Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Create a solid, scalable shipping and returns policy. Make sure that they find your shipping policy, return policy, product descriptions, images and about page up to snuff. 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

MARCH 20, 2009

Reply steveblank , on March 23, 2009 at 12:11 am Said: Alvin, you can buy the book online at [link] They ship to the Philippines. 7 shipping is not too bad. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions. Thanks for the link. $7

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A rational fear, as the sum of all of our other graphics boards shipped was about 7,500/month.) I guess there was no need for Customer Validation prior to shipping the board! ; ) Believe it or not, I was silly enough to buy IBM’s Actionmedia card and D/Vision’s Cineworks in order to do non-linear video editing in 92?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] In the mean time a less expensive version that ships worldwide is at [link] Daily Links #47 | CloudKnow , on March 28, 2009 at 4:05 pm Said: [.] What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

“Why don’t you come to Korea with us when we ship the system overseas.&# 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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. In contrast, sales and marketing activities before first customer ship are adhoc, fuzzy, and don’t have measurable, concrete objectives. No wonder the half-life of a startup VP of Sales is about nine months post first customer ship.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

One got added to the latter category Tuesday: design firm Cuban Council, which will be shipping off a portion of its team to help improve the look of Google+.). In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. So what does it take to impress Lawee? ITA Software. Trending Videos.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You’ll ship your product and you’ll find out if you were wrong when you run out of money Or you can quickly get out of the building and test whether your hypothesis were correct and turn them into facts. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.]

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Either the game ships and sells — or it doesnt. In these clearest of possible conditions the ship made a planned turn out of the shipping channel and didnt turn back in time. Crunch does not make the product ship sooner — it makes the product ready later. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

So we would always wait to the last minute to provide our boards for testing and then “forget” to ship the cables to connect the board to a computer monitor. The magazines’ rules were that no company could be in their labs when they reviewed the boards.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

As the (very junior) product marketing manager I got a call from our local salesman that someone at Apple wanted more technical information than just the spec sheets about our new (not yet shipping) chip. I vividly remember the sales guy saying, “It’s only some kid in field service.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » A raiz da alta taxa de fracassos das Startups: o modelo tradicional de desenvolvimento - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 1, 2009 at 10:16 am Said: [.] This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. . Facebook Inc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

We’re about to ship next week.” Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Ignoring the Red Flags While I had lots of people willing to talk to me, we never really pushed hard to see if any customers were willing to buy and pay for the product before it shipped. If I had followed that up with a “If our personal supercomputer delivers as promised, would you write me a check now, before it ships?”

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The venture investors start measuring progress by number of orders in place by first customer ship. Product Launch and First Customer Ship Product launch and first customer ship is the final step in this model, and the goal the company has been driving for. Marketing is at its peak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. 100% of those tests ran, via a continuous integration cluster, after every checkin.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

E.g., we take a big spec, cut the 80% that, for some core group of customers, is nice rather than necessary, and ship the 20% ASAP. Shipping 8 months early, with only half a product! 1) “Ship it; we’ll fix it in the field.&# Do the right thing. It pays off in the end. That’s cheating!

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. Maybe it's time to get on board a new ship or start your own biz! looking forward to reading the archives Evgeniy Mironov I would also consider another variable, CMC - cost to maintain a customer. LIAD new to this blog.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

That, unfortunately, is a big “if,&# so make sure that you’re at least asking the question about whether you should be monetizing a feature before you ship it. Tags: startupcto. I’m pretty sure that just making your customers happier leads to more revenue if you have any sort of monetization model in place.

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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. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

The Customer Development process puts you in continuous contact with customers to test your concept, fail, and iterate way before you actually ship the product. You may have a set of hypothesis about them but you really don’t know. It allows you to systematically replace each business-critical hypothesis with facts.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Operations staying in Netflix data centers include "most internal IT that scales with employee count, legacy stuff, DVD shipping systems. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Tags: startupcto. account sign-up and billing systems," Cockcroft said. Intel VMware vSphere vCloud Xeon Virtualization Cloud Computing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

In essence we were proposing that we ship the same board in 9 different colored boxes and charge from $699 to $3,999 depending on the color of the box and the speed of the board. If all you’re doing is shipping and launching the product as spec’d by Engineering, you’re not adding value.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Of course HP did ship new products and innovate, but their center of innovation was sustaining innovation , around the core of their existing business. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. carry on reading.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

If your problem is a high shopping-cart abandonment rate in the checkout process, Google Analytics will not be able to tell you that your visitors are finding it difficult to find shipping information from other pages, so they will go to the checkout process just to see that information. Use rel=”canonical”. Showcase of A/B tests.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

In any case, here’s what I said (and I paraphrase): If you are captain of a tall ship, your managerial skills include your ability to ensure the sails are right, the crew is well selected, trained and orderly, executing the routine of the day, the ability to bail water in rough seas and the like. I wish I knew the answer to this.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Whether you’re shipping desktop tools or a web site, you’ll end up with custom graphics, icons, etc. #27 Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business | Software by Rob (tags: memori.us These vary wildly but a really good logo can be had for around $500 and offshore graphics people are fairly cheap ($25-35/hr range).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg says don’t take venture capital money [.] link] Three Ships Media » MORE Sage Start-Up Advice from Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. If there comes a point where you need to bring the coding back then at least your expert may have been able to steer the ship to some extent. Tags: startupcto. Your thoughts?

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