Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.] People need to be left alone sometimes because they need other people. Balance is important.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. We Don’t Need Domain Experts When I looked around at our executive staff, there wasn’t a single founder who was a gamer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Pitches higher in the hierarchy tend to be more successful, and so if you can fit your company into one of those categories, you can get better results or better terms. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

When we had mastered the art, then I was ready to outsource it again, but not before this became a core competency of my department. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startups are – and will remain – an art, not a science. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Reply steveblank , on August 21, 2009 at 10:20 pm Said: David, No advice is applicable in all cases.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 12, 2018

Inspired to share everything that I’d learned with the world, I decided to leave my successful corporate career and pursue what I was truly passionate about, creating a brand that would draw from this rich archive yet embody the complexity of modern-day Africa. Thanks to Andrew Bull, Bright Arts Agency ! #19-

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Looking at your website, website’s structure, your SEO plan, and content or editorial plan, overlap significantly in the category of strategy, and while you have to address them in an integrated way, you also have to start thinking differently about content and how you’re going to use it to meet some of your business objectives.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

BTW, I don’t know to be hopeful or concerned that that this is the state of the art of analytical thinking at this agency. It’s a useful read to explore and challenge analytical arguments and mind-sets.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

People reject simple-but-clean-home-made, thinking that art-college-designers have something better to offer. I only once moved into a new apartment that did not have someone else’s wear and tear to fix. That one posh place made no difference to my misery/happiness index.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. She knows the internal politics are tricky, but she’s navigated them well. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Although Learning Management is old news, Talent Management represents a broader set of emerging functionality around internal employee management and development, and has come to define the broader category which is also known as Human Capital Management. Blog Archive. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

If our automated warehousing system is state of the art and provides us a 10% increase in Net Operating Income, what can we do with that money? If our competitors have already achieved state of the art costs, and we are already at a disadvantage, what can we do about that, if anything? Categories. Trust but Verify.or

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In the end, they fall into three broad categories: Vertcal partitioning. Did a DB term of art come from UO? Many have been proposed, and I wont discuss them in detail here. I really enjoy reading stories of how people have tackled this problem. Two of my favorites are from Flixster and LiveJournal. January 7, 2009 12:49 PM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The difference between the art we made when we were kids and the art we make now is that when we were kids, we didn’t care about whether our images “worked.” When they’re created for marketing our businesses, our image goals fall into common categories. You see, I have art directed more photo shoots than I can remember.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Getting customers to see your service as #1 for a given category is what positioning is all about. Id only ever consider going to #2 on the list if #1 failed me completely. Thats how most of us are - we only ever consider the #1 provider of any given service if it is available. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Being able to sort out which common wisdom you want to listen to versus which you want to ignore, makes starting a company an art, not a science. Ignoring the impossible to make a startup happen sometimes means ignoring all the facts staring you in the face as well. Is it just as simple as applying your methods to both constituents?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I spoke about the state of the art in computational reservoir simulation and what could be accomplished using finite difference and finite element methods on the new class of machines that were coming from companies like ours.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. In other words, a marketing department.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The same is true of brand-name products in almost every category (and it can be measured ). For example, many customers derive satisfaction from feeling like they bought the "best" product in a given category, even if that product has no objective performance difference from its nearest competitor. Again, great post.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

We chatted with a panel of expert aesthetes in the space, including Spymaster designer Eston Bond , veteran creative director Rich Barrett , designer/developer Warren Benedetto , Mike Rundle of 9rules and Beak fame, and the Paul du Coudray Lowdown , the winner of this years Rails Rumble appearance category.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We can’t just diversify across industries or geographies.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Get notified of new posts by email Popular Posts Updated Customer Development Image The Art of the Customer Development Conversation How to find early adopters What is Customer Development? A How-To Customer Development e-book Cust Dev Downloads Check out our download section! My Recent Tweets #SanDiego added to Startup Digest!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Managing an ad campaign is an time consuming art. Google Adwords Let’s start with the most obvious way to get paid traffic. Google Adwords. You can gain dramatic productivity by using campaign generators, but you still need to monitor your campaign and tweak them (and your website). For TaskArmy , I am looking to target freelancers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Those differences are actually predictable, and fall into categories, and those categories are called market types. A possible approach is to "steal" another job category. And yet, depending on who you talk to and what jobs you apply for, you may find an easier or harder time getting the job. There are four: Existing market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

instant messaging add-on - it’s not a category that exists in her mind. Heres a little taste from a story Ive mentioned on this blog a few times, but havent discussed in detail, about the decision at IMVU to abandon our IM add-on concept; you can also watch an excerpt on YouTube. I mean, it requires a lot of explanation.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Managing an ad campaign is an time consuming art. Google Adwords Let’s start with the most obvious way to get paid traffic. Google Adwords. You can gain dramatic productivity by using campaign generators, but you still need to monitor your campaign and tweak them (and your website). For TaskArmy , I am looking to target freelancers.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Leaving a good comment is an art. It is for me a conscious effort to remember to leave a comment. I read countless of articles online, many of which I can contribute to, but I just don’t naturally think of participating to the discussion. Don’t spam, don’t be pushy.

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

You might start with The Name Inspector’s classification of names and try to think of something in each category. Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little. Categories. One good way to increase your chances of having great name ideas is to try creating different types of name. Use collective intelligence. Name (required).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

i’ve heard this same advice from my art teachers, to employers, and some mentors. 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 [.] Keep it coming.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Leaving a good comment is an art. It is for me a conscious effort to remember to leave a comment. I read countless of articles online, many of which I can contribute to, but I just don’t naturally think of participating to the discussion. Don’t spam, don’t be pushy.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

The results depend highly on how targeted your traffic is, and getting targeted traffic is an art. You have to pay around $200 per experiment, although it is a ridiculously small amount in what you would pay to test a business idea in the physical world, it can be costly when you get to the tenth experiment.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

The results depend highly on how targeted your traffic is, and getting targeted traffic is an art. You have to pay around $200 per experiment, although it is a ridiculously small amount in what you would pay to test a business idea in the physical world, it can be costly when you get to the tenth experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Yes, there will be a few who are truly just trolls for the sake of trolling, but your article gives me the impression that you lump a whole lot of "negative" feedback into the "troll" category. Given all this, I would submit that you still have more to learn in the community and communication department.

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