Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The survey found the top activities are: Increasing marketing efforts (41%). Staying nimble to meet the demand of new market needs and demands is crucial to maintaining the health of your business, whether there is a pandemic or not. Changing their hiring and recruiting processes (47%). Increasing products/services online (40%).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. what Market Type is your startup? Making sales calls with him taught me what a world class salesperson was like.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ).

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jack McGuinness. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jack McGuinness. Why sales and marketing are a long game, and how to know you’re on the right track.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

With the 2009 economic crash, entrepreneurs and startups flooded the market (for better or worse!). Technology has also dramatically shifted how we do business as virtual offices, telecommuting and “the cloud” are moving us towards a global market as the norm — not the exception. It’s never business as usual.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2020

seen at the end of the most recent recession in June 2009. It may be difficult for businesses to even think about potential hires at a time like this , but developing a strategy for retaining and attracting top talent will put them in the driver’s seat when things turn for the better. . down significantly from the ratio of 5.8

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We’d never hired anyone. I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. Glassdoor reports that since 2009, interview processes have grown from 3.3 days and data from DHI Hiring Indicators shows that the average job opening remained unfilled for 28.1 Winning teams – in sports, business and in all areas of life – have deep benches.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. While our industry is the educational sector, our target market is primarily high school students, undergrad and graduate students. Hi D, Gosh, this post was way back in late 2009. Musings on Life and the American Dream.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

Small Business 66

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

Marketing 53

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Using a combination of market data, math, and financial analysis, Professor Damodaran concluded that his best estimate of the value of Uber is $5.9 billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market. The first is TAM, and the second is Uber’s market share within that market. Total Available Market Analysis.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. Online Marketing Director, Knewton - New York, NY "I am 15. Candidates must be comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writer, online promotions strategist, social media junkie, and more.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

An increasing number of big companies are hiring small businesses to help them develop innovative products, processes and procedures. By 2009, it had run out of cash. Its fortunes turned around, however, after a consulting firm suggested that it market itself to large companies that were seeking help in innovating new products.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

#7- Sharing my deepest passion with the world Photo Credit: Anna Stella The most rewarding thing about being a small business owner is the chance to share my deepest passion for marketing with many other talented small business owners and marketing experts. Entrepreneurship allows me to be part of something I deeply believe in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. February 21, 2009 12:10 AM Harold Fowler said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see. On top of that overhead, by conflating the marketing release with the technical release, the amount of coordination overhead required to ship something is also dramatically increased.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Here are 15 ways to look making your image look super legitimate without spending a fortune on marketing. Also, these are things you should be doing with marketing, because it will only reinforce the message you are trying to send. This is the last of the obvious local marketing techniques. Don’t skimp on a logo. Keep it clean.

Small Business 167

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

More and more businesses are jumping on the Facebook marketing wagon. Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. The Facebook world is a different world than the Twitter world, the mobile market and the internet in general.

Australia 32

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

Software Review 62

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

More and more businesses are jumping on the Facebook marketing wagon. Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. The Facebook world is a different world than the Twitter world, the mobile market and the internet in general.

Australia 28

Australia Hiring Ruby New Zealand 28

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

More and more businesses are jumping on the Facebook marketing wagon. Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. The Facebook world is a different world than the Twitter world, the mobile market and the internet in general.

Australia 31

Australia Hiring Ruby New Zealand 31

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. The dot-com bubble had just popped and amazing talent was all over the market. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Here’s how. I was lucky enough to have worked for Yahoo!

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