Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for? If so, where?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

She worked as a sales clerk at a fashion company called Celine. I still remember it – she used to shop at those kinds of places, and she had to become a sales clerk. They had to fight for the right to compete. Then they had to compete and win as well. He couldn’t come back. So my mom had to get a job.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

It became clear to me that the mission of marketing in most companies has to be to support sales. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough. But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. was the worst ever.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis. It does not show data for non-US visitors to your site.

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