Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. New Rules for China.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Beyond the possible loss of revenues, this early decision may be difficult to change, or even irreversible: it influences how you develop your technology going forward, raise money, write patents, recruit employees and pick a brand name. Each of these markets varies significantly in its business context and in its promise for growth.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2019

In the seventies they used an image of a stork and a baby for the introduction of Pampers in Japan. Great idea, one would think… Where it not for the fact that in Japan the stork has nothing to do with babies. Check if there’s market demand for your services. It happens to the best of us. Ask Proctor & Gamble.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

by Gemma Falconer, a member of the Demand Generation team at Citrix and GoToMeeting. Before Ford became one of the most significant names in the automobile industry, he worked for Edison at the Edison Illuminating Company between 1891 and 1898 as an engineer. When the famous and powerful join forces, monumental things can happen.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. New Rules for China.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner. It was right up my alley in terms of skill sets and interests.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. As we had noticed the strong demand from Chinese to buy properties in the West, we started a company called East-West Property.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Consider, as an example, the fact that low-context cultures like the United States of America tend to name all their streets and put up a lot of directional signs to tell civilians what to do. Keep Power Distance in Mind.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

There’s an increasing desire to solve real-world problems, and the demand is only going to grow as we see more use cases, funding and innovation within the industry. Canada, and Germany, speak three languages, and visit Japan and Korea often because of our business in Asia. Tell us about something you love. I love to travel.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

This is ahead of the USA, the UK and Japan. To give us just a little bit of belief the ‘fantastical statement’ above this about : Only a decade or so ago a printer was a guy name Tony in who had a little factory Ringwood. They thought we should be able to demand payment. They forgot about demand and supply.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

For example, on-demand graphic design service Manypixels ran a 40% discount at the beginning of the year on its subscriptions: This would directly impact the lifetime value of users signing up in the discount period by reducing the Average Revenue per Customer. The form keeps asking me about a company name while I’m a jobseeker.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Luiz Seabra at CosmeticNews , March 20, 2006: One of the wealthiest men in the world erected his business empire around sustainable cosmetics, addressing mounting consumer demands for environmentally-conscious products through his Natura brand; it eventually became Brazil’s first bath and beauty company to utilize a refill structure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Or, you might start to iterate the concept, each time testing it against the set of facts that youve been collecting about potential customers. Phases of product & company growth.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. During World War II the demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move to where most defense plants located. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

Tv with on demand movies will help on this flight as will power for the itouch. i am asked to say a few words – i say i am from america, we flew on a plane 15 hours to be here, my name is david, and i thank them for allowing us to visit. so it will be singapore and japan. so it will be singapore and japan.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points for each step. Skype name: olinkaru. The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points. by Dr. John Sullivan May 10, 2010, 12:16 am ET. Keith Halperin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. So far, this is all an academic exercise in naming - but I think it has an important real-world effect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. Alan mentions above what I believe is the critical learning element your team needs to gain insight into via the Minimum Viable Product, Compelling Product Offering or other named approach. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Thanks Eric, great blog!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

My wife and I started this business and built our home out of reclaimed wood and building materials in the name of the environment and being eco-friendly. Like most entrepreneurs, I think I’m probably the worst, most demanding boss I’ve ever had. I LOVE my wife and kids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand. Founders cant demand such concessions unless their companies are doing well. Why use your real name? Please enter your first and last name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In fact, we know so much that we already know what they will care enough about (namely, the product’s quality – as opposed to, say, missing features). Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? And, of course, we already know that they will care enough to be offended.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

We have the second highest corporate income tax structure, and soon to be the highest as soon as Japan reduces its rates this year. In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market. In America, the cost of doing business is very high.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It’s important to note that system I’m about to explain evolved organically in response to new demands on the system and in response to post-mortems of failures. In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Pay attention to whether people are comfortable “naming names&# in the meeting. oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. Why didn’t our tests/QA/immune system catch and prevent the problem? They seem to be liking it. (oh,

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. Gox in Japan and I'm not going to send a wire to Japan. But basically from that moment, we struggled to keep up with the demand as opposed to trying to create more demand.

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