Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Wistia has been around since 2008. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). billion videos per month. views per person).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. That leads to cashing many checks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Name (required). It was my body telling me I needed help, and I needed it fast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It shows the normal distribution of XS, S, L etc, but it also shows, how cool is this, the Model's size (S in this case), her height, bust, waist and hip size! by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! I love this. Nine dollars!

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