Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read. Successful on your platform but not sticking to guidelines, can also affect the rest of your customers - you need to help developers become more successful - can you outsource support in an authentic way? gathered at the event.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. While it’s hard to make universal recommendations, we’d suggest that designers use the cue that works best in its context. Designers should choose cues for scrolling based on the content, the business category and the overall design.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

It’s such a difficult and often counterintuitive game that the more time and attention you devote to accepting guidance at the beginning, the more misery you will be spared in your golfing career for the rest of your days.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Every aspect of your restaurant’s design should fulfill one or of these two roles : . Understand your customer’s motivations when designing promotions as you want to blow your trumpet around a trait that the customer would readily agree with, and thus respond to every time. Helps customers identify with your restaurant. Promotions.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It needs to be a place that you enjoy, and it should be reflective of the design scheme in the rest of your home. You want to find something that matches the decor in the rest of the house; your office should fit right in with the design scheme. Your home office should be a place that you can be proud of.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Little did we know.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

The rest is worth reading as well. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.] If you have, I’d be very interested in your take on it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Further refinement of Product/Market fit could be done locally by using Value Proposition Design. With 317 million people the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

If you understand why each metric is where it is, the rest of this post will fill you with euphoric joy rarely experienced without physical contact. When designating a metric as a KPI, this is your foremost consideration: depth of influence. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. And the rest is history.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Why is it only alarming now? Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 7, 2019

That only worked because you could connect everyone via technology—routing phonecalls, e-mails, design documents, etc. As emerging markets start to achieve more equality with the rest of the world in labor cost, that arbitrage starts to go away. Wethos will add more verticals of work. Noken will add more countries.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Would you sell an ebook version on this site for all the rest of us trying to incorporate your model in our startups? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Because of this, tourism-based retailers aren’t able to build up a regular clientele in the same way as other businesses—which is why it’s especially important for retailers who rely on tourism to know how to master their vertical and how to attract customers in unconventional ways. Buff up your curb appeal.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

We talked about how moving the ball side to side was good for control, but to achieve that yearning score, we needed to move the ball vertically down the field. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. We designed our products for all the ins and outs of life, including messes. 14- The name should be memorable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

The goal of information architects is to come up with a structure and design that balances users’ desires with business needs. Create customer personas and write user stories to design your site for real people. Your website should be designed for somebody, not everybody. Content precedes design. Plan for it!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Only after we have at least two products scaling successfully in at least two emerging market regions, will we have proven the commercial model for medical device design with and for emerging markets. We need to build on the success of Hemafuse to introduce new product lines. Believe in yourself and believe in the people around you.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

If we can assume that a searcher’s goal is to find the product that’s right for them, there are some essential principles that go into designing a search experience that will get them to the exact product they’re looking for with as little hassle as possible. Button design. Understanding how people view websites.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your suggestion for picking a niche assumes you’ve thought through the rest of the Market Type alternatives. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It is related to business model. Not sure I would make the same definitive statements about best bet for Market Type. Great quote. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The formula for exits was a variation of the formula they used in the Internet bubble, morphing into: brand, hype and sell the company. So what’s left?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

They both run on open AI's GPT model, and both are designed to help you get more done and to grow your business faster. So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use. It really is the quickest way to make complex ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

A good rule of thumb is 2,000–3,000 pageviews per design screen, and also per device (i.e. In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Attention maps.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

And since the average website is between 90 and 95% text, one leading expert wisely observes that “web design is ninety-five percent typography.”. Once the drop-cap hits him in the eye, he needs to know what the rest of the word is to close the loop. And once he knows the rest of the word, he needs to know the rest of the sentence.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Reply Mark Essel , on November 25, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: Diggin’ the presentation so far, looking forward to catching the rest of this later in the day. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. This is a must watch, and you might as well check out the slides and relevant links. [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. A prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Once you’re on this page, you will see a vertical navigation on the left side of your account. eBay will guide you through the rest of the process. As you can see from the image above, y ou do get to add a personal touch to your Store and there are plenty of designs to choose from and to tailor. Click the “Sell an Item” link.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Depending on your specialty (the vertical bar of your T), you may gravitate toward one language or the other. While it fetches data, it continues to run and loads the rest of the page (until it receives the new version and alters the UI). Let’s start with the most important question: What’s your “T”? “T,” T,” as in your T-shape.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? It gave me a sense of purpose for the rest of the war. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Blank clan. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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