Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Even though he isn’t couching it in the “Discovery/Validation&# language you can see that his metrics for success are radically different than one delivering a physical product.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation. Vertical bar/sidebar navigation is when navigation items are arranged in a single column, one on top of another. The vertical bar/sidebar navigation design pattern is seen all over the place, on virtually every kind of website. Common Characteristics of Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. based teachers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link]. How These Small-Time Brands Made It Big – [link]. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

To make the point about how different the Coremetrics approach was as one of the first Software as a Service (SaaS) companies back in 1999, I would show a demo of my eCommerce site, BodyMatrix, and have someone click around, looking at different products and putting some in their shopping cart. It is easier to do this than it may sound.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In 1999, Jakob called this “a bad design and an abuse of the tab metaphor”… Jakob Nielsen , Nielsen Norman Group : “I maintain that tabs would be better used for switching between alternative (but related) views than for navigating to unrelated locations. Album Art Collection. The navigation includes icons.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. 2 weeks in they had outsourced my job, which lead to an awkward conversation. Manager: “Sorry man we outsourced your job, I guess this was already in the works before I hired you.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. With Growthink, Lee has continued his deep involvement with film, digital media, content delivery protocols, gaming technologies and sports initiatives.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

People are used to 2 kinds of menus: horizontal and vertical. People don’t need to see a menu to know where the ‘contact’ link is at – by default they look for it as the last link in a horizontal menu or the bottom link in a vertical one. Don’t innovate here – familiar layouts work best.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). What is important to bear in mind is that in almost all legibility studies, reader preference or perceived legibility tends to be inconsistent with user performance ( Lund, 1999 ).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As an informal observation, it’s not uncommon to see different companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the 6 most important factors in building trust with an eCommerce company are : Brand. Navigation.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

One of my all-time favorite entrepreneurs, and a man who has had such a profound impact on our world, Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur who has created fortunes in a variety of industries and verticals. He was only 27 at this point! Shortly after this, he founded Paypal which ended up being sold to eBay for $1.5 billion dollars.

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