ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Intuitive design means that when a user sees it, they know exactly what to do. Intuitive design is invisible. Design is intuitive when users can focus on a task at hand without stopping, even for a second. Intuitive designs direct people’s attention to tasks that are important. What is intuitive design?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Let’s design the future we want to live in, shall we?

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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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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Let’s design the future we want to live in, shall we?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. Often, the layout is something their web designer came up without doing a thorough analysis or testing. (In

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Dribbble, we stumbled into ours – we were just building a side project, but it was a site for designers, and Dan is a designer with lots of recognition and credibility. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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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. Waterfall, Agile, Lean? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Liquidity – How?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Steve Blank and Eric Reis have proposed the Customer Development Manifesto and Lean Startup as ways for [.]

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. The lean, aggressive ones do. Competitive Analysis for Design.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. Now, not all stock photographs are bad… …just the designers who use them.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford. met one of each in the last week.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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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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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design & look at your work with a mixed sense of pride & shame. But the client LOVES it! (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). Photograph. ” This applies to both positive & negative experiences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. Just a reflection on my family and hopes for our children. Blog at WordPress.com.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source. The split-screen design tells a simple story: using this system, marketers can take prospects from cold to hot.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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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 Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Even the states that don’t really have hubs have designated some farm land as their tech center in an attempt to keep all their young creative class from migrating to the major cities where careers are plentiful.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post!

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. 37:00-40:30).

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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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Where to Play

MARCH 14, 2018

In the following blog, Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz describes how they chose their first market opportunity, with the help of a newly designed business tool. As we looked closer at the market, many verticals were underserved by the existing solutions that were expensive and complicated to use. Using the right business tools.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. com Michael Robertson.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I distinctly remember this is the first time I head the phrases “features and benefits.&# And since I saw our ads (but didn’t quite understand them,) I knew marketing was the group that designed them, somehow to get customers to think our products were better than Intel and Motorola’s. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 29, 2012

Intuitive design means that when a user sees it, they know exactly what to do. The main thing about intuitive design is that it’s invisible. Design is intuitive when users can focus on a task at hand without stopping even for a second. Intuitive designs direct people’s attention to tasks that are important.

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