Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Every large company, whether it can articulate it or not, is executing a proven business model (s).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. Tesla Tesla invented a successful business model for bringing compelling electric cars to the market. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Innovation must be applied to your business model, your processes, as well as your product offering. You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Seek out the best practices in the industry, and improve them for your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post! You do a great job articulating. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Web startups are at real disadvantage here as founders may confuse web metrics, A/B testing and on-line surveys as the entirety of first-hand knowledge – for most web business models they are not. In fact, this mistake can be a “going out of business” strategy. Metrics tell you that something is happening. Birds-eye view”.

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Metrics Customer Customer Development Lean 240

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. For this reason you should find out as quickly as possible if the product is indeed offering real value to your customers by looking at real data.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Andrew : Right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. The more you know about your customers and market, the more effectively you can run your business.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There are great starting points, but there is an assumption that based on your expertise and business knowledge that you’ll be able to personalize these. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Do not talk about disruptive business models; the ones who disrupt don’t talk about it. They are too busy disrupting. Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. You can’t see it.)

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. small business CRM. 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.

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