Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Smart companies are always looking to make their current products better – and there are many ways to do this. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service).

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. It was 2003.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. Here we see the relationship between brand marketing and product marketing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. Why should they risk investing in a startup that could get commoditised by either OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or open source technology?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. They bought distribution and engineering talent. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. uh, hello!

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Free product. I wasn’t feeling it. Folksonomy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Customer segmentation is essential , not just to identify where buyers pull back but also to “reveal products primarily purchased by people still willing to pay full price.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. The reason?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. Email/Calling productivity: Help improve first contact efficiency typically while prospecting. Create interest about your product/service. Doing product demos, sharing whitepapers, case studies.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. To support this growth, SailPoint also grew its headcount to 125 and doubled its office space in Austin, Texas. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Join our community. Forgot login ? Start-up | Mondays.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Forgot login ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

John Jantsch: So Teach and Grow Rich, for those that are not familiar with it, really was the kind of the idea of introducing courses, and teaching, and educating, and info products, I guess, which have been with us for years really. It eliminates my cost of distribution. John Jantsch: So what’s changed, Danny? All really good.”

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

I was asked by a respected colleague from the technology world this question: What is marketing? General simplified thought: The development, distribution and promotion of products and services to suit a specific audience in order to achieve business objectives. Product – Solution. Price – Value equation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Transcript of Using Technology to Build Connections in the Real World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: I love technology. It’s not like technology’s a terrible thing. And everyone described technology as being a double edged sword. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And now I think it's definitely through technology, through, you know, a lot of advances in opportunities. And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

The same is true of educational technology developers. Many smaller development firms receive seed funding to develop technologies used by public and private schools across America. The use of venture capital for developing educational technologies is increasing rapidly. This figure was triple the total investment made in 2007.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Transcript of How to Use Technology to Create Real-World Connections written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: I love technology. It’s not like technology’s a terrible thing. And everyone described technology as being a double edged sword. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Technology moves to the realms of knowledge, insight, and judgment. The opportunities of new technology and analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. On the enterprise side, I know every buyer of technology in this industry. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). Most of the technology we now have in the digital space wasn’t here 15 years ago. Nor does most of the technology of the future already exist).

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Technology moves to the realms of knowledge, insight, and judgment. The opportunities of new technology and analytics.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

This key principle is one that many would-be change-makers – be they product managers or philanthropists – overlook. In the late 1980s, she began her career at Microsoft as a product manager and helped turn Word, Encarta, and Expedia into consumer mainstays. After all, great product managers are typically great user understanders.

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