Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Part 1 of this post offered some suggestions on going to trade shows to generate awareness. This post offers suggestions if you are going to a trade show to generate leads. This post offers suggestions if you are going to a trade show to generate leads. Marketing is at the trade show as a support organization.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” Do you have thoughts on specifically how to restructure startups?

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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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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. I think that the three bucket are often overlapping where the Informational Content or Topical Content can drive Transactions or other direct consumer or trade revenue models. Tags Amazon. Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Contact Me. 26 September 2012.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged angel funding , Equity Split , founder equity , technology. They bring binary value to the team, and I wouldn’t trade them for anyhting. Bookmark the permalink. I’m intrigued though.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Did they attend trade shows? Two trade shows: Customers who had bought our products only went to two trade shows (if they went to any at all): MacWorld, the general Mac trade show, and if they were true publishing professionals, perhaps the Seybold Publishing conference. What magazines did they read? Which ones?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

All the marketing materials, data sheets, advertising, press releases, trade shows, etc. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Probably not – you need to be finding an audience, making sure that audience will trade you their attention for your content, and – most importantly – establishing a baseline for how much that attention is worth to advertisers. If you’re starting a new media company, does it make sense to charge from day one?

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Tags: socalcto startupcto. Click to email him. Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. All Rights Reserved.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

This not only gives an idea of the “cash-equity&# trade off for this company, but also how that trade off compares to peer companies. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged bonus , compensation , compstudy , equity , founder , pay , salary , startup.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

We were within three months of formally announcing our company and products at a major industry trade show. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] We made sure our competitor knew this. In fact, we made sure they knew what day at the show we were going to announce.

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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? He’s not a programmer by trade, but instead of waiting around for a cofounder to appear, he taught himself Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB ! Tags: startupcto. Start here. All rights reserved.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We were sitting in our conference room in our first “system-planning meeting” trying to define the specifications of our new supercomputer and make the trade-offs between what was possible to build, and what customers in this new market would actually want and need. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

™ All Articles. Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. Trade shows. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. ere events. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ advertising. assessments.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

I wrote this “Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters&# memo as a board member after I saw our company at a trade show. Before you go to a trade show sales and marketing need to agree to measurable goals. Foot traffic is heaviest in certain areas of a typical trade show floor. Shoot for a high-traffic location.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As your system begins to grow you will need to make trade offs. Dala December 19, 2007 at 10:17 am BigBlueHat » Blog Archive » Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups December 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR… « The Startup Guy. Tags: startupcto. Browse Smarter.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. .

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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. Obviously it’s not as fast a local virtual machine, but that’s a small trade-off for an affordable, comprehensive browser testing system.”. Most flexibility of any tool out there.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF .

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Would you trade a company that’s worth $150k/year in your pocket right now for $20 million if you knew it would be adding $2 million per year to your wallet in 10 years? Tags: startupcto. Selling the company will result in a one time payoff, but owning the company can pay dividends for years.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 4, 2011

ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteCloud All Posts VMworld Archives Case Studies White Papers RSS Twitter Facebook Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

News stories get archived, shared and remembered for long, so the impact on sales by being featured in a TV segment is much higher than being featured in advertisements during commercial breaks. This particular tactic is known as ‘trading up the chain’. Tag journalists to posts that would interest them.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Systems as complex as a trading exchange will involve much bigger numbers. No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis. Therefore it is exceptionally hard to be accurate with this, but you are in for a minimum spend of $50k. Best of luck!

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 17, 2010

The trade-off is between the time it takes to get a clear answer on the question at hand and the richness of the media. link] Tweets that mention Guy Nirpaz Blog » Blog Archive » Minimum Viable Product in practice – Thoughts from my startup journey — Topsy.com [.] You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.] Reply Ashleighs Dump » Blog Archive » Turning off gravity , on September 6, 2009 at 11:19 pm Said: [.] Some 2 million students have trained there since it opened in 1942. T hink of it as the ultimate vocational training school.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). For example, consider a site like Facebook in its early days. No positioning exists yet in the mind of the prospect. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Marketing is at its peak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization. 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. Memory-resident code made it slightly slower to iterate on scripts.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

If you dig into the archives of this blog, you won’t find any articles specifically about how to write a good headline. You will find quite a number of passive headlines in the archives, which I think reflects both my lack of confidence and lack of understanding of good headline writing.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 19, 2008

That is, he gets a client order for his normal (and large) brokerage business and then does a trade for his own account exploiting that inside information. He just did the trading in managed accounts and only charged transaction fees (no 1% of assets under management and no 20% of profits). This is, of course, illegal. Let me explain.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During this process we followed many trains of thoughts to their conclusion, eliminated many alternatives and developed a system of trade-offs to achieve the desired result. They had effectively missed out on the evolution of the concept, and on understanding the trade-offs we made. Tags: startupcto. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Altgate

MARCH 13, 2009

Madoff Securities, the other businesses my firm engaged in, proprietary trading and market making, were legitimate, profitable and successful in all respects.&# He then writes that, In connection with the purported trades [that he was telling his clients he was making], I…charge[d]…clients $0.04 This is so amazing to me.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

But in general you’re right, it comes down to trading time for money and realizing what you provide. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob (tags: software business) [.] #35 37 Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 12th - The zeitgeist daily on 08.12.09 at 5:42 pm [.]

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Altgate

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The center piece of the proposed legislation is a cap-and-trade program where the initial credits are auctioned off. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Green Business and tagged Clean Energy , Green Business , MIT , Obama , Viridus. Come join the discussion on Virid.us Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

Filed under: Conservation | Tagged: Steve Blank « Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location SuperMac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat – Product Line Extensions » 14 Responses Michael Buckbee , on April 15, 2009 at 7:37 am Said: A couple random thoughts: 1.

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