crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. from blog archives) – [link]. The Legal Risks And Dangers Of $99 Logo Stores – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. But I Just Wanted To Be Fair… – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Optimizing Your Communications in a Recession describes how the right communications technologies and strategy can help your company stay profitable during a down economy. Make it Play Nice with the Modern Enterprise IT Poll: How Much Do You Consider a Vendors Road Map When Making a Purchasing Decision? startupcto

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. 4 corporate blogging strategies – [link].

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Brendan McManus said: Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development [link] #startup #advice [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

How would that change my company strategy? It’s something VC’s can ask about, rationally analyze and feel comfortable if you can articulate a defensible technical and patent strategy. In the early market customer/market risk is mitigated by strategies that assume no market exists.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter. What should we do about this competitor copying our strategy? Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static.

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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

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

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

and 3x kept coming up time and again in attacker/defender ratios when I gamed out our market entry strategies. It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) No, not really.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

They are tied to and influence the strategy/direction of the business. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. Having written extensively on business cards and distribution strategy, Colour Graphics understand that even in today’s digital world, the small rectangular piece of printed card still pulls a punch.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” I just want to do strategy.”

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

First I need to make sure what we really learned was information we could base a company strategy on. Now we could execute a relentless come-from-behind strategy off of the information we had learned and discovered from our customers. Now what was the strategy? Now the question was what to do with it. What did I learn so far?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Save yourself the energy by developing a strategy right out of the gate, including a plan B or a couple of backup products if things aren’t going as well as expected. Think SEO and social media strategy. Stay on top of things like refunds, returns, SEO strategy, social media presence, and responding to reviews.

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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 9, 2009

The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.) 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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

From tagging tweets and posts, to simply notifying business chambers and local media, you will find many venues and organizations that will be motivated to share your story on social media. So when I tell you that book publishing has become a new cornerstone of my own inbound marketing strategy, I am not saying it lightly.

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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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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Surely there are some business and technology strategy problems youre going to need help with that your lead developer cant help you answer. Yourself and your lead dev, along with your other key leaders like product and sales managers, would need to listen, internalize and execute the strategy. Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Maples Investments is the only venture investor I know who has oriented their entire strategy to lean startups. We borrowed John Boyd s OODA loop , a concept from military strategy. Combined with the technology trends above, it also enables rapid deployment strategies like just-in-time scalability. you get the idea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Get out of the building and meet people.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink. ← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. For example, tagging content to buyer personas allows you to see what personas you’re ignoring.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

“Black Hole of Packaging&# Strategy Since we had no facts, other than my opinion that something wasn’t right, I took our staff on a field trip. ( You can’t do marketing from inside the building.) (These are basic practices for companies selling through retail stores.) demand creation strategy).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Chief Technology Officer Summary The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) reports to the CEO or board and is responsible the companys technology strategy and implementation. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This process assists search marketers in shaping their content strategies far more confidently. If you’re less technically focused, but curious as to how you might find ways to use this data for your selves, you’ll need a copy of Martin Hawksey’s Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS v5.1). Here’s an example.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

dumped Détente and embraced a new strategy to counter the Warsaw Pact by not matching them tank for tank or solider to solider. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter. Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy. Yet while the U.S. In response the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Tags: How To Strategy business community inspiration start-up tips business plan crowdsourcing entrepreneur entrepreneurship research small biz small business smallbiz start-up startup startups. I hope you enjoy and will look forward to your comments! Resources: 2007 Economic Census.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. I call this a horizontal business model because instead of going deep in just one industry, the strategy is to move from market to market, creating websites and products to sell to unrelated industries until you have a small army of small income streams.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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