Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Solution 4 : What we have been missing is an innovation pipeline focused on deployment not demos.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s the view for service teams: And for sales teams: The next section leans a little more on social proof. This interactive demo of the product’s features solves a common barrier to app user retention and prolonged engagement. In addition to the interactive demo content, they also offer a 14-day free trial.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content. But you first have to engage them. ?Think

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

My weekly newsletter on NYC events, with over 3300 subscribers, covers over a dozen events each week--and that's curated! Did you not understand your customer's pain point well enough in your lean startup process? Online communities provide lots of valuable information as well. Why isn't it growing its own yet?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

A demo video (if you’ve got a digital sell sheet). You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. See Also: A Curated List of Our Favorite 20 Marketing Tools. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow! Your sell sheet should include: Your product name. A benefit statement.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

We are simplifying the process of getting featured (for companies) and curate PR content (for reporters). Actually, this is what we were thinking we were doing before starting Techstars…;) If you’re not embarrassed by how naïve you were six months ago, you’re not learning fast enough.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, a two-person partnership probably doesn’t want to be cross-sold a demo for an enterprise-level company. Kajabi highlights the benefits of podcasts from the off, with a subject line that leans into three top priorities for businesses: leads , growth, and revenue. Podcasts on Kajabi: A new way to connect, grow, and earn”.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Getting Lean. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

50 Advanced HTML5 Demos to show It’s Power – [link]. Can User Experience Designers be Lean? Curating A Conference: Inside @TechCocktail Startup Mixology – [link]. Designing Hyperlinks: Tips and Best Practices – [link]. Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Build something then demo it to people. Curate great links for your ideal customers and share them 3 times per day. It’s what I use.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

This meant that we were on three-month deadline, hoping to show some traction by demo day. We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Which one’s better?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt.

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