Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Some form of these deception jammers would eventually find their way into most electronic warfare defense systems used in the Cold War; first in the U-2, A-12 and SR-71. tags: startup history) [.] The contractors were now dependent on Stanford.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. “Candidates”), I’d urge everyone to reconsider true consistency or reliability in terms of hiring-process results. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Given the need to cover R&D and G&A costs, the average gross margin on a deal needs to be at least $150k. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

I think if you look at the history of what became Twitter, Paypal, and others you’d see a form of an iteration loop without a formal methodology. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Order Here.

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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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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Tags: startupcto. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans. » Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans.

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2011

So by the time a website creator figures out what they want to say, they already have pretty designs, beautiful buttons, cool interactive charts with nifty forms that all tell half a story that is certainly not aligned. The last point I’d make on this topic is don’t assume you personally know how to write well.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Later on, way too late, we’d remind ourselves it’s the game stupid.) I’d like to see your insight into that, i.e. is this something we can grow into? Your only solution is adding some form of interactivity with the movies, though as you covered in this article, those types of games haven’t been very successful.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans. » Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. Ruby on Rails?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

We’re trying hard to take what is kind of a complex process and simplify it, so any thoughts/advice you can give us is much appreciated You can use the feedback form on OneEyeDeer or email me on kim [at] oneeyedeer (dot) com. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 10, 2009

Plus un tag était utilisé, plus il était écrit en gros, les tags plutôt négatifs étaient en rouge, les tags positifs en vert. Voici le mien pour aujourd’hui : steve-pavlina benjamin plage facebook blog manque-d-exercice graisse stress camping eduardo Que penses-tu des cogitoramas ? Ton outil Web est-il disponible ?

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

ProBlogReviews says: November 28, 2007 at 7:09 pm These are all great points, when I formed my business, my co-founder and myself (relatives) ended up in many heated arguments over what direction to take our company. Tags: startupcto. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

And they didn’t just create a great company they also spun off their technology into an open source framework ( Ruby on Rails ) and refined a new form of development termed “ Getting Real.&# Think about that for a minute. Jason is “famous&# for saying he’d never hire someone who didn’t use a Mac.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? No one can ever know for sure, but I’d love to get your thoughts. Meanwhile, sure, I’d love to work smarter instead of harder. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. For anyone faced with winding down a company, I’d highly recommend taking a while off before making any big decisions, and not just the two and a half weeks that I’d initially tried. Corporate America could learn from this.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? Here’s an example of a A/B/C/D test, and how much traffic each variation is allocated: An A/B/n test splits traffic equally among a control and multiple page variations. Next is mouse tracking analysis , which includes heat maps, scroll maps, click maps, form analytics, and user session replays.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I thought I’d explain that for the general community. It will probably be possible to eventually do this with an IMG tag, which means any webpage that can contain a user-supplied cat photo could ALSO contain a user-supplied remote code execution.). Nota bene : I’m not a professional security researcher. Thank you.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

OpenID, One Year Later We made a few key technology bets when we created Stack Overflow: OpenID Markdown ASP.NET MVC I covered Markdown, One Year Later in an earlier post, and now I’d like to turn my attention to the first item in the list: OpenID. There’s absolutely no way I’d put my banking credentials behind an OpenID.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

Testing is also done between more than two versions of a page (A/B/C/D testing), but often still called A/B testing. Now let’s start with setting up your test: 1) Form a clear hypothesis for your test. Forms – Their length, field types, text on the forms. The challenger page increased the size of the contact form.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Capital Requirements In my class students form teams and spend a semester building a detailed plan for a company. So I’d still rather refer to “industries&# and “markets&#. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. The next few posts will make this clear.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

2010 03 /07 CATEGORY Uncategorized TAGS dev shops development getting it built software startups tech themoreyouknow View Comments [link] Victor Wong I would say that if you have a strong development team and need contract developers who can work well remotely and under your project manager, then you can also bring in a development shop.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. If they did they’d all be billionaires because they could build out their own dynamite ideas at will!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" The ultimate form of engagement is when the company doesnt have to do anything explicit to make it happen. Good stuff.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. companies to form a unique partnership. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

but most of them apply in one form or another throughout the world. I guess I should be thankful that my company is hypothetical or I’d be screwed… #20 Bob Dobbs on 01.08.09 Please tell me more…I’d love to hear how you’ve done it. I’d also include logo design and graphic design.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Sans serif fonts survive reproduction and smearing because of their simple forms. Boyarski, D.,

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Apr 11, 2007 [.]

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Although I’m not in software, it is valuable when thinking about creating a sustainable form of income through a product. tags: startups) [.] #32 on 01.01.09

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

Make sure you have a small form for people to ask you questions ( Wufoo or Google Spreadsheet allow you to create forms you can embed for free). I added a form so that if they are interested they can leave me their email address and I can contact them and discuss more about the product. What problem does it solve?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

Make sure you have a small form for people to ask you questions ( Wufoo or Google Spreadsheet allow you to create forms you can embed for free). I added a form so that if they are interested they can leave me their email address and I can contact them and discuss more about the product. What problem does it solve?

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

of Prospects – these are folks that in some way have indicated they have an interest in your product/service by filling in a form, hitting a sufficient number of pages on your site, attending an event, speaking to someone at your company at a show, etc. # Tags: b2bmarketing startupcto. All Rights Reserved. Powered by Wordpress.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? A year or so ago, I noticed a marketing campaign by a company that involved offering bloggers a “plant a tree&# widget for their site – if you placed the banner on your site, they’d plant a tree. the tip from D. Post bookmarked and forwarded to a few friends.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Remember that story I told about the three business school students telling me about their tech startup, leaving me to wonder who’d actually build the product? How’d I meet Elaine and Sandy? I finally found my ticket in the form of admission to business school in the valley. Take advantage of it! Find your ticket.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Dave Hanna Off topic- luv’d your op ed on Grace Hopper- tough for women to be tech- women add so much to the linear dimension of tech- thanks so much and please keep reminding us. Printed from: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply David Binetti , on October 12, 2009 at 9:59 am Said: Wow, I’m totally surprised by the number of people who are taking issue with the form of the CEO’s conduct. Smart, confident people need this level of butt-kicking to get them to listen and understand.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Suffering from onemanship wont do good in this case, should we form a committee or a group before hiring someone from odesk or what?? Fire-dean (2010-06-20) # Thanks D! D Seth Immell (2010-06-21) # Hi, I work at a successful consulting firm. Brian D (2010-06-22) # thanks. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!

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