Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example. Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups. Go read both of his posts on Discovery and Validation for web startups.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

When your business, book or podcast needs additional support, sponsorship can make a huge difference. Regardless of whether you’re seeking sponsorship for a product, event, book, or podcast, the overarching aim of attracting corporate sponsors remains the same: you need sponsors that engage your audience. What do they dislike?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 The waterfall of positive feeling stems from the fact that this book was very hard to write. I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

As John and I were talking, he slid his book, Where The Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy , across the table to me. It’s a great book that every policy maker in government at any level should read. The post Book: Where The Jobs Are appeared first on Feld Thoughts. They follow.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Like many of you I read the Is Web Summit a Scam article making the rounds this week. I have attended Web Summits three times – it is not a scam. I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. That’s why so many people come to DreamForce and so many come to Web Summit.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

If you could only access a single URL on the web what would it be? Reviewing this list periodically (as well as reading Robert Cialdini’s Influence , one of my favorite books) always makes me slap my forehead at the ways we are beautifully and stupidly human. Cognitive Biases Shape Us Beautifully And Tragically. Anchoring Bias ?

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’m a fan of David Walton and his near-term sci-fi books. In 2015, I read a few of his books, wrote a post titled Awesome Near Term Sci-Fi – David Walton , and promptly forgot about him. Mr. Feld: Since you’ve enjoyed my books in the past (e.g. The post Book: Three Laws Lethal appeared first on Brad Feld.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2023

I found some help in catching up via a classic book “ Sell Local, Think Global ,” by marketing message expert Olga Mizrahi. Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites. Modernize the user website experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Web Design. Sketching A New Mobile Web. The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. Progressive enhancement, mobile-first and responsive design can help lead us towards a more unified, future-friendly Web. If our clients are to embrace the potential of the mobile Web, then we need to get them thinking beyond desktops and apps.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2014

On day three, when I’m not looking at email, anything on the web, or checking my phone, I just breathe deeply and say “wow I needed this vacation.” As with most of my vacations, I read about a book a day. Red Bang : I wanted to love this book. Dynamite book – I’m glad I put the time in.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Steve Case’s new book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , is out. If you are interested in understanding how high-tech entrepreneurship has evolved from a primarily coastal phenomenon to one that covers the entire US in the past decade, grab this book now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see this subject, and related strategy decisions, covered well in a recent book, “ Brand Vision ,” by Jim Everhart. Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

In the classic book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2020

I found some help in catching up via a classic book “ Sell Local, Think Global ,” by marketing message expert Olga Mizrahi. Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites. Modernize the user website experience.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2020

Besides content, you can sell something on your blog; it could be products, sponsored products, e-books, and much more. Publish Your Book on Amazon. Do you want to write a book? With Amazon, you can easily self-publish a book and can earn from it. Web Development. But don’t know where to start?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 12, 2014

I read a lot – somewhere between 50 and 100 books a year. I prefer long form (books) to medium form (articles, blog posts), although I read plenty of that as well. I’m always curious what my friends are reading and often grab books they recommend. Books book design fred wilson product randy hunt'

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability. These guidelines have been crafted from usability testing, field testing, website tracking, eye tracking, Web analytics and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users. Why Web Form Usability Is Important. The Six Components Of Web Forms. Inspiration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A complete list of book tour stops for the first leg of my journey is below. Many of you who pre-ordered the book -especially those of you on Kindle- have already received your copy. The Amazon.com reviews page for the book has just opened to the general public (up until now it's been limited to Amazon Vine reviewers).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

This work is hard, and while there are endless short-form posts about this on the web, there are few in-depth, comprehensive resources to help business builders figure this out. The book is a play-by-play series of frameworks that any company can use to become data and metrics-driven.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

Self-Publish a Book on Amazon. Publishing a book is so troublesome because of all those edits, formats, marketing, etc. But if you publish a book on Amazon, then you have a higher chance of gaining profit. By validating your idea before you write the book, you’ll improve the odds of people willing to buy your book.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2011

With easy-to-use, off-the-shelf publishing software, even producing a good looking book isn’t that difficult. Books are being written and published at the highest rate in history. It’s selling books that is the problem. Most books published today don’t make money at all. Very simply, you must go beyond the book.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Productivity gains Agents that act as systems of action – agents that can complete common consumer tasks like booking a restaurant or finding and sending a gift to a friend. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Web Development. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. Try the book Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane. The web app Beanstalk does git repository hosting and deployment. Performance is often this thing web teams do "later on." Steve Souders books and blog are fantastic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. Your book need not be a best-seller, and it probably won’t make you any money directly, but it’s the best business card you could ever imagine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Guy Kawasaki, in his classic book “ Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions ” provides some in-depth recommendations on the “how to” of pull technology. Here are some of his recommendations for web sites and blogs that I particularly recommend to entrepreneurs and startups: Provide good content.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Books, newspapers, magazine, blogs, comment threads. Put the written word in front of me, whether on a sheet of paper bound into a book or magazine, or as pixels on a glowing screen and I will consume it. For me, I am lucky if I can fit in a book or two during the annual slowdown that we at crowdSPRING know as “August.”

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Why would courier service apps always be in high demand?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship , small business , leadership, social media , marketing, and more! Here are the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week about graphic design and web design.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. As Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs, we constantly are building web properties or creating content. WebDesignerWall.com : Blog for Web Designers What?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to Eric Siegel in the updated version of his classic book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Collaborative Design in Practice In 2010, I was designing a dashboard for a web app targeted at TheLadders’ recruiter and employer audience. Order the book. It’s much easier to pivot from a failed approach if you haven’t spent too much time laboriously documenting and detailing that approach. You want to make compliance easy!

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

That's not including others I actively seek out around the web. Remember I am the creator of the 10/90 rule of investment in web analytics. Add a piece of javascript to your web page (do a View Source on this page to see it), and it will tell you how often your content is being copied. Simple right? First Some Context.

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