Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. What did our customers think?

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. It’s like saying “I don’t want to learn how to code, can I just get a top developer salary without it?” Always compare data between segments and distributions.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Advertising.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review. Then some reviews (they float by). I love this.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. The networking company will close the deal early next year with Cariden Bay, which specializes in software for planning, designing and engineering computer networks. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. The Week in Review. By Sarah Lacy.

Technical Review 93

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? I think we'd had, even actually apart from COVID, we'd had like three code events in our department that day. A code is when somebody is having a life threatening acute problem. So I think it was a shift when we had three code events.

San Francisco 68

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings. In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search.

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