Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

2- Transformative development. 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence. Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. Lancaster ! #2- 5- Two things.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One of the most rewarding aspects of Sales leadership is being “close to the money.” This leaves less time for developing and training the existing team. By lead type and vertical? Instead, they focus on coaching and developing their teams. Model this in. 2) When an Org. Have you looked at customer retention by cohort?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am working to develop deeper relationships with LitLife’s school and district partners to ensure that our literacy consulting work is as effective as possible. I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. 10- Build a cohesive leadership team. Photo Credit: Nomi Ellenson.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We have developed a proprietary machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk and return profile of the business and determines whether to invest in the business. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. Alternative Capital. “

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube. We will obviously take a page out of their successful playbook. Congrats, Team MiTú.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. what Market Type is your startup?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. “Oh No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. Oh yes, company X, they’re having problem 343.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Nobody will be offended if you shop around until you find the one that clicks for you at each step of your development toward whatever is your personal goal for this particular sport. 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.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. A demand generation manager’s responsibilities involve creating and distributing targeted content ( blog posts , podcasts, and thought leadership) that educates potential customers on solving common challenges relevant to their product or industry.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

These include operational systems, production systems, sales and marketing systems, finance and legal systems, strategic alignment systems, idea decision systems, rapid research systems — and the list goes on. Develop systems that enable instead of control. But ideas can’t be random.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2012

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Develop a tool to assess current alignment. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. A chat room.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

Learn how this revolutionary technology will transform industry verticals. Developers will gain exclusive opportunities to build with technologies from top tech companies and compete in teams for our grand prize! Developer Summit. A key learning opportunity for your future leadership team. Leadership in IoT.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Some of the obvious vertical markets have been around cleantech and bio / life sciences but some of the more subtle ones have been around government services and non-profits. If you fit in this mix or know someone or an organization that does, can you leave a comment on this post?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

A few weeks back I wrote about 5 traits of leadership and some of the characteristics that great leaders share. Leadership is all well and good (not to mention completely necessary), but there is more to a business than simply the person or people who lead it. Great talent can be bought, but great talent can also be developed in-house.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. A Stanford professor was at Harvard in World War II because the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development thought Terman was the best radio engineer in the country.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Customer Development is about Testing the Founder’s Hypothesis Any idiot can get outside the building and ask customers what they want, compile a feature list and hand it to engineering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. The takeaway for entrepreneurs is that they need to take the time to develop the requisite skills and then practice and perfect. Audaciousness. 10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Academics.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Sloan transferred responsibility down from corporate into each of the operating divisions (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac). One guy really did all of this.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Conduct client development interviews. Much like our digital PR offering, we started with a lean operation: We used Google Sheets to manage content operations across all accounts, along with dashboards that each client had access to. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. Prior to Peachtree, my first job out of Georgia Tech was with AT&T’s famous Initial Management Development Program (IMDP). Deals were getting done there.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Opening Night Happy Hour and Keynote with Scott Kupor Time : Monday, September 23rd, 6:00pm-8:00pm Location/Track : Capital Factory, Fundraising Track Austin Startup Week’s first keynote is with Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz— where he is responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

As we ran our tests, our engineering team found ways to improve our graphic boards performance for these applications and they made revisions to the boards firmware (its operating instructions.) These were applications we had never seen or ran before when the boards were designed. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

But a series of Zen-like moments helped me move to a different level that changed how I operated. Reply Customer Development Gut Checks « Market By Numbers - Brant Cooper , on April 28, 2009 at 11:38 am Said: [.] It didn’t make my marketing skills any worse or better, but moved me to play forever on a different field.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

However, sometimes business owners, company founders and independent operators have to take a tough look in the mirror. If the articles, books, conferences and professional development you partake in and consume are all about your single vertical or corner in the business-owning stratosphere, now is the time to broaden your focus.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence. political leadership with a much bigger picture. They developed the National Intelligence Estimate – a series of reports which summarized their judgment about the size of the Russian threat. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now the Soviets had first hand knowledge of how their air defense systems would work against the nuclear armed B-52G and H models in an operational environment. All as an integral part of the Strategic Integrated Operating Plan – our war-fighting plan to destroy the Soviet Union. 23 to Ann Arbor when the leaves turned in the fall.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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