Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Our system is not designed to do that. Our system is designed to try to predict the future in ten, 20 or 30 years.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

That suggests that a store selling baby products could be a successful venture. With the increased demand for video content, a video marketing agency can offer a wide range of services, from video production to distribution and analysis. No of the state of the economy, baby supplies are always needed, and so is child care.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 118

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen – crowdspring.co/ZEAcxq. How To Build A World-Class Design Portfolio | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1uDPSu7.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. How to Design a Website that People Trust - crowdspring.co/1bPcyPf.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity.” Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. This lets us know how important our products and expertise in natural skin care are for people all over the world! As far my interior designing company, for example, is no longer doing business in the same way.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 120

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. When we look to design metrics, we are looking to deepen our understanding of the machinery, and how it works.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

www.gv.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

At the Google Ventures Design Studio, we have a five-day process for taking a product or feature from design through prototyping and testing. We call it a product design sprint. This is the sixth in a series of seven posts on running your own design sprint. On day 2 you drew concept sketches.

Design 45

Design Product Software Review Seattle 45

Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. The first and foremost category of quality for engineers is the mainstream definition of quality: “Did the code work as designed?” Technical design quality. Nothing feels as satisfying as an elegant design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. People pay for a great user experience, in finding the right product, buying it, using it, and getting support. Target a portfolio of solutions, not just one product. by Patrick J.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go. We had designed it and we were executing it.

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View from Seed

JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. yet there isn’t a product out there that is effective at helping this workforce acquire skills and stay ahead. yet there isn’t a product out there that is effective at helping this workforce acquire skills and stay ahead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. People pay for a great user experience, in finding the right product, buying it, using it, and getting support. Target a portfolio of solutions, not just one product. by Patrick J.

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Demand Portfolio Metrics Customer 345

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A customer can purchase both a high-end and a low-end product together. Again, personalization will become more prevalent in product design and marketing. They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. Segmentation has become more challenging.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Here’s why. m pleased.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

What makes it such a game-changer is that it provides target metrics, strategies and tactics that early stage startups can use to guide them through the crucial go-to-market phase. While most do a great job of engineering products, many lack the experience required to engineer a market for those products. Market-Engineering.

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Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It’s common, perhaps the norm, for startups to pivot like that—to discover that a product is catching on in unintended ways worth pursuing. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. How’d it happen? The result?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. When to make your first analytics hire.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

To some degree the best way to describe a pre-seed round is that you know it when you see it, as the definition is squishy… but most pre-seed rounds are characterized as relatively small ($750K or less), early in company formation (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger “seed” round ($1M-$3M) within 12 months. A continuum.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. Think about it that way, filling up their shelves with product.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). We actively help each portfolio company manage their changing priorities as they grow. Priority = product-market fit . The seed round is all about finding product-market fit.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Metrics Hiring 163

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

In an environment becoming increasingly more competitive, it is becoming critical for companies to leverage external platforms & APIs to build a product fast and concentrate their resources on their core products. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read. gathered at the event.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

As we enter into a new golden age of design, good design has never been more important to the success of a business. Consumer awareness of good design is at an all-time high, thanks to companies like Apple , Target , and Starbucks , who make design a top priority. Attractive design helps you stand out.

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Design Missouri Differentiation Advertising 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Survey design. Where do your consumers fall?

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. a "jungle" stage company would have a lower quota than a "highway" company).

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Couchsurfing is a bad product experience. This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. THE POWER OF THE DESIGN MINDSET. Everyone has couches, and now you can rent them.” I replied, “That sounds really interesting.

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

A while ago I posted an article on people that I think have something really valuable to say to product leaders. I also promised that I’d share a glossary to map the nomenclature and concepts he uses with the terminology I use in my writing and my work with product teams. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) = MVP Test.

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Lean Stealth Portfolio Engineer 63

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Portfolio. (3). "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. SaaS 13 Index*. The Index reflects the performance of 13 public saas companies. Started on Jan. internet.

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation. Clio has set up a “data literacy course.”

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San Francisco Metrics SQL Portfolio 86

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Portfolio. (3).

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