Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. But the differences are worth noting – it’s a young ecosystem, so startup management tools are nearly non-existent.

China 215

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. billion U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

Ellen worked in both traditional and non-traditional positions. She has established a leadership culture that enables women in the transportation industry to build their confidence by proving themselves capable and competent. She spent almost 18 years licensing and permitting carriers in Central Wisconsin.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Enterprise sites are typically bigger, which adds emphasis on technical accessibility, but the basics remain: Can search engines efficiently access your content? Conclusion.

SEO 121

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But a market in which every network competes to sign up the largest talent by throwing rev share deals at them is also stupid. And while Maker Studios has almost 50 engineers now, it isn’t the only MCN with tech chops. It’s a team of Stanford engineers with direct video distribution skills. ’s digital studio.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

SEO 122

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Also, the non-profit will start offering their program outside the juvenile detention centers. The students are thus trained to become top frontend developers ready to compete at an international level, and ready to work on real-life projects from the detention center. The future: from young offenders to prevention. About Transformify.

Peru 64

Peru Non-Compete Web Development Switzerland 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2021

Yet my own experience, and a still relevant McKinsey survey , leads me to believe that non-cash motivators may be more effective in the long term than financial incentives. If the people are the engine of your success, to be a great leader you need to attend to your people with a laser-like focus. I agree with Charles P.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function.

Part-Time VPE 136

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

The low-fidelity nature of the deliverable also encourages non-designers to join the discussion. Competencies over roles One of the interesting outcomes of implementing this process at TheLadders has been the gradual breakdown of the concept of “roles” within the team. For example, software engineering write code.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Anyone who has had the need for a lawyer understands the pinch of hiring competent legal help. In return, he received customized employee handbooks, non-compete agreements, company policies, and nasty-grams sent to delinquent account holders. . Tip #2: Choose a non-traditional attorney. Tip #4: Use your leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Always start with a formal proposal, limited in scope to a specific common objective or technology, for a limited amount of time, bounded by a two-way non-disclosure statement. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

Partner 147

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Companies are great at improving their existing business model and value propositions, but fall short when it comes to inventing entirely new business models, value propositions, and growth engines. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different. The former requires slow and careful decision making.

Non-Compete 329

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 329

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Lessons Learned.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. Poort (Rescale): Since we were not able to raise money early on, we just started building a product that we ourselves as engineers would want to use. Prince: Business History.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Today Facebook opened it’s first non-US engineering centre in London. We compete with some much larger startup hubs and it’s important we play to our strengths.

Engineer 113

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

This includes other non-competing agencies, as well as software and technology vendors. The best content distribution approach is to reverse-engineer your client’s consumption habits. Experiment with content partnerships with other players in your space that aren’t directly competing. Collaborate on an in-depth guide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Always start with a formal proposal, limited in scope to a specific common objective or technology, for a limited amount of time, bounded by a two-way non-disclosure statement. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

Partner 244

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

13:51] What are some of the effective ways that you’ve seen people merging digital and non-digital? [16:30] And so I think a lot of the applications for AI are around, they run the gamut from as simple as subject line suggesting you may type something and an engine can say back to you, Oh this line might be better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

The Ultimate Marketing Engine: 5 Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Many folks are familiar with organizations like BNI, you know, where people get together and, and join a network of non-competing businesses. Like this show? Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Instead of connecting with competent workers on a global level, companies have adapted their recruitment strategies to contend for local senior talent. The factors are manifold. Closed borders prevent job seekers from interacting abroad, and opportunities for mentorship and talent training are restricted.

Hiring 264

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. It’s the norm more than you think. Shame on you.

Operations 150

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. So here are some more details …. CAC Let me start with the easy stuff and graduate to the punch line in the final section.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Steamchain’s transaction engine will be a great utility for them to charge their customers for the usage of these algorithms. It was a sophisticated engineering tool for sizing and selection of advanced servo-robotic equipment. We are very enthusiastic about any non-cryptocurrency applications of blockchain technology.

Artificial Inteligence 48

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Always start with a formal proposal, limited in scope to a specific common objective or technology, for a limited amount of time, bounded by a two-way non-disclosure statement. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

Partner 120

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

to be competent, optimizers need a basic understanding of statistics and propensity models. Regression is a good option because it’s very interpretable for non-technical audiences, which means it can be communicated easily. For example, do you know the difference between linear and logistic regression models?

Analytics 118

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

You can also use this time to review any non-performing revenue lines and exit them. Off the back of COVID-19, for example, we have seen competing operations establish a new business in partnership to help keep costs down and leverage a joint advantage. Plus, sometimes through these discussions other solutions can surface.

Technical Review 52

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products.

Management 150

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

John Jantsch (11:30): I mean, it was a big part of my last, uh, book, the ultimate marketing engine. I wrote a book called the referral engine. I, I, but it's also something that people are probably sick of hearing about and that's NFTs non fungible tokens. So the, the idea of a non fungible token, what is it? All right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. Trust your instincts – they will serve you well as an entrepreneur. But much good also came.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas. Access to capital is important for scaling companies and competing in active markets. As the local capital base grows the opportunity to attract non-local funding sources increases.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking.

Portfolio 60

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Something so special, it stands out against everyone you compete with. If you are in this category, know that the last “secret” of ecommerce is that figuring out how to weaponize shipping – and free returns – is a powerful conversion increasing engine. using PII or non-PII information… Does your site actively learn and then change ?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Be sure you find someone who is not just competent in understanding technology, but someone who is passionate about technology.

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