Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

What did I learn so far?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Image source.

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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. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. I agree completely.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

For example, if you bought a Lean Cuisine meal, you would expect the food to look very similar to the picture on the box after cooking it. Usually, something like this: Unfortunately, consumers are often faced with this reality : The prepared Lean Cuisine meal only slightly resembles the picture promised on the box.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Eventually, games that depended only on CDRom for their differentiation fizzled out, as people saw that the access times for all that data made the games a painful experience. You could explain that, while you had access to more storage space per game, you were still running on the same Intel chip with the same graphics board.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Our cognitive process leans towards understanding objects in their simplest form. As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. In November 2014, Google published findings that suggest vertical ad units are the most viewable.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Reply Idont , on October 16, 2009 at 9:12 am Said: How can you differentiate if you copy-paste the well established leader. Siddharth Reply Ardent War Story 4: You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job « Steve Blank , on October 15, 2009 at 6:02 am Said: [.] Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn [.]

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. People price differentiate all the time. They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system? Bill Gurley : Great. Bill Gurley : Do you believe that?

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