupcto More articles & blogs » POPULAR TAGS javascript google api apis node.js startupcto

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And in the 1960s ESL’s customers asked the company to analyze and interpret telemetry data even though this was a traditional function of the “customer.&# In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. My small part as a foot solider in this adventure is in the next post.

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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) [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

tags: startup productivity) [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » The Role of Corner Cases in BPM , on May 5, 2009 at 3:40 pm Said: [.] Reply Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough « Steve Blank , on December 17, 2009 at 6:01 am Said: [.]

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. Sometimes, the customer will want a trial with their own data. The data you have on your site is very interesting. LIAD new to this blog.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? What do you think? shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. This isn’t hard tested data, but in general my copy and headlines perform best with the presentation of an overarching Negative hook, then add in other Positive stories/visualizations. Tagged with: convert [.] Also liked Corey’s formula.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. No amount of learning how to get a VC meeting or improving your VC demo skills will fix the lack of concrete customer data. If not, you don’t have enough data for a VC presentation.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Salesforce handles non-customer inbound (and response) pretty well, ZenDesk does a good job of capturing customer/user inbound and response pretty well (although trying to get a frigging average open and closed ticket time from ZenDesk is like pleading with a 3 year old to sit still – come on guys its Ticket Management metric #1 – please fix this).

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics. For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. Tags: startupcto.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In particular, he outlines why a public cloud infrastructure has certain advantages compared to building out a data center. Operations staying in Netflix data centers include "most internal IT that scales with employee count, legacy stuff, DVD shipping systems. He gives advice for those that wish to follow in Netflixs path.

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