Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Every element on the page needs to be tuned to help convert visits into sales. The current returns process has too many touchpoints where shrinkage can happen.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. CROs or Payers may ultimately be a resource, a partner or a revenue source, but until you get them signed up they’re first a customer. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Face-to-face engagement is important, especially at vital points in the sales cycle or while creating relationships. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #7- 16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. The Agile Board. Board Meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. I don’t believe that one exists. In summary.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It's important to keep business agile. One of the biggest problems we encounter was staying financially stable, especially when revenue was barely coming in. organization.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. What’s next?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a logical thing to do… when we started LinkedIn, my mentor Reid Hoffman instilled a mantra of Growth –> Usage –> Revenue which still holds for many consumer companies. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. But B2B startups need to take a different tack.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

Their root lies in a small ice-cream manufacturing and sale unit which was established back in 1988. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle. This opportunity has a short sale cycle with quick payments. The sale cycle with Govt. Step 3: Agile Focus Dartboard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. The Week 6 Lecture: Revenue Model. Week 6 of the class.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. The campaign serves not only as a mean to raise capital, but also as a strong market validation and as an excellent sales channel. finalized before the crowdfunding campaign.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Agile Development. We practice agile development principles, and having the constant feedback between business and development that agile suggests is key to successful integration of the two teams. Tech teams also need to understand that without business development, there is no revenue to pay their salaries.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Your sales team has data in their CRM. Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. Plus, you’ll want to measure the amount of additional revenue generated from the test. Dependencies.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Their campaigns not only grab people’s attention but also convert leads to sales – crucial components in supporting revenue-generation efforts of a startup. Stay Flexible While Maintaining Order Startup culture values agility and adaptability.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

Sales Rules. Don’t let anyone undersell the importance of a strong sales leader and team members. The common belief has always been that a corporate sales leader with proven experience will take you to the promise land. By the time you realize it’s a bad fit, you’ve lost months of potential revenue stream development.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Businesses have a rising demand for singular, agile, integrated solutions. Whether you’re offering B2C or B2B SaaS, you need to make sure you’re employing the right sales strategies to drive revenue and get your offering into the hands of people and organizations who need it. . Offer Free Trials and Demos.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

However, it’s not a good sign if the majority are bad reviews—this indicates a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed immediately or it will affect your sales. Plan the quiet times of the season when revenue drops. For a startup, it’s critical to work on customer retention to ensure repeat revenue. Save for a rainy day.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As for the challenge, the firm already had the know-how for developing the drone, and estimated both the implementation obstacles and the time to revenues as ‘mid’, taking into account the distribution requirements and the length of a sale cycle. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. Short-circuiting that process is a major “foul” that often leads to premature business models and suboptimal sales results.). But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Both companies generate direct revenue from their platform in the form of a revenue share / platform tax (typically 30%) on software and digital goods sold through the respective platforms. Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. What are your experiences with meeting dinosaurs on the sales floor?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

.&# 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. Three to six months after first customer ship, if Sales starts missing its numbers, the board gets concerned. The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

We always spend time drilling into the numbers, beyond the top-line revenue and expenses to better understand what the drivers were behind our performance. While financial reports can be reviewed outside of a meeting, reviewing them together as a team encourages questions and discussion around our revenue and spending.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. Continuous Delivery/Deployment – The Customer View.

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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. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market. After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. Your brand might need to shape its strategy to be relevant depending on where you’re marketing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 27, 2020

This perennial omnichannel cycle is not only useful for the customers but continues to generate more revenue. A business must be agile enough to incorporate both short-term & long-term changes, which can be achieved through year-round continuous surveys for real-time customer information. Live Chats.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

But entrepreneurs face other concerns that compete with this growth focus, including hiring, maintaining current revenue sources and distinguishing themselves from the competition. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. Hell or high water.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 28, 2023

They will be able to create goods and services that are more pertinent to consumers and, as a result, increase sales and profitability. Accepting change in company development can have many advantages, including better customer satisfaction, higher revenue, and improved brand perception. However, change can be challenging.

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