Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Prior to that, he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and General Electric specializing in deliberative trading, private equity investment, and post merger integration.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. See Also Robot Paper: What It Takes to Start a Comic Book Business. Maternova’s recommended tools and books: Google AdWords. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

While they can not expect to be able to move with the speed and agility of a young company, big companies need to be sure they are always taking a fresh, outside-looking-in view of their organizations, and not simply resting on their laurels. His forthcoming book, “ Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami? Steven D.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Brand equity is the reason people choose Coca-Cola over Pepsi and Google over Bing. You’ll also notice marketing turning more towards the competition. Consistency.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

This book shares the lessons McKinsey has learned helping companies deliver successful digital and AI transformations into a detailed “how to” manual. 03:20] Do you see this book as something you can take to a client and say we’re going to walk each of the sections here? [04:28] So Rodney, welcome to the show.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. In the early days it’s more book keeping than accounting. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. To that I say baloney.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

At the end of the day they offer a very popular travel search to consumers and then serve as a conduit funneling that traffic to travel providers and travel agents who then complete bookings. That means that Kayak generates roughly $1.15M in revenue for each employee which puts it in the same league as Google and Apple (both >$1M/head).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We did our best to package as much content (including almsot a dozen books and ebooks) as well as tools and apps, into one low-priced magic offer. But I am even more excited to report that it will include a hardcover copy of my new Lean Startup book. But thats not all! And theres so much more.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Sweat equity or salary? There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? with 3 comments Tweet I regularly receive questions from readers about my experience working on the web, at Cheezburger, and so forth. Mark 15 Nov 10 at 3:11 pm [.] to help him develop the idea.

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Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

You can see this in a graph they provide of revenue as a percentage of bookings. For clarity, revenue is the portion of the transaction that Lyft keeps and bookings is the total amount of the ride charged to the consumer (excluding tips and tolls/fees). Analysis of Lyft S-1. billion in revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. I'm a big fan of Professor Bob Sutton, who wrote the book Scaling Excellence , and he's- Eric Ries : Amen to that. It's one of the books that I cherish. Let's go."

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We’re going to talk about her book today called How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive. Jennifer Brown: And I can say I have daughters, of course I get gender equity, but that’s not enough actually. Read the book. My guest today is Jennifer Brown.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

Public equity investors will measure it in the short term by the same metrics they judge other SaaS companies… multiples of revenue / EBITDA / bookings, growth rates, churn, sales efficiency, etc. To me, the question of whether Slack is a $20B market cap company or $50B or $100B+ in the long run is largely a function of ARPU and TAM.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 3 Points: You are pretty sure a LAMP stack is the pile of books on your coffee table, and Rails are what the Acela runs on. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity. Scissor.com is another agile option.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Somewhere in this period the word “blitzscaling” enters our lexicon, via Reid Hoffman’s class at Stanford and subsequent book. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? They already have great full-time programming jobs or are running booked freelancing gigs.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Clear Books. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning.

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