Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » O que há de errado com o modelo de Product Development - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 6, 2009 at 7:47 am Said: [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Startups face a lot of challenges, but putting together the tools and infrasture they need to get up and running shouldnt be one of them. The Startup Toolkit identifies the top tools in seven critical categories: productivity, project management, accounting, file sharing, payments, web content management and support. ReadWriteStart.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The hardware held no interest for our target customers until it had become a “whole product,” – that is not until the computer had the complete suite of applications appropriate for a scientist in their specific vertical market – i.e. all the applications to run computational fluid dynamics or finite element analysis.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can you do this without running out of money? We’ve been running on small investments from friends and family or angels. Finding out whether you have a repeatable, scalable sales model is the Customer Validation step of Customer Development. This is the most important phase in customer development. How do we raise the big bucks?”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Hopefully we won’t run into any wildlife bigger than us (other than our assortment of rattlesnakes, rabbits, deer, bobcats, wild boar, and mountain lions). Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Brendan McManus, [Startup Digest].

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These can be split into two main categories: Engagement metrics: The number of likes, shares, saves, comments, and clicks that your content receives on a given platform. If you are running a business, you could also evaluate the number of referrals and conversions that your post or content makes. Repurpose the good old stuff.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

& Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.] Get back up and running.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Just to give you a sense of scale of how big this electronic warfare effort was, we built over 30,000 jammers , with entire factories running 24/7 in the U.S. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. That every bomb run was accompanied by electronic warfare planes.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

From testing the wrong things to running the tests incorrectly, there are lots of ways to get it wrong. How to Archive Past Tests? A/B tests, while most popular to talk about, are just one type of online experiment – you can also run Multivariate and Bandit tests. Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide: 1.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Lots of people keep their ‘head in the cave’ and go without customer contact while burning their savings and running up credit cards. Don’t we have to get the site/plugins up and running before we gather information from users? Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

To do that we needed to build a supercomputer, but since the RISC processors weren’t fast enough, we decided to build a multiprocessor supercomputer, (running up to 4 processors in parallel.) I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group. A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

In it’s core, A/B testing belongs to a category of Scientific Optimization techniques, where statistics is used to increase the odds that what your visitors see on your site is the best-performing version. The persuasive end includes the most-viewed areas of you site like your homepage, category pages, product pages.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

While their titles might be what their business cards said, titles were not their job – at least in any marketing department I was running. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Yet the customers not only had told us who they were – color desktop publishers – but what they cared most about – graphics performance when running their four key applications. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ? Very much in addition to the text.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Connect (off)line? Thanks much.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Instead of just listing off the talents you’ll need to instill in your children to encourage them to become the good entrepreneurs of the future, I’ve sourced a number of gift ideas that fit within these categories. This way, you’ll be able to use the holidays as an opportunity to buy presents that serve a greater purpose.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

A mid-range setup, including condenser mic, stand, upgraded mixer, acoustic panels (for a makeshift recording room) and Adobe Audition CC software will run $150 and up. Hosting fees range from free to $99/month, but the most common starting point will run about $20/month for reasonably robust management and reporting. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Less significant is that ABTasty has no Bayesian-style stats to address alpha inflation caused by peaking at running tests. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc. It’s really ideal for startups.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Rather than risk having your car repossessed, you should run the loan or investment through the company. Blog Categories. Monthly archive. CATEGORIES. Doing so is very risky, however, because you are personally responsible for repayment of the loan until the obligation is properly transferred to your company.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

  Those that cannot deliver, or who mistake relationships with others as an opportunity to run for office, will increasingly be marginalized.    Those that cannot deliver, or who mistake relationships with others as an opportunity to run for office, will increasingly be marginalized.  Categories.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

RSS Archive. Run with extra load. so any of those scripts that haven’t been run since then might depend on old assumptions. Maybe it sounds stupid to run fire drills on the live site, but testing environments are not sufficient and this is really good insurance. Run infrequent stuff more often in general.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories. But from a customer experience point of view, Im not yet sold. Im not sure.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). One of the frequent questions raised about Groupon is what their long run gross profit margins may look like. But other categories make up a healthy chunk of the offer mix. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

That generally comes from running the business together. It's not that the startup cannot outsource or otherwise satisfy the needs you outlined, but having someone who is passionate about your company, as well as committed to the long run, appears better. The other problem area is that of growth. Some interesting thoughts.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically. If Sarah wanted to keep and run the company, she may be able to structure some sort of junior-debt like cash flow repayment as previously discussed.    But details in each category vary dramatically. Categories. « Leaving a Trail | Main. |

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

So I hired a VP of Marketing from Sega, one of the video game platforms on which our games would run. You could explain that, while you had access to more storage space per game, you were still running on the same Intel chip with the same graphics board. What kind of question was that?

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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+.). There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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Up and Running

MAY 26, 2016

Starting and running a nonprofit is richly rewarding in and of itself. The FAQ page is a great place to start, because it helpfully breaks their content into relevant categories for easy perusal. While archived materials are only available for purchase, many of the upcoming webinars are free to attend. Free tools and resources.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Business of Software - Joel Spolskys forum which has been running for over a decade now. Full of smart people running their own startups and ISVs (independent software vendors). It is worth subscribing and browsing the categories and the developers. New Web Order. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. 5th November 2010. #.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). I guess if youve run a pattern across the middle with Ray Lewis waiting to knock your head off, a 6 minute pitch in front of a bunch of geeks is a piece of cake. Blog Archive. FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2019

No matter what kind of business you run, there is value in establishing hub pages for relevant areas of expertise. On each hub page, you would then create sub-categories, allowing you to share related content in an organized way. Eventually, it ends up buried in the recesses of the archives.

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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. Identify What Content Categories Matter Most. Common content categories to tag include: Author.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Google runs A/B tests. First, running A/B tests that dynamically swap elements via javascript is not content cloaking. If you’re running tests, this really isn’t a concern, as Google expects you to be providing dynamic experiences. Only run the experiment as long as necessary. Google has its own testing tool.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Many institutions have digital archives of historic maps. Also, if you are an entrepreneur, check out all the cool panels and presentations in the Entrepreneurship and Startups Track , which runs March 8–12 at SXSW.

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