Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

I’ve heard investors ask about sustainable technical differentiation for companies that you put on the customer/market risk end of the scale. are much more differentiating than technology. What is your perspective on ‘sustainable technical differentiation’ for customer/market risk companies?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

I agree to get emails. Indeed, even if you knew that a competitor had a higher-converting site, how would you know whether that comparative improvement resulted from the site design or email strategy or brand recognition? The lean, aggressive ones do. Free UX & Usability course. By Karl Gilis. Get the course now.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:09): Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. If you're writing an email, my goodness, just highlight the things you want people to do with it. And then you can lean into that part of your natural human communication skills. Ann (13:03): Yeah.

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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. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Sunset BoulevardBOOTY SHAKE CONTEST GONE [.]

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2020

These tips set a baseline to help ensure your emails are strategically oriented toward respecting journalists’ work, and positioning your company in a positive and intriguing light. Instead, think of your pitch email as setting the table, then letting the reader know what’s on the menu — not immediately serving the dinner.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

I love the way you differentiate. Would you be interested in guest posting? Jacob Webb Everyday Entrepreneurship [link] Reply Keenan , on April 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, Your Hueristics are at the core. Sometimes, it’s the failures or mistakes that lead to the successess.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you. You have to decide where to lean in on follow-on rounds. Inbound is seldom differentiated dealflow.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Key Takeaway: Today, people are distracted, overwhelmed, and isolated – because of this, there’s been a massive decline in receptivity to another sales pitch, call, or email. I get all manner of pitches today, essentially cold calls, some in the form of email, LinkedIn requests and the challenge. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Why do so many companies fail to differentiate ? Ways to differentiate: reverse brand. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. – Eric Ries. Drucker (1966).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

To further diversify, consider strategies to drive viewers to join an email newsletter or Facebook community. I lean on these YouTube channels for info on the YouTube algorithm: Little Monster Media Co ; Derral Eves ; Roberto Blake ; Tim Schmoyer. This part is the hardest. Your organic YouTube strategy. lower views) in our data.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

That’s often the major differentiator between the achievers and the laggards. They know how to “lean in” to a topic and exert influence on it. He would email a request for a phone call; I’d respond with my open times and my unavailable times, and he’d let those hours pass with no response.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. Sign up to receive email updates. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. ConvertKit’s strategy is geared around building email marketing tools for independent creators, allowing their customers to build and nurture their own audience. What about churned customers?

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Brandanew

AUGUST 4, 2015

Some key pointers are: a) Branding experts will create stories helping you differentiate from competitors. It is harder when you are a lean Startup trying to get everything in place faster and in a more efficient manner. ii) How to win your fight with Email overload. I just started a Brandanew feature with SheOwnsIt readers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

When the products you sell are also available from thousands of other vendors at the same or lower prices, how do you differentiate your business and convince customers to buy from you? For example, when a buyer posts a project on crowdSPRING , I email them, thanking them for their business. Others call. image: wtiphotos.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. What type of messaging works best for these emails?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. Bing is very open to 3 rd party elements in their index that create a differentiated user experience.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

What did I learn so far? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But it was when I truly leaned in to our own value proposition, and trusted our internal staff, that I discovered the value of a mobile-first employee engagement strategy. Yet to date, most people don’t have an application that provides updates on their job, outside of email. At Bluebridge, we have an internal team called “Bridgelife”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. For his doctoral work, his research focused on liver tissue engineering and stem cell differentiation. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles. Sunny received his Ph.D.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

The first component Contrast (C) can be understood as the differentiation, positioning and unique value proposition of the idea. The trick is to hit people again and again until they take positive action – not delete your email/invitations/you from their lives! Exposure (E) talks about how often you truly connect to your network.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Something that differentiates MixPanel from other solution is the ability to track server side events too. when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3) You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2017

With people’s attention spans getting shorter, there is growing pressure to make surveys lean. For B2B, post-conversion survey could be part of an on-boarding email. The key differentiator for this product was a 3G connection that didn’t require communicating through a phone.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Something that differentiates MixPanel from other solution is the ability to track server side events too. when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3) You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

Actually, all the to-do list applications I have tried claim to be simple, it is not a differentiator anymore. I am aware that KissMetrics is applying the lean startup principle that promotes to publish a minimum viable product and iterate based on feedback. The most obvious example is the Tada List from 37 Signals.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. For his doctoral work, his research focused on liver tissue engineering and stem cell differentiation. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles. Sunny received his Ph.D.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Now, having said that, I think as I’ve matured as an entrepreneur and as a business owner, the one thing I think that we’ve got apart from our sense of community, the one thing I think that we’ve got that is differential or makes it really hard for our competitors to get near us, is our brand.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

You’re looking at weeks of work just to create your infrastructural table stakes (the bare minimum) and that’s before you start working on the stuff differentiates you. Just because you’re the one making the cold call or hitting “send” the on-boarding email doesn’t mean that that is how you’ll run your business for life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Thats not the goal of a lean startup. Your writing is certainly not lean. Great post Eric.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. How will you differentiate?” Acceptable : Would you mind if next time I’m in Boulder I emailed you to see if you had 30 minutes for a coffee? I buy dead magazines.” He gets a stare every time. He’s a master. He knows your next line in advance, “Excuse me?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2023

06:12] Today we don’t have any way to stand out in the market or way to differentiate ourselves from our customers. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, marketing agency owners, you know, I can teach you the keys to doubling your business in just 90 days or your money back. Like this show?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

So much so, it seems almost impossible that any company could differentiate themselves. In this case, once a deal is purchased, a secure QR ticket is sent directly to the person’s cell phone via SMS text message or email. Fortunately, Cup o’ Noodles is still around along with some good old Lean Cuisines. makes sense.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] My email list for “unbloggable” thoughts and ideas – Venture Sprout. [.] Watson. [.]

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