Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. Why we play Moneyball rather than Powerball - crowdspring.co/16aXflK.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. Video Recording.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The mobile phone has transformed billions of lives by providing previously unavailable connectivity, information and economic development (studies have linked a 10% increase in mobile penetration to a 1.2% Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales. During the late ’90s, Apple was struggling to meet sales goals and internal power struggles were greatly to blame. Crew, was once on the fritz with plummeting sales and branding issues.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. I see it all the time. Who else?).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Our model combined fair pricing and advocacy and direct development projects in each of the communities we bought from that would be managed by the communities themselves, thereby creating managerial capacity among the farmers and self-respect. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

I was a developer. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). And those that were successful at it by driving sales will earn for their efforts. Thanks to Clay Bradley, Skilled Gentlemen Podcast. #8 8 – Almost By Mistake.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

From that point, 3M began to transform more into the one we know today, developing the world’s first waterproof sandpaper, inventing masking tape, and Scotchgard. We haven’t seen any records for sale in their stores, but in 2005, The Gap paired up with Apple to give iTunes music downloads to customers who tried on a pair of Gap jeans.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned about revenue recognition.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

billion in annual revenue. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Airbnb now makes $2.5

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

For example, it’s entirely possible that a huge amount of your effort is spent on daily activities that aren’t contributing to building your brand, your sales/profits or accomplishing the other meaningful goals you’ve set for your business. If your website looks like it was designed in 1999, consider a redesign.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. We get to help people develop healthy lives and I get to fight and win on the best battlefield of all. We don’t just want to make a sale we want to make a difference by providing women with the tools to look their best and an avenue to help others and need.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world. that the leaders in your sales prospects attend and read, you won’t know if you are passionate about that industry. Develop a personal board of advisors about that topic. Go seek out the experts.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Large corporations such as Oracle, American Express, and Bank of America have also recognized the value of incorporating virtual assistance services in their business development strategies. Target those who used to work in sales or marketing, but be prepared to pay them well.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. annual GMV.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I work with them to develop and market profitable products and services that turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? If so, how can you develop an emotional thread that keeps people connected through each step of the buying process? It means that if emotion plays a role in sharing at the top of the funnel, it definitely plays a role at the point of sale further down the road.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. All were predicated on the state of the mobile phone industry in 1990.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. Adding Ad Revenue. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

Through hard work, commitment to customers and development of innovative products and services, Dennis, Cele and Barb built the business into one of the leading transmission, auto repair and accessory franchises in the country. Barb has led the company through a changing industry and has served as the President and CEO since 1999.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University. GE CHOOSES ISRAEL’S KINROT VENTURES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES. (Bravo AG).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The site owners need to maintain it skillfully enough to make sure that it ranks for the right search terms, create new blog content, and generate newsletters, but beyond that, there isn’t much other effort going into making sales. For example, taking out a mortgage to pay for a home that you’d rent out for monthly recurring revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” (As First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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