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Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes

Steve Blank

Reading stories about the success of Facebook or blogs about the secrets of SEO might make you feel smarter, but it’s not going to make you more skilled. Building a company in all its complexity is computationally unsolvable. There’s no shortcut for getting your hands dirty.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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How Kevin O’Connor, and FindTheBest Got Lean

Steve Blank

What if you could think like an expert on any topic in a matter of minutes, instead of after hours of inefficient web browsing? We hoped to start acquiring customers mostly through responsible, focused SEO, where we would target a variety of high-value search terms and provide relevant, useful content to users.

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