Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Why did we believe that these magazines would care? For these magazines to find out that they didn’t truly understand what their customers cared about got their full attention.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Magazine’ Inc. We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2020

If you’re in this kind of vertical, it’s a great place to strut your stuff. SEO stands for search engine optimization and it’s essentially a strategy aimed to help your brand rank higher on Google. The post 4 Creative Ways to Raise Brand Awareness appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Using SEO strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . They can also come in search results on search engines like Google, and they can be included as recommended content by discovery platforms. . The post What to Know About Banner Advertising appeared first on The Startup Magazine. How Does Banner Advertising Work?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2019

The ideal solution is to maximise the use of vertical space with the help of pallets; in other words, go upwards and not outwards. Vertical storage is going to work out for the best of your warehouse in the long run. The post Warehouse Mess, Unnecessary Stress: Get Your Workplace in Order appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

It means that maintenance engineers will be required, further increasing the company expenses. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. As such, the company will always be overcharged. Horizontal Scaling.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

In an analysis of all of the most linked content on Moz.com , Inbound engineer Casey Henry found that the content with the most links also seemed to have a higher word count. Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. According to the data, the more you write, the more people stop reading. .

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example). While traditional media efforts (press releases, magazine write-ups, etc.) SEO should lead with intent. Remember Omnisend’s podcast?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas. The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

In talking to farmers and farm equipment dealers they learned the farm-specific places to create demand; trade shows like the World Ag Expo and magazines such as Vegetable Grower , Ag Source , Farm Equipment and Tractor House. They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. strategy, he has succeeded in getting his company featured in Realtor Magazine's "Cool Tools" section. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photo by svilen001.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. As I talk to established media companies, their responses are surprisingly uniform. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation. Vertical bar/sidebar navigation is when navigation items are arranged in a single column, one on top of another. The vertical bar/sidebar navigation design pattern is seen all over the place, on virtually every kind of website. Common Characteristics of Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

It works by compiling a list of the best vendors in a specific vertical that share some commonality – location, for example. Every vendor ranked benefits from the traffic, audience, and leads produced through top search engine rankings at zero additional cost. The result? Here’s a broad example.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

You want Smashing Magazine on a Web-enabled TV ? When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Likewise, Web pages were akin to pages in a book or magazine. You want CNN on an xBox ? But that’s me.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Signs of Success One of the things you do right in a startup, is you move from one cheap and cramped building to another as you grow, with desks, cubicles and engineers piled cheek to jowl. Engineers were packed in cubicles or desks right on top of each other? Now every engineer can have their own office. Is the story over?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Or through traditional print advertising in newspapers or magazines? Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon. Via social media?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

Great learning experience and worked with some very creative folks outside the design realm – computer programmers, engineers and product managers are creative people too! Magazines – I used to read everything but time restrictions have curtailed that activity of late. What is your dream design project?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Until you actually begin marinating in the same industry conferences, newsletters, magazines, etc. You’ll spend time at the conferences that people go to about that topic, read all the books about that topic, read the magazine articles, the news articles about that topic. At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Imagine you hear from an engineer that they are worried that a certain payment subsystem is unreliable, and will therefore double-charge some customers. To a lot of smart engineers, that sounds crazy. To a lot of smart engineers, that sounds crazy. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

If you believed the opinions in the marketing department, the customers were in science, engineering, color desktop publishing, and a variety of applications with no single industry or application dominating the list. What magazines did they read? Three publications: In our market there were a myriad of magazines to read.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board. One of the reasons I had joined the company was seeing these boards as hope for the future. What could we do?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have. You couldn’t read it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Are You Engineering Your First Impression? As an informal observation, it’s not uncommon to see different companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. I know you’ve heard me say it before, but it only takes.05 05 seconds for a website to make a first impression.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Think of it as 7 bonus post-mortems on the house.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn. Intelligence As I leafed through the Cray sales material, a glossy magazine with the headline Cray Channels jumped out of the pile. It was Volume 7 issue 2.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

These sites are often straight transfers of physical magazines, complete with editorial columns, industry news, and upcoming events. Most niche industries have some form of representation on these channels, like: This subreddit for commercial audio-visual engineers. The British call-center industry is a perfect example.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When it comes to achievement, my philosophy is to look to the people who’ve already landed what I want and reverse-engineer what they’ve done. Buffett says he spends up to six hours a day reading books, magazines, and newspapers. Lessons from successful entrepreneurs. He was only 27 at this point! billion dollars.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. A final recommendation, one you might not think fits in this category.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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