Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Silicon Valley, Boston). Disruptive solutions with new business models ( Horizon 3 ) require an a priori agreement on the criteria for creating a new business unit (revenue, profits, value-added, etc.). Who will lead this new effort?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? Zappos’ culture coach: how ‘squishy’ stuff like culture took us to a billion dollars in revenue | VentureBeat – [link]. Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? The Boston Globe – [link]. – [link]. Should you work for free?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. Amazon PostRank

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. ” – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

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. Being in software development for many years, I have worked on a wide range of projects. 65% of Arrington Coaching revenue is driven from online courses by December 2020.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Magical, really.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue).

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I wound up seeing Joel, but I never caught Paul when I lived in New Haven or Boston. Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company. He spoke about 21 trends you should bet on, and 5 you shouldn’t. Check out my book Like this post?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Not even if its generating revenue. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Heres hoping Steve will share those techniques with us someday.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Code that Fowler would be in awe of is useless if it does not generate revenue. Nonetheless, I want to talk about a dysfunction Ive seen in several startups: they are literally refactoring themselves to death. Heres a company I met with recently.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though. at 8:29 pm Rob – saw you at Business of Software last week in Boston, great talk!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). That may be attractive to some people.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

They cover topics like how to pivot your product and/or revenue model to find market fit, how to test a business idea before building the business, how to find a business model for your company, and how to build great companies. See you in Boston. #8 See you in Boston! #16 8 Rob on 08.05.10 15 Sanjay Singhal on 08.06.10

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. It's so old and so buggy that it's a real pain to ship 3D software on it. I have not read the previous post(s) on 5 why's (about to now though.), Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09 at 9:05 am We are a small development company which develops bespoke software. Costs range from $300-$1000 per year. It adds up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

INTRODUCTION This past fall, I attended the 20th annual Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference in Boston, one of the best business school conferences in the world and the largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) graduate business school students in the world. (I

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