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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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

According to Edison Research , 80% of users listen to most of each episode, averaging 7 per week, while 69% of listeners agree that podcast ads make them aware of new products or services. But podcasting does have a lower cost and barrier to entry than video (at least quality video production). Podcast production.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2012

There was a day when the press release did a lot of the work in generating actual media coverage for a firm announcing a new product, acquisition, award or some other newsworthy milestone. Publishing a consistent stream of press releases as a tool to announce and distribute news is a proven lead generation tactic right now. Distribute.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products yearly with new models rolled out every year.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

The interesting part is when you get a couple months into your product cycle. However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. @AndrewChen New here?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

However you get to a good product is how you need to get to a good product. If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Idea (A) is just a broad concept of a new product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! It’s much like a bookmarking tool with social sharing in your network added. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Many customers just don’t understand why they need an account to buy a product. This is rarely at the same page (although that does happen) but is most often happening across multiple pages.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. After debts have been paid, the remaining assets and cash reserves should be distributed to the owners/members in proportion to ownership interest. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. Design & Production. The breakdown: “We prefer to take the extra step when measuring ‘influence’ and look at the value of referral links in terms of page authority. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Distribution. Production Software. Design/Production.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

The sketches showed the protagonist coming to the website with a purpose and interacting with different pages. I’ll point to the whiteboard, filled with scribbles and notes about users and objectives, and remark that including all of that on one page wouldn’t work. What do you show on this page? - select -. Newsletter.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. of DotNetInvoice (my asp.net billing product) about 2 weeks ago. The only problem is that a single development license for their software is more expensive than our entire product. We launched version 2.5 So we contacted the company and worked out a deal. ~Rob

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Well, on the surface it appears to align price with customer success (bigger customers pay more money), it gives you the excuse to have really fun widgets on your pricing page, and it seems to offer low-cost entry options which then scale to the moon. If you like what you see, I encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed. About Patrick.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Personalize your own news page. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt now control nearly 66% of the voting power.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I own a website that EVERYONE gets excited about when I explain it, and then they love it when they log on… however, people who have never heard about it go to the site and don’t register, I know this is because my landing page is weak, any helpful hints to better my landing page? Building Product 2. a new art form?

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product?’&# Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

by Adrian Cockcroft and Denis Sheahan Netflix has been rolling out the Apache Cassandra NoSQL data store for production use over the last six months. We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. It is now a cross-site scripting vulnerability against every page it is embedded on.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. Great product names help and bad product names hurt. infoChachkie.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

eXpireTrack – Track and plan for the date that products are to expire. Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. clickbook – A free online booking and scheduling program.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Except for one thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have sales productivity software? Facts: I don’t really care about total page views or uniques other than as a measure of whether I’m improving. Apparently not.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 12, 2010

I had my blog redesigned to include an opt-in box, and created my first landing page at BlogTrafficKing.com, coding the entire page myself, making the process much more painful and slow than it needed to be. Create a dedicated landing page for your newsletter. Create a product and promote it using a launch process.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Understanding your “driving force&# is critical to understanding what products to build and who to build them for. Dupont , 3M , and Intel are good examples.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Describe every thing you can click on the first page. Example: “If its a new user, it takes them to this welcome page. If theyve been here before, it takes them to their account page. If it asks for a number, but they type a word, send them back to the same page but with a message.” What happens when you click it?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Craigslist, Del.icio.us, Google, 37signals products, the original Twitter design, even Amazon and eBay). The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. Lowdowns landing page. If you have a great app that is easy and intuitive to use, it doesnt really matter what it looks like (e.g.,

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. A version of this article appeared March 4, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. On the Editorial Page. Discuss products and services offered online.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Google DevRel created a page of Google resources for startups – from the site’s description: “This site contains a selection of tools you will find useful when building, measuring, and enhancing your apps. Facebook Fan Pages. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away. Google Page Speed.

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