Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keep teaching!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2020

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic and passionate group, who normally expect their idea to go viral soon, and success to follow shortly thereafter.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

That was probably one step further away from the Silicon Valley ethos than even Shark Tank! Viral Adoption / Group Use Cases Jamie didn’t want to stop at a single household. He was dogmatic. He was self-assured. He was right. See bullet point 1. Next Jamie told me he planned to sell products on QVC. Jamie’s logic was clear?—?millions

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

John Doerr of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist’s calls it the “next wave of the web.” User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. Users can share UGC / UCC via social media platforms, forums, comments, reviews, and open-source sites like Wikipedia. Social media-fuelled the rise of the UGC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Now what could go wrong with Silicon Valley – [link]. Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley – [link]. Marketing the Viral Effect and Not-for-Profit Gold – [link]. How Y Combinator Started – [link]. Name dropping!

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2014, a recruitment platform went viral by emailing a user’s Facebook friends after a sign-up. They have their use case, but are points of comparison for other people to evaluate you,” Lloyd Tabb, founder and CTO of Looker, says. Don’t focus on them internally. Tracking clarity metrics builds great businesses.” “In

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. “Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content – [link]. Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money?

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no money. A quantum leap in virality technology.”

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m co-hosting an event in 2 weeks with an old friend and colleague of mine from Silicon Valley named Adam Nash. Adam has spoken about growth and virality on numerous occasions, but this is the first time he’s speaking on the topic in Boston. Event: Growth Lessons from Silicon Valley. Time: 6:00PM.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Founder Institute is the brain child of Adeo Ressi , a super passionate and successful serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, probably best known for founding TheFunded.com.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers. Growth hacking” or the mentality of “try every viral trick, every channel as quickly as possible in order to get ahead in the land grab” is a hot topic. Myth #4: It’s all about the technology, not the service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. It’s often hard to tell stories about change—audiences grow wary or defensive—but Margolis helps leaders in Silicon Valley and other hotbeds of innovation make that change feel exciting and achievable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley. So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4 billion video views / months 55% are international). Set design.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nearly two years since CA governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act which was designed to close the wage gap, women in Silicon Valley still report that their multi-billion dollar tech giant employers are still paying them less than their male counterparts for equal work (Larson).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Making user adoption incredibly simple and shortening the time to a light going off in the user’s head that they see the value is critical in driving viral adoption. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

One Startup’s Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush | WIRED – crowdspring.co/1fmuIOO. Interesting Facebook post on the viral potential of rumors … The strange truth about fiction – crowdspring.co/1rJBrCv. Interesting trend at VC firms … design partners | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1k67wjJ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. The VC Market: An Adaptive System – [link]. Steve Jobs’s Strategy?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Total raised: $29.5mm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Going Viral on Pinterest: Driving Big Traffic and Making Pinterest a Real Marketing Solution – [link]. How Chicago Is Beating Silicon Valley At The Patent Game – [link]. Will CPE (Cost Per Engagement) advertising ever take off? – [link]. I lost interest in Pinterest. – [link]. – [link].

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. viral video. viral videos. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook. or Twitter. AlanBologlu1.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. High virality is almost always the product of early and deliberate product design decisions. Topics: Business , Silicon Valley , Starting Your Startup , Startups , Tech , vc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

It could also work well with a viral app (e.g. photo editors for Instagram) although you may find that the hype tends to pass quickly even for the most popular apps that went super viral. Steve Blank promotes this framework and it has been used by a lot of startups in the Silicon Valley. Is it virality?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki. Similarly, Dropbox’s referral program might have fallen flat if people had to personally pester their friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This reality has fostered a popular startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Engine of growth pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This reality has fostered a popular new startup approach which dramatically improves the efficiency and speed of these corrections, pioneered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Eric Ries. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Engine of growth pivot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Silicon Valley founders and executives routinely say, “well the banker said we have to do this, or we can’t do that.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks – [link]. 7 Social Media Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Going Viral - [link]. What Startup Life is Really Like; Entrepreneurs Share Candid Stories | Tech Cocktail - [link]. Does your startup require a miracle? Advertising Age - [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. Entrepreneurs are an optimistic and passionate group, who normally expect their idea to go viral soon, and success to follow shortly thereafter.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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