Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc.,

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

It makes learning and skill acquisition effortless and worthwhile. They are particularly known for their expertise in Engineering and Architecture. Rotterdam is a place to be for lovers of amazing architectural designs with high rising building and great engineering. You can easily rent a room in Rotterdam at affordable prices.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

And they plan for a distributed fleet architecture, including 321 to 372 manned ships and 77 to 140 large, unmanned vehicles. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. The Navy has aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, and many types of aircraft.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%! That’s what a CEO’s CEO does.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Plan your website architecture. For more information about website architecture, check out this article from Matrix Marketing Group. Customer acquisition cost (CAC): Tow much it costs to acquire a new customer. This is called internal linking. This helps to keep your website organized and user-friendly. That’s great!

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The Next Web

MAY 10, 2014

Sean Jennings is the Senior Vice President, Solutions Architecture at Virtustream. In the last few years, mergers and acquisitions have made headlines as cloud vendors battle it out for a top spot in the relatively new and rapidly growing enterprise cloud market. Enterprises have become savvier about what.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If you’re talking about landscape architecture and you’re identified with it in social media, you have a plausible résumé. Michael Fertik, the founder of Reputation.com, said in an interview : “People, employers, and customers find you because of the internet. Let’s say that you are a landscape architect.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Many of the newer service marketplaces feel more like “movements” rather than “businesses,” and actually require very careful architecture of the end-to-end experience both online and offline, including areas such as culture and workflow. Myth #1: Online marketplaces have no offline component .

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . Review your site architecture and sitemap to make content accessible. This is achieved by flattening your website architecture.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2020

Data collection or acquisition is the first step in a Data Science project. Data Architecture. And data science is the ultimate weapon that allows businesses to use this data in unlimited creative ways and generating business value. Data Science Life Cycle. In any Data Science Project, there are 5 stages. So, how is data captured?

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Types of Acquisitions. For the purpose of this discussion, it is useful to think about technology acquisitions in 3 categories: Talent and/or Technology— when a company is acquired purely for its technology and or its people. When they were very early, they reportedly received multiple acquisition offers for more than $1B.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

In our initial blog post , we outlined our decision to step away from the universally accepted architecture of what an accelerator “should” look like. Our structured sessions will focus on fundraising, product, customer acquisition, as well as other important pre-seed topics. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Address acquisition products like Privy and MailMunch make it incredibly easy to tie your website, landing pages, and social campaigns directly to your email lists at your ESP. And an email address is essential to unlock lookalike audiences as an additional paid acquisition channel.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use a down period to nail down the core product features, get your architecture right and make sure your first customers see value in the product. You’re no longer in a growth and acquisition position, so KPIs based on revenue targets, etc., By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000. Accepting that is key. are moot.”.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

Instead, you’re likely spending your time thinking about new customer acquisition (increase in volume) or you are thinking about optimizing salary or production costs. Facts and market data is key — hunches and gut responses are rarely sufficient to improve your pricing architecture. Let’s start at the beginning.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. Currently they face enormous pressure to innovate faster, and are responding with Drupal 8, which will incorporate many new modern web architectures previously not part of the Drupal platform.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

One of the biggest benefits to this process was that it helped shift the focus of the Marines from nebulous systems-centric thinking—“The network architecture sucks”—to identifying specific pain points impeding their productivity on the job. Always Be Measuring. Big idea fairies live everywhere, sometimes for a very long time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

One of the biggest benefits to this process was that it helped shift the focus of the Marines from nebulous systems-centric thinking—“The network architecture sucks”—to identifying specific pain points impeding their productivity on the job. Always Be Measuring. Big idea fairies live everywhere, sometimes for a very long time.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Scott co-founded and ran IronPort, the leader in messaging security appliances, until their acquisition by Cisco for $830M. All of this data gets factored in every time you make a decision, prioritize a feature or revise the product strategy. Has Scott co-founded or been a very early member of the executive staff of a successful company?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

“An important aspect of our virtualization and cloud strategies is to help customers overcome the ‘VM stall’ challenges they encounter as they rollout virtualization and progress to a dynamic, cloud-based data center architecture. Tags: Enterprise acquisition Hyperformix M&A.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Since Nicira only recently shipped its first production ready systems, this acquisition may stun observers. As current networking architectures migrate to cloud architectures, VMware has the opportunity to eat a good portion of the $37B data networking market. In that light, $1.26B is a great price.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Requirement writers and acquisition folks look at systems integration across the battlefield system, while contracting officers, yet another segment, will count beans , measure the degree of competition and assess the quality of market research involved. What architecture components can they innovate on and what can’t they?).

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2010

Caringo’s CAStor object based software scales from terabytes to petabytes using off-the-shelf, commodity server hardware from providers such as IBM, Dell and HP, and lowers cost of ownership from acquisition through operations.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. It is an architecture and infrastructure — for lack of a cleaner term, call it a platform as a service, a DevSecOps or AI/Ops environment. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. We started with a cross-functional team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

If you look, they didn’t say: “ We built a bulletproof, scalable, cross-platform cloud storage architecture to make file sharing easy. No other acquisition channel in their company was able to get those results. ” (it hurts my eyes just to read that). How to Optimize Your Benefits.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture facilitated this development.”. All sign show that if things go well in the next three years with this current agreement, NVIDIA’s strategic investment might be converting into a deeper relationship, potentially an acquisition.

Architecture 68

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. The information architecture on most website is terrible and the reason is that company employees create it for themselves. There are so many ideas. Problem?

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

The key elements of technical SEO include: Crawling Indexing Rendering Site architecture. Website architectures. Flat website architectures where web pages are clearly linked to each other helps avoid this outcome: . Either way, to get technical SEO right, prioritize a well-rounded understanding of the basics. Structured data.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But specifically do you mean design, information architecture, user registration, etc.? In a future post, I’d love for you to elaborate more on this sentence: “Especially with a completely un-optimized sales website, which is the easiest kind to improve.&# What exactly does un-optimized mean? 2 Rob on 12.09.09

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don’t identify until after the acquisition. By the way, to mitigate this problem, there's already a discipline called “Information Architecture&#.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. You cannot use freemium strategies without this type of user experience (and freemium is the first fundamental change to the cost of customer acquisition). So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You have lots of sign ups, you’ve smashed your acquisition targets and the first slide of your pitch deck looks great! Business architecture pivot. There are two types of business architectures: High Volume, Low Margin which is a volume-based business and High Margin, Low Volume which is a complex business model.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 11, 2005

Like Nick Denton and David Galbraith , I can’t comment on the acquisition. Whatever happens, the architecture of online publishing is changing and with it, the entire architecture of search – pinged instead of crawled. That is a very big deal for Google.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These students are typically attracted to Internet and technology start-ups, given that these share favourable industry characteristics such as significant addressable markets, low barriers to entry, modest initial capital requirements and relatively low costs of customer acquisition. These entrepreneurs soon find out it is not.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Startups on Air – Startup founders, CEOs, and CTOs dive into their companies’ histories, products, and technical architecture.

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