Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model? Choose the engineers who understand the meaning of staying on task and fulfilling a business requirement.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Knox team was a great mix of hands-on device engineers and business development. They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. Alex DiNello CEO at Relievant Medsystems was their mentor.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

After a week of hectic customer discovery , the team further refined their new business model. Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. Any IP you need to license? How many people?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It doesn’t mean that you should change your business model because one person suggested it, but listed to the feedback and if you see similar patterns over and over again, make changes. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.” I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. New” infrastructure such as Fortnite’s unreal engine or Unity will become a critical technology enabler for many companies across different sectors.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

“Stopping Piracy” and “Protecting IP” sound like good ideas in theory. Since the DMCA, we’ve basically operated in an environment of “ask forgiveness rather than permission” when it comes to copyright and IP online. Back to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Are there greater opportunities for higher rankings in the search engines, or is the design of your website helping or hindering you? ( It can help you consider areas you may not have thought of and the vast majority of overseas banks will require a business plan before they approve an overseas bank account. Business model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Some companies license their chip designs – as software building blocks, called IP Cores – for wide use. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. That’s the whole business model and it works really well. What’s the best way to localize results? I was just curious if you were doing work for U.S.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. So the team got to work.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus. That’s the power of marketing to a chosen few rather than everyone. Define your ABM strategy to engage profitable accounts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2020

In the end, it’s all about having a growth engine and running as many (quality) experiments as possible.”. But picking the business model and building a product for user-driven growth is very difficult to do intentionally.”. With the coronavirus outbreak,” says Fry, “the match rates for reverse IP lookup are declining.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Dont do what we did.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I have the vision, model and the core elements of the ideas established. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. The other stuff you’re talking about, to me – I still don’t understand the business model and the pain point. You’re an engineer, is that true? So, let’s just use this as an example.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. Anyone wanting to be able to do their job or a run a business would find this extremely difficult. ‘ Oh, but it doesn’t suit our business model’ .

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. Fring - fring is a mobile social communication hub that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences over IP all from one integrated contact list on their mobile devices.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley. We needed to be building leveraged business models in scale. Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.”

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Allot Communications.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Is it someone else?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Check them out. But thatâ??s

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