Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. And the organization to implement all this was not through traditional sales, marketing and business development groups on day one. Instead the founders need to lead a customer development team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

The Power Of Play In Business Culture written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Kristi Herold In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Kristi Herold. 00:52): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Like this show?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

As a relatively small business looking to compete in a highly saturated market, it was important for us to ensure that our business name and website URL matched to provide potential clients with the best possible chance to find us. It took a lot of creative meetings between my co-founder and I before we came up with meaningful names.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Jason: So another thing is that whatever you decide to do, maybe it’s a bridge, it sounds like maybe you need to do a little more market research. Do that make some since?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., » More. Loading… Business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from DJ Waldow – Enjoy! Without a list of email addresses in your database, email marketing can be quite challenging. Without a list of email addresses in your database, email marketing can be quite challenging. It’s quite simple. Does it work?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Markets. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. » More. Loading… New York. » More. » More. Loading… Business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force , building a scram system for a nuclear reactor , a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else. A recruiter found me, now in product marketing and wanted to introduce me to a hot startup making something called a workstation. Steve, you left off your education.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

I ended up at Michigan State because I got a scholarship…Once I got there, I was lost…unfocused…and had no idea of who I was and why I was in school. I dropped out of Michigan State University after the first semester. In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. It’s a testament to the fundamental importance of the browser that these invisible, but meaningful changes created major market share shifts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With recreational cannabis use legal in nine states (and soon a 10th, Michigan), the District of Columbia, and in Canada, the cannabis industry is steadily growing. There’s a huge opportunity for cannabis firms to more effectively market to women. Branding and marketing for medicinal cannabis users.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Finding a gap in the market can turn an idea into an amazing step for a potential business. Once he understood how well this device protected teeth, we discussed the possibility of bringing something like this to the sports market. Entrepreneurs are continuously discovering that if you find a place, you can create a company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

The 4 Commitments To Grow Your Reach Online written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Becky Robinson In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Becky Robinson. She is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence. Like this show? This is John Jantsch.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

At OfficeMax, when we had to move from mind to market and implement must-make changes, I didn’t have the luxury of time to build consensus and sway everyone over to my position on what would work and what wouldn’t. After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is MaryAnn Bekkedahl. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel. – Enjoy!

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. I’m starting to accept that Steve Jobs is gone.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2013

” “Do you trust – really trust – your prospective business partners and cofounders?” Instead, by first focusing on a market niche you can become truly great at addressing, your startup has the best shot at success.” His list of 20 includes these short gems: “Never confuse activity with progress.”

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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