Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?
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Steve Blank
APRIL 2, 2009
Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 28, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry. Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
This ad is packed with trust boosting factors like a ratings extension, a review, social proof, and sitelinks that provide more detailed options while highlighting service benefits. Exercise: Review your geographic reports within analytics, segment your reports by traffic source/ medium and review the conversion rates.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.
Steve Blank
JULY 27, 2009
And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. OK, done.) “Steve, I would really appreciate it if you could review my business plan and forward it to Mike Maples at Maples Investments.
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