crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Dying Art Of Design – [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Our design team is comprised of top talent who have been laid off or have grown disenchanted with the big corporate models of major fashion brands (though by requirement they all have at least 5 years of major corporation experience). Thanks to Stefanie Tacata, Stateless Fashion Design and Consulting. #2 crew, Aeropostale, etc.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For example, you may design beautiful looking websites, but your clients want something that looks great and performs as a lead generator. For example, after looking at the broader market, we saw that a service that helps marketers scale their video content was in demand. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. In the game business of the early 1990’s video was at best a brief narrative, a distraction you maybe watched once, not the core of the game.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups. And tech has become a necessity in our lives, and that place is now further solidified with the fast adoption of video conferencing and digital creation platforms. Technology and modern life cannot be pulled apart.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Every aspect of your restaurant’s design should fulfill one or of these two roles : . A crisp online video of you with the customers, or you working alongside your chefs would interest the customer much more than lengthy printed menu stories that they might not be able to relate to, and might even turn them off. Entices them to spend.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. The Customer Development Process I teach and write about is designed to do just that. You may have a set of hypothesis about them but you really don’t know.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. It includes brand awareness tactics like press releases and influencer marketing , as well as more product-specific efforts, such as case studies and middle- or bottom-of-funnel walkthrough videos. SEO should lead with intent.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. But make sure it fits who you are. The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder? carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. This is an innovative but slightly bizarre design technique common to the 1920s and 1930s that conserved the number of vacuum tubes required for a radio receiver.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I didn’t give his video game idea another thought. How could it go wrong? Little did I know.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path. Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Impressions can be used in real-time for decision-making by your display, video and search platforms (e.g., When designating a metric as a KPI, this is your foremost consideration: depth of influence. Action #2: Aligning Metrics & Leadership Altitude. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Netflix had barely started experimenting with online video. Their content wasn’t designed to rank for popular keywords and harness existing search volume. It’s sometimes called thought leadership content.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks. (I Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] Reply Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? carry on reading. Blog at WordPress.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

Click play on the video above and watch his work come to life! We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Executive Coach’s Guide to Hacking Leadership bit.ly/1yWvgiO.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. I had been teaching Z8000 design to customers for the last year and a half. I understand how our products were being used and why we won design-in’s over Intel or Motorola. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

This video shows how easily your productivity, whether work or leisure related can quickly be undermined by those we love most. We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Someone from your company has to be designated the official competitive intelligence officer for this show. Someone from your company has to be designated the opportunity monitor, responsible for coordinating potential partner information and disseminating it in writing after the show. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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