Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The explicit goal of 10-15 customer interviews a week along with the requirement for building a continual series of minimal viable products, provides metrics that track the team’s progress. Realism in a class means, how well does the class content match an actual problem in practice? Working Memory and Reflection.

Lean 435

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 435

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Lean 76

Lean San Francisco Web Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

No vanity metrics should be looked at. Again, the answer is derived from the hard-won wisdom of the scientific method: making specific, concrete predictions and then testing them via experiments that are supposed to match those predictions helps scientists train their intuition towards the truth. No vanity metrics should be looked at.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all. My belief is that what makes product visionaries awesome is their ability to have radical empathy for their customers, and then to rigorously hold teams accountable for building solutions that match that standard.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Japan Continuous Deployment 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. It was painful to watch.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

He focuses on having a clear idea of the problem you are trying to solve, running experiments, and then: "Did the results of your test match what you expected? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Product Development 68

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 68

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On the other hand, we could match them strength-for-strength as soon as we knew where to go. Im also a big fan of John Boyds work, and your story "from the inside" is a really insightful way of matching maneuver warfare to the political arena. 5comments: Jed Christiansen said. Fantastic post. Oh, and thanks for volunteering!

Campaign 84

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile 84

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

They mix/match examples from online, and then try and piece it together to fit their needs. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Just because it works, doesnt mean its good or maintainable.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

" I did not even know 20% of our customers were from Australia and that 9 days ago they all stopped coming to our site. " From: " Oh my God I did not know that metric had crashed for that segment!! You can choose Matches exactly or does not contain or ends with or whatever. Choose the metric you want to focus on.

Analytics 105

Analytics Customer Framework Web 105

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome). It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend. It is not that hard.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I haven’t been to the desert in Australia, but it’s about the equivalent of that. Open, and that match there is Roger Federer and he won that tournament that year. I have a house in Brisbane, Australia, and I own my car, etc. I’ll show you a picture in a moment, so it’s an Australia-wide website devoted to this card game.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

However, its not very useful to mix and match features from different models. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

San Francisco 148

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 148

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Lets look at a specific example, and start to think through what the metrics might look like if we attempted to measure it: Customer gets a synthetic message saying: "upload some photos!" Levers of engagement Lets start with the levers of engagement.

Viral 140

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Startup Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Because the people performing the task had the vision that most exactly matched users' subconscious needs. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94