Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. ER : How would you contrast the difference?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Differences in how people are reached, their expectations of the buying process, how their trust is earned, the price point they’ll accept, what distribution methods are most efficient, the messaging that attracts them -- all these factors (and more) may represent different sub-segments. Halbut are flatfish.

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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. Or blame my MarCom department who approved it. Worry about the sales results. What did we learn?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

As a bonus it meant the 1,400 aerial applicator companies could be a potential distribution channel partner. We’re now piloting our application with Tree Farmers in California and working with crop specialists at U.C. All of sudden what was an additional engineering and development effort now became a small, variable cost.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. Steve I have to tell you some bad news, I just showed our potential channel partners and customers a few completed pieces of the games we had. Tell them how great it’s going to be and see how many pre-orders we can get.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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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. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. This post was Twitted by altgate [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The product development model is so focused on building and shipping the product that it ignores the entire process of testing your basic hypothesis about your business model (customers, channel, pricing, etc.) customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) before you ship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And you can now negotiate for fees for cable and satellite operators to carry your channels. AOL and the like. And you have a franchise.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

— When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines. ” The majority of the time people preferred drinking our California and Napa wines over the Bordeaux or Burgundy ones. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France.

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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. Reply steveblank , on May 22, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said: Morteza, The comments about “ignore this post&# were meant that if your sales channel is the web you rarely go to trade shows.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

— When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines. ” The majority of the time people preferred drinking our California and Napa wines over the Bordeaux or Burgundy ones. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. I now think that was a mistake. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. In the old days (before the Internet), no technology products were free, because distribution costs made it impossible to offer anything without some commitment from the end customer. Meet the new boss. same as the old boss. The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again. The Game, Let Us Live.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. They had reduced the friction to connect by making anyone literally one click away — one click and you open a voice channel to them.They can hear you, but you can’t hear them until they unmute yourself.

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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.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Consumers are now starting to create their own factional brand stories about themselves – from their social feeds, to their Youtube channels – their reality is what they say it is. And now it is over.

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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. The person who can quickly re-channel that excitement to a different idea (one based on fact, not faith) will have much more success. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Each week, as the students learned something new about their particular project (what sales channel they should use, who the customer were, what type of manufacturing was appropriate, etc.) Who are the economic buyers? Market Type – Existing/Sustaining? New/Disruptive?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. The Nine Teams Present.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. The key differentiator being the product-level focus vs. the channel-level focus of traditional marketing effort. via TechCrunch). Here’s a sample growth process from Ryan Gum … Image Source.

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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. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. Take into account that some states have their own sweepstakes rules.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? I love governments!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

From a demographic perspective, LinkedIn is very different from other social media channels in that it has a very influential, affluent, and educated audience. On LinkedIn, it’s sometimes best for your stated location not to match your physical one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

California, Texas, Florida. Did you ever have a moment where the type of distribution for a Scheels, even though it felt really great, felt scary too? But I guess I was thinking the typical way a lot of people expand is they, they get a hit, they get a little reputation, they’ve got some distribution. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2020

” And I said, “Oh, I’m already familiar with John’s stuff, but he’s great and I’m glad you were able to connect in San Diego or in California for an event.” It’s the only place you can own your own distribution. ” And he says that much more eloquently and punchier as he always does.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

They have a YouTube channel where they provide valuable information, they have a Hagerty Driver’s Club that people are members of, they get all sorts of great benefits. I mean, that’s become a channel almost. And he’s a dentist in Southern California. Scott: Yeah, it has. He’s a dentist.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. Distribution. California. California. Tool: Radian6 (Salesforce) URL: Radian6.com Art and Designers. Auditing Services. Competitive Intelligence. Consultants. Content Licensing.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. Not just the online + offline part (though they all want multi-channel desperately), but the whole cart experience. Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com I really like the big boxes, big text.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Does the distribution match your goals? Why not start a YouTube channel with a series of how-to videos? So, if relevant for your business, try to rank for "california health insurance plans" or "california individual health plans" etc. Ready for the next step? Why not, : ), start a blog?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Roku Channel Store. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Pivotal Tracker â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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