Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Color Wheels are wrong?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Le 29 Branding – crowdspring.co/18mj9h9.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a video production company, one of the most common enquiries we get is something along the lines of “We want some videos made but don’t really know what kind of videos.” So I’ve decided to compile the top three most common and effective types of videos for (almost) all businesses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Let’s see what we’ve learned in 100 years of designing controls and automation for aircraft cockpits and pilots, and what it might mean for cars. Autonomous Cars. Aircraft Cockpits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link].

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. If you haven’t updated your website design in years, now is the time! There are so many unique web design capabilities available now that will help you stand out amongst your competitors. Host virtual events.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. They also offer a video option which I think is awesome. Short-form videos were a new content type that no other platform was targeting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

Clever founding teams can do much more with limited resources and automate workflows for both consumers and enterprises across verticals. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B so far in 2023. For investors, deploying capital in this space remains attractive, but it’s not always straightforward.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. For example, in the awareness stage use how-to guides, whitepapers, explainer videos, etc. The video itself uses subtitles. User privacy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy has designed a range of slimline wallets to solve this challenge. Bellroy follows this with a brief animated video that uses storytelling ( scientifically linked to emotional responses ) to describe common pain points and answer the critical question, “Why do I need it?”. Take Bellroy , a leather accessories retailer.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. Use semiotic analysis to design messaging that resonates. In a study of more than 35,000 landing pages, Unbounce found that effective copy had more than twice the impact of design on conversion rates.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

We celebrate good design, clean code, and clever ideas, while disregarding marketing as a fuzzy practice whose benefits are immeasurable at best, and dubious by most accounts. I would demo beta versions of the app with videos, and people would smile and clap. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. Spiceworks lets IT professionals add videos to help explain their experience to people without a deep IT background. Recruiters and job ads now commonly ask for GitHub profiles.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Fully digital worlds, not unlike what’s seen in video games, that feel like “places you could live and inhabit.” I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games: Everything which is a website now will become a “metaverse destination” before 2030.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. The Customer Development Process I teach and write about is designed to do just that. You may have a set of hypothesis about them but you really don’t know.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” Discover how business-owners can design workshops that are fast, deliver strong results, and eliminate stress from the process. We're going to talk about her book, the Two Hour Workshop Blueprint, how business owners can Design Workshops, fast, deliver strong and without stress. So vertical, you're the expert.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. Now, not all stock photographs are bad… …just the designers who use them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. In the game business of the early 1990’s video was at best a brief narrative, a distraction you maybe watched once, not the core of the game.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. As I’m sure Pip.io would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. Ambitious goals.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. World Videos Featured: Facebook. One got added to the latter category Tuesday: design firm Cuban Council, which will be shipping off a portion of its team to help improve the look of Google+.).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living” Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Creators Platform Dependency.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore some of our biggest takeaways and how they can apply to your own form design. Closer inspection of the user videos revealed the causes. The user is forced to scroll to continue interacting with the field, hence the strong vertical pattern in the above scan paths. Methodology. The Halifax DOB Field.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Six months ago I published a post on VC Cafe titled, the state of creative automation , diving into vertical applications of AI on content creation of all sorts; from text (GPT-3 and the likes) to Synthetic video (powered by companies like HourOne). Users can simply type text to create a synthetic video. Fake Tom Cruise.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Think Again [VIDEO]. Fake Ad Rips Internet Explorer 9 in Most Devastating Way Possible [VIDEO]. Web Video Roundup. Dev & Design Highlights.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Google “video hosting platforms,” and you’ll get about 50 million results, along with several paid ads. Here’s a breakdown of the key features—and drawbacks—for eight popular video hosting platforms. You don’t pay to host videos on YouTube, nor do you need a license to create your own library of publicly available videos.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups. And tech has become a necessity in our lives, and that place is now further solidified with the fast adoption of video conferencing and digital creation platforms. Technology and modern life cannot be pulled apart.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. This is an innovative but slightly bizarre design technique common to the 1920s and 1930s that conserved the number of vacuum tubes required for a radio receiver.

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