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Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product

Steve Blank

Our press infuriated the established companies who had spent years building games that sold well, but had zero press recognition. One magazine called us the “Digital Dream Team”, young, edgy and hip, and by the looks of the company (great building, nice furniture, and well dressed 20-year olds) we were trying to live up to the reputation.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

One of my favorite quotes on the topic comes from Paul Graham of Y Combinator who once said… Paul Graham , Y Combinator : “Whenever you hear anyone talk about ‘growth hacks,’ just mentally translate it in your mind into ‘b t’.” many are run purely on intuition and conjecture, which can be poisonous. via RobSobers.com).

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. And in these particular examples, the scale achieved is astronomical — on the order of hundreds of millions or billions of users. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. Contact Me.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer.

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Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

One of her first comments was, “I didn’t know you even worked here. Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley.