Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But we knew something they didn’t; the total available market for color graphics boards was measurable by looking at an adjacent market, the color desktop publishing software market. First, I presented what I had learned. You could sense the skepticism in my staff meeting as I described what I found.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source. Your ads should be in keeping with how you present yourself online and offline. Todd Brown Marketing.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Lean marketing. Two major publications on the launch of our platform: DreamIt Ventures’ Slidebeam Hopes to Be Instagram for Presentations. The outcome of this?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Reply DK , on September 15, 2009 at 3:04 am Said: Best summary of the past, present and the future of venture business. Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between [.] [.] Reply Lee Hower , on September 16, 2009 at 3:38 am Said: Excellent post, thx.

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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. My rule was no magazine could review our boards without us present. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I recently completed the Validation step (less the industry analyst presentations) and am ready to move on to Customer Creation. I’ve built my company using the Customer Development Model from Day One. So the ask is made — shall it be given? Actually, I’m amazed that I’m the first to actually test the post.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. It may have been true that years ago software was different.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. PEStack.com : a comprehensive database of private equity focused software, data and marketplace providers. you can see the video here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. The "letters of the alphabet" scheme I presented earlier is one (bad) example of this type. The "letters of the alphabet" scheme I presented earlier is one (bad) example of this type. Incremental and proportional software complexity.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Armstrong invented regeneration, super-regeneration and superheterodyne as receiver design classes – which until software-defined radios (SDRs) came along that was the whole ball of wax and even SDRs simply re-implement the same classes digitally. Farnsworth was also bullied to an early death by Sarnoff and RCA.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Content does not fill a website; a website is the stage on which designers present content. 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. It might cover many pages or just a few tweet-length sentences.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. I asked my wife to read and critique every major presentation and document I wrote. Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Picture the scene: the entire company (all 15 of us) are present. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:39 am Said: [.]

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. ” Bill Gurley : That’s presenting the argument a very specific way where you’re forcing them to opt into something else instead of just opting out. It’s crazy.

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