Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? Think YouTube meets Netflix).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Personal protective equipment (PPE) are now being routinely used to ensure health and safety, virtual shopping is at an all-time high due to qurantine and lockdown, and physical interactions have been limited to mobile and online platforms. Mobile Devices : Shopping and paying bills online are more convenient using mobile devices.

Demand 173

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

In particular, we think the post-COVID world will see a permanent shift in the way people shop for groceries, personal goods, and other essentials; the retailers that provide a tech-enabled, multi-channel approach will gain a larger share. Post COVID-19 Behavior.

America 222

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

This accentuates the need for talents in the hospitality industry to harness the power of digital marketing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in preparation for the Hospitality 4.0 Intermediation and re-intermediation of tourism channel partners such as Airbnb can happen too. How would this help cross-industry?

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Singapore Artificial Inteligence Myanmar 165

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. It’s worth a quick read.

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SEM Viral Marketing Widget 379

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

A better strategy is to immerse prospective candidates in unusual settings to learn the most about their critical-thinking ability, technological savvy, and interpersonal skills. Give them a real-time problem to tackle if you want to put their technological talents to the test. Create precise candidate profiles and job descriptions.

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Hiring Developer Social Media Mobile 84

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. Tech investing is risky.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 287

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. Mobile analysts say that fewer than one in three users are likely to grant permission, while 96% of U.S. User privacy. Promotion PR is built on relationships.

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Update your technology to reach new customer segments. Today’s customers want to be mobile and location sensitive. Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. Include mobile-app support and new social-media channels.

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Customer Marketing Social Media Technical Review 120

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. This may work in stable markets and technologies. But today very few of those remain.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. This may work in stable markets and technologies. But today very few of those remain.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This is a tool where local businesses can advertise and consumers can find nearby businesses on mobile devices. In addition to the features like leaving reviews, finding directions, and making suggestions to edit the page, Google has recently added a feature where people can follow a Google My Business page. Photo courtesy of Google.

Marketing 70

Marketing Technical Review Software Review Retention 70

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The fact is people often suffer failures along the their path to success, and some businesses have to close, due to a lack of fund, sales decisions, or a lack of demand in the market. Entrepreneurs Create and Distribute Wealth. They explore and exploit various possibilities encouraging the active mobilization of funds and skills.

Developer 138

Developer Technical Review Equity Distribution 138

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

While it’s obviously a bit obscured on the back of the card, if you do have an app and the user hasn’t downloaded it yet, this is a nice little bonus channel for app installs, although it will probably be a small one. DIY Passes. Passes are two-sided — the front is your coupon/ticket/membership card/etc.,

Technical Review 135

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Mobile 135

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

While it’s obviously a bit obscured on the back of the card, if you do have an app and the user hasn’t downloaded it yet, this is a nice little bonus channel for app installs, although it will probably be a small one. DIY Passes. Passes are two-sided — the front is your coupon/ticket/membership card/etc.,

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Mobile 129

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. How to Hack the Investment World.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

You might also notice that people using the Firefox browser hardly convert at all when they see variation B: this could mean that there are some technical issues with the front-end code that make the treatments not work on Firefox. vs. mobile traffic. Jakub Linowski, GoodUI.org. So, we’ll ignore it. Pro tip: fixed beats broken.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

I’ve been podcasting a long time and it’s been pretty fun to see how this “channel” has evolved, particularly of late. The podcast or audio distribution format has definitely hit mainstream status. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

Audio 37

Audio Distribution Technical Review America 37

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

It's been just about two years since Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits released their self-published book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development (you can see my original review here ). Their goal is to share stories of Lean Startup applied in many industries and domains outside of tech startups.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The fact is people often suffer failures along the their path to success, and some businesses have to close, due to a lack of fund, sales decisions, or a lack of demand in the market. Entrepreneurs Create and Distribute Wealth. They explore and exploit various possibilities encouraging the active mobilization of funds and skills.

Developer 68

Developer Technical Review Equity Distribution 68

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. While there are certainly still products and services fetching big price tags with little to no revenue, the majority of companies in our year-end roundup are building products that will have an impact on how we think about technology.

Startup 60

Startup Cofounder San Francisco Software Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2020

And I’ve found over the years that this technology has many applications, from sending internal messages to remote folks on my team to interacting with clients and prospects. I also find it’s a helpful tool when you’re working with a distributed team. The greeting and message is personalized just for them.

Video 61

Video Audio Software Review Technical Review 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

There are three principal ways to develop a mobile solution: native code, hybrid mobile app, mobile Web app. Much of the debate is not about whether HTML5 is up to the task of powering a mobile application’s user experience. Smashing Library. Smashing Events. Categories: Coding. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques.

Software Review 94

Software Review HTML Web Mobile 94

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

17:34] One of the things I’m guessing was a visual or design decision is the way the graphics appear – is that a technology choice or a design choice? [18:51] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So, you know, we have a fully remote and distributed team. Send Brett an email. Like this show? Now we got it.

Audio 84

Audio Cofounder Jordan Video 84

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. The average mobile viewing rates are 40 minutes per session.) Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. YouTube shines when it comes to brand awareness.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Multi-Channel Attribution Analysis. ~ Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. Grab a Red Bull.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. To me, however, the entertainment, media, and gaming industry seems the most obvious industry to be disrupted by this technology, far beyond any other. However, the current hype around generative AI feels different.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Software Review Audio Technical Review 78

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Some metrics apply across all channels, like Awareness, Consideration and Purchase Intent. They are high in the hierarchy due to their positive impact on both the business and the company culture – thus delivering a soft and hard advantage. You see more digital metrics because digital is more measurable. No point in fooling yourself.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50