Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Reply steveblank , on September 22, 2010 at 2:40 pm Said: Colin, I’ve observed that when you’re a founding CEO delegating things you don’t understand is equivalent to taking the money you raised and going to Las Vegas. Keep ‘em coming. Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However after closely watching several hundred startups that have failed, I observed that a very large number of these had solved the product/market fit problem, but still failed because they had not found a way to acquire customers at a low enough cost. petercohen Excellent observations, David. LIAD new to this blog.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.]

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As you search: Customer Development observes that when you start your company, all you and your business plan have are hypotheses, not facts –and that the founders are the ones who need to get out of the building to turn these hypotheses into customer data. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

My observation was that they had the “Going to Trade Shows&# part down, they just needed to add the “Like it Matters.&# ———— T o: Marketing Department From: Steve Subject: Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters Setting Clear Trade Show Objectives There’s no use going to a show if you don’t know why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] Reply Hans , on June 15, 2010 at 4:40 pm Said: Excellent observation. However, the CEO as the “Rock Star&# always reminded me of why I fired any PR agency that was getting more press than the company it represented.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Filed under: Air Force , Secret History of Silicon Valley | Tagged: Steve Blank « Watch This Space SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type&# at Work » 14 Responses Michael F. Goes to show the importance of being able to observe and listen. Thanks John, wherever you are.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The next post describes what I have learned and observed in the following years about balancing my entrepreneurial drive with building a healthy relationship with my wife and kids. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But we were pretty good at getting people to tag photos with what were in them. People adding tags, descriptions, titles and comments turned out to be better sources of metadata for those photos, and that metadata could then be used in interesting ways. I appreciate your observations. Tags: startupcto. Post a comment }.

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scenario you want to fight hard to get an “upgrade&# to a partner and talk to your other board members about whether you can downgrade the offender to an observer (or kick them off the board all together) if you’re stuck with a junior person. That means your board member (i.e. Bookmark the permalink.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Reply Asim Jalis permalink Interesting observations. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. It almost seems like a platform both locks you in and yet it also helps you with the technology and the user base. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

But over the years I realized his comment was actually an astute observation about the mental mindset of an entrepreneur, and therein lies the purpose of this post. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] I wore it as a badge of honor. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? As Craig Sullivan put it : Craig Sullivan: “My experience in observing and fixing things — these patterns do make me a better diagnostician but they don’t function as truths — they guide and inform my work but they don’t provide guarantees.”. How to Archive Past Tests? How Long to A/B Test? Instrument.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The observation sounds strange. It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Th.Khangs said. However, this is not the case. Need some isight into this if you have any information.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

As I dug around, I was stunned to discover that I was hardly the first one to figure this out: my observations have been common knowledge among industrial engineers for almost a century. Observe that the height of the curve P represents worker productivity (output per unit time at a given number of hours worked per day).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Second, as one of my friends observed, I talked to about 7 people (both acquaintances and friends) whose judgment I trusted. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. Company : IonLab.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

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.). Fluffy Logic » Blog Archive » I knew rails couldn’t be trusted… -. Have a plan for responding to security incidents.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Your observations are life lessons hard earned. link] Categories: Random Startup Articles Tags: Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thinking he was impressed with my mastery of the subject as well as my brilliant observation, I repeated myself and embellished my initial observation with all the additional reasons why I thought our customers would want this feature. Silence descended across the conference table. The CEO turned to me and asked “What did you say?”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

If you dig into the archives of this blog, you won’t find any articles specifically about how to write a good headline. Once you have your head switched over to “ meta-thinking &# (what is going on behind what you are observing) you start to ask yourself why things work or result in certain outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

My two courses cover much of this ( Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind ), however the answers are also buried in the archives of the blog you are reading now, and countless other blogs and internet marketing products and resources out there. Most of these questions can be answered through research. Yaro Starak. Eliciting Clarity.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

My two courses cover much of this ( Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind ), however the answers are also buried in the archives of the blog you are reading now, and countless other blogs and internet marketing products and resources out there. Most of these questions can be answered through research. Yaro Starak. Eliciting Clarity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Ive observed successful companies that use PHP, and some that used Ruby on Rails, and some that used Django (Python), and some that used ASP.net and. the list goes on).

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