ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), Make sure you have a good understanding of your value proposition, cost structure, revenue streams, customer segments, etc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was the company attempting to be a low cost provider by introducing cheaper products to an existing market? Therefore, no, we weren’t really equipped to be the low cost provider. Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. No, not really.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. 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!) Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing Term Sheets For Free [.] [link] OTCBB Shell The Definition Of OTCBB Shell « Crystal Shade [.]

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Once you’re up and running, there are ongoing aspects to operating your business. Luckily, it does not cost much for shop owners to post products again so the mistake was not huge.” 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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. It will cost you your job.” Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] That kind of accountable.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] End of theory.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. This approach is a the heart of breaking down the "time/quality/cost pick two" paradox , because these small investments cause the team to go faster over time.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Items that paint a big picture include revenue by major product area, cost of goods, and operating expenses by category. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Tags: scorecard venture value Akira Hirai business valuation. Part of your Venture Value Scorecard should be devoted to summarizing your income statement.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. The biggest source of cost/time advantage that all lean companies have is avoiding building features that customers dont want. Agile software development. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. High Cost and barrier for entry means that a lot of people dismiss it without really understanding the true benefits of the tool. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” the manager followed us still yelling.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use the Best Hosting Provider Your Money Can Buy As a startup you are looking for ways to keep the costs down. This is a mistake that will cost you a lot of time, which is more valuable than the money you will spend. You define what operating system you need, what web server you want to run, what database to use, etc.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But his experiments, which hed been conducting for at least 12 years, showed him clearly that cutting the workday from ten hours to eight hours — and the workweek from six days to five days — increased total worker output and reduced production cost. At that point, the costs strongly begin to outweigh the advantages.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The extra rent they were paying on palatial digs would have bought six months worth of runway… Reply Cy Quick , on May 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm Said: The same mechanism operates with nation-states and empires. Are his costs in control? The same principles operate in living as in business. Don’t let it happen to you.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Tags: startup programming language startupcto. XML sitemap.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. We’re about to ship next week.” to look at: when the plan (or process!)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Do you think that the long-term maintainability and reliability costs that result from using PHP are outweighed by how much time and money it saves you in the beginning?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. I’ve been operating the business full time for 10 months now and only recently felt the need to move out of my basement. Tags: startupcto. What changed for Moon River Software?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

As we ran our tests, our engineering team found ways to improve our graphic boards performance for these applications and they made revisions to the boards firmware (its operating instructions.) As a private company you can decide that winning at all costs is your culture. Think through if you want to win at any cost. (I

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

To scale the service, Netflix has moved its API and other operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the past several months. Operations staying in Netflix data centers include "most internal IT that scales with employee count, legacy stuff, DVD shipping systems. Costs are based on usage. Scaling is elastic with AWS.

Web 56

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. With that information in hand, Engineering estimates delivery dates and development costs.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 27, 2010

For my business, tax compliance (the cost of setting up a new tax structure), outsourcing to contractors and affiliate commissions are the largest “expenses&# I incur. That’s what is so good about online business – the low cost structure. Pick an industry with significant profit margins and high demand. Yaro Starak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

It doesn’t cost anything to participate (other than the 30-60 minutes it takes to complete the survey) and the benefit is that you get the full results once they are published. altgate » Blog Archive » 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Assessment Opens [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

What it is: Google Apps is a free (standard edition) or low-cost (premier edition) online service that provides powerful email, calendar, collaboration, documents, spreadsheets, and intranet solutions for small businesses. Among other things, businesses can add hours of operation, photos, videos, coupons, product offerings and more.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

But a series of Zen-like moments helped me move to a different level that changed how I operated. I was asked to explain why a marketing program that cost $150,000 bucks literally generated nothing in revenue for the company. They hit each other with baseball bats until one of them dropped.) Ownership and Teamwork not turf.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

None of these departments operated with any particular sense of malice – just with the certainty that the company revolved around them. If a company behaves this way you avoid optimizing a single component at the cost of the entire system. The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank (tags: marketing business) [.] Well said.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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