Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Partnerships: Relationships with larger firms not only confer legitimacy to your business; they can be an important source of intellectual property, distribution channels, and marketing clout. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Tags: scorecard venture value Akira Hirai business valuation. His website is [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. Think of individuals like McClure, Paul Graham and George Zachary as market analysts. startupcto

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. For example, tagging content to buyer personas allows you to see what personas you’re ignoring.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? You can unsubscribe at anytime and we promise not to spam or distribute your information. Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. GeekWire Partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] There is no certainty about a startup on day-one. Put faith in facts!

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Even if you have to pay them, it’s worth it given the number of qualified attendees that will probably show up. If someone were trying to hire me, hold a meet up on Hadoop.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Dear Oracle, Get a Clue » Linux News » Other » everbeta.com on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Eric Barroca on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about. What didn’t? Go to trade shows like it matters.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Dear Oracle, Get a Clue » Linux News » Other » everbeta.com on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Eric Barroca on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

Silicon Valley 260

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand? Do you know how many units they are selling?

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and buildsthe MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel® AppUpSM Center. More articles & blogs » POPULAR TAGS javascript google api apis node.js startupcto

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

There are some ways you can look to address the problem: If you are currently using a field sales organization that sells direct, look at whether it is possible to sign up OEM deals with strategic partners to leverage their customer base and distribution power. Tags: startup metrics startupcto. LIAD new to this blog.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

PR is much different from paid media (such as online advertising) where you have control over the messages you distribute. News stories get archived, shared and remembered for long, so the impact on sales by being featured in a TV segment is much higher than being featured in advertisements during commercial breaks.

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Altgate

JANUARY 16, 2011

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Technology and tagged advertising , click fraud , CPC , Google. link] Warren Guy Further, newspaper publishers frequently engage in “dumping&# to artificially inflate distribution numbers: [link] [link] Who knows what goes on in other sectors? Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

It doesn’t tell you what that tag really means, and, it doesn’t drive users to an action. The 140 characters on Twitter are good for driving engagement and getting distribution, but they don’t really create a lasting impression of you or your company. I’m using Tweet Nest to archive my tweets ). Blog : Twitter is ephemeral.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Tags: startupcto. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. Unfortunately, while I had gone through phases of video game addiction in my life, in no way could I be described as even a “moderate hard-core gamer,” which ruled me out as a domain expert. Make sure it is yours.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lowering/increasing the cost of engineering personnel doesn’t affect this model (although the trend over the last two decades has been to dramatically lower the cost of developing a software product: open source libraries, Moore’s Law, Internet distribution/SaaS are three big drivers).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 27, 2010

Yes you can make a million dollars without needing distribution (like through property or shares), but for those who do it with a business, they generally have a means to access lots of people. Tap significant sources of traffic/audience/customers. Most people I meet who are millionaires have access to large amounts of people. Yaro Starak.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Take the $800 billion dollars and distribute it to the states based on population then leave it to the states to decide what to do with their share. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged economist , experiment , policy , stimulus. The latter like to research what happens. Run an experiment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You’ll get outstanding email service with world-class email security, spam filtering and archiving, group calendar capability, group document, spreadsheet and presentation capability, and although we don’t use this feature – the opportunity to create an intranet for your company. Hardware devices for Check-ins and business reviews.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. Perhaps you are saying their costs of distribution aren’t zero, as I allege. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] We understood none of this.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. For those that don’t mind reruns, I’ll publish the archive 1–2 weeks later, when I get around to uploading the video to the cloud, tagging and providing links. I’m getting 7,000 views per video in less than 24 hours and that’s only bound to go up.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). 100 conversions is possible in only the most remote cases and with an incredibly high delta in behavior, but only if other requirements like behavior over time, consistency, and normal distribution take place.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F. I now think that was a mistake.

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