Steve Blank

JULY 24, 2012

Here’s how I learned it the hard way. The Dartmouth Football Team. The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. In my first meeting with the Onyx I was a bit nonplussed when the management team started trickling into their boardroom.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Good product managers are team players who understand that flying solo is a limiting and isolating choice. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

The onset of the pandemic has influenced major changes that have created new opportunities and changed the business landscape. We continue to experience different trends in consumer behavior as well as entrepreneurship. We've also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. Thanks to Erik Pham, Health Canal ! #2-

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In any case, you need to see past the shiny objects in web design pitches and know how PWA technology will (or won’t) help you achieve your marketing goals. This post delivers baseline technical knowledge about PWAs and focuses on aspects—like UX, SEO, and analytics—that most affect marketing teams. A web page can load only so fast.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Value Proposition (their company’s product or service.) The news from customers was not good. The Nine Teams Present. This post is part four.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2012

We had closed four $100,000 deals for our customer relationship management software. For the next several weeks, the entire E.piphany engineering department worked with Autodesk’s sales operation team to build a prototype using real Autodesk data. Joe Dinucci, our VP of Sales, was hot on the trail of our next big order.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

So how do you make sure that your startup makes it through the first few years on the current market? That’s how they can validate the potential of their project and gain feedback from users to make their product or service even better. In fact, 75 percent of venture-backed startups fail. . Develop a viable proposition.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. 1) Twitter. It’s not that simple,” he says.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. None of this was law, and nothing in writing required this; this was just how these firms did business to protect their large institutional customers who would buy the stock. Hire a CEO to Go Public.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. “ We need to learn from doing, by trial-and-error. You need some guidelines to make decisions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Questions I ask Tony DiSilvestro: [00:45] How did you get to this incredible stage in your entrepreneurship career? [01:11] 04:20] How do you monitor business scaling as well as technological advancements in your industry? [04:20] 04:20] How do you monitor business scaling as well as technological advancements in your industry? [06:32]

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Did you just start a company but are concerned about how you are doing things? Let’s talk about some of the most common mistakes and how to avoid them, using the words from the founders of Envato , Dribbble , Freshbooks , 6Wunderkinder , Treehouse , Backblaze , Simple , Shapeways , and Statamic. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Clay Hebert.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

In this article, I’ll outline how to create an agency content strategy that fuels your business development efforts and generates the optimal kind of organic traffic. This is great if you’re creating success stories, but less so if you’re writing about high-level, tactical fluff. It involves putting in the work.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

There’s a building. Does that make the building a restaurant? Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. In a back room, a guy peels potatoes. Out front, two people sit at a table. By the door, a person answers a phone. Would it become one if the guy peeled potatoes and oranges? You have a website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

We also talked about why he took a very public stance on the role of corporate leadership in social issues, and how it relates to fulfilling Coinbase's mission. A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We just turned on the rental car radio as we entered campus and heard the mid day BBC news – the space shuttle Challenger had just exploded. Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

He is also the founder of PodPros.com, a software company focused specifically on the podcasting industry. Alex and his team have created popular services like PodMatch, a service that matches podcast guests and hosts together for interviews, and PodcastSOP, a project management tool that helps podcasters keep up with their episode releases.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Gathering your team to plot out your next marketing campaign can seem daunting, especially for a new business. If you aren’t strategic and thoughtful about how you spend your money, you’re more likely to waste your money on campaigns and tactics that don’t work. . Lack of a marketing plan. But it shouldn’t be just any old plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to do that, they decided three things were crucial: teaching people to code, creating a sense of place around the tech industry, and proving it's possible to build and ship world-class software from places like Fresno. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Here’s how to increase the chances of success with cold email. Here’s how to increase the chances of success with cold email. Cold emails are unsolicited emails sent to previously uncontacted recipients. The term has a bad reputation. To many, cold emails are synonymous with spam and a nuisance—one reason why U.S. workers spend 3.2

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 26, 2011

That’s old news. Stocking is the new rage. Good tips from @jasonfried in @Inc about managing conflict & innovation on small teams - [link]. Don’t build Swiss Army Knives – Find features that add value - [link]. Don’t build Swiss Army Knives – Find features that add value - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your competition, and a brief description of how you differ from them.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” ― Robert L. It takes guts and gumption to leave behind the familiar and secure 9 to 5 job, start something new from scratch, and be completely accountable for its fate. So, how does an entrepreneur beat the odds? Of course not!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new drug compounds and treatments. Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

You may need to get smart about how you market effectively, given the common limitations experienced by nearly all small businesses. The good news is that you don’t have to do this alone. How to Fight Back. Your small business may have a terrific product or service. That’s a sobering statistic. Not for long anyway.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you build products or services, then having empathy for your users is part of your job. Good news: If you build products or services, then we have empathy for you. The question is, "How do I get people at my company to understand that what I do is important? Often, a good way to do this is with video.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Then he realized that somebody was him.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

He's also one of the people building HelpWithCovid.com, a clearinghouse for matching volunteers with all kinds of COVID relief and COVID-related projects. One of the defining features of the work people have stepped up to do in the last few months is just how much of it involves skills they actually don't have. And that includes him.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Join me as I dive into the many ways customers communicate with businesses of all sizes today and how implementing automation in your communication with customers is the key to not letting opportunities slip through the cracks. 4:00] How SMS is one of the drivers of change. 3:27] The holy grail of communication today. [4:00]

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Heres how it works. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. When something goes wrong, we tend to see it as a crisis and seek to blame.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Scaling Teams and the Fight Against Human Nature | Rand’s Blog – [link]. – [link].

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