Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

With today’s Internet instant access to all the latest reports and white papers of industry experts, there is no excuse for not staying current with outside perspectives, to temper your own views. I often hear entrepreneurs who seem to rely wholly on their own passion, and the view of a few friends.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a startup if you don’t hold any. With my tail between my legs I was left to ponder: What was the function of marketing in a startup?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Outside the U.S. In the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. On the other hand, spending your entire startup budget on market research won’t improve your odds of success or funding. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

UP Global just released a great new white paper titled Fostering a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem. As you might know, I’m on the board of UP Global and think they are doing amazing things for startup communities around the world. Enjoy the white paper and join us for the hangout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2021

If necessary, create a separate white paper for other details and reports. With that in mind, here are some specifics that bear repeating, updated from an old, but still accurate, article on simple plans by Tim Berry: Keep the plan short. You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. Polish the overall look and feel.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Without an effective lead-nurturing strategy, a young startup will quickly find itself in dangerous territory. That’s why it’s essential for startups to commit to continually improving their lead nurturing sequence. As a startup, learning how to manage your leads is essential from the perspective of growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

You don’t need a real book as a base for electronic books, as people now prefer something akin to a “white paper” on steroids. Arnie Kuenn business content marketing entrepreneur startup' People these days love to submit stories, vote on other entries, and receive the recognition of even small prizes or product rewards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. So what are some credible marketing and promotion steps you should consider for your startup? A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. If they don’t then it’s a case of putting your prospect into a “marketing funnel” so that non-sales resources can focus on staying in touch with the customer through white papers, seminars, etc. So there you have it.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. On the other hand, spending your entire startup budget on market research won’t improve your odds of success or funding. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. On the other hand, spending your entire startup budget on market research won’t improve your odds of success or funding. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. So what are some credible marketing and promotion steps you should consider for your startup? A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc. Announcing Multicoin Capital was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole. Why should a public market downturn determine an investment in a startup that has seven to 10 years to go before it can even think about an IPO?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2019

If necessary, create a separate white paper for other details and reports. With that in mind, here are some specifics that bear repeating, updated from a classic article on simple plans by Tim Berry: Keep the plan short. You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. Polish the overall look and feel.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Consistency is equally critical for startups. Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. You only have to look at top brands to see this in action: Apple’s sleekness, Coca-Cola’s playfulness, Disney’s magic. Don’t get bogged down in the details of how to create each asset here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. So what are some credible marketing and promotion steps you should consider for your startup? business entrepreneur funding marketing budget mission startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

You don’t need a real book as a base for electronic books, as people now prefer something akin to a “white paper” on steroids. People these days love to submit stories, vote on other entries, and receive the recognition of even small prizes or product rewards. Traditional publishing out, self-publishing in with eBooks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

People want to connect with and learn from people like them – not from edicts, anonymous brand marketing material, and white papers that allow no interaction. Influencers build trust by being transparent with their team and their customers on tough questions and issues. Pick a niche and target audience to demonstrate commitment.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

Launching a new startup is always a daunting challenge. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman describes the experience of building a startup as jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down. However, the thrill and risks of creating a startup in a nascent space with vague regulations are magnified. Source: Pixabay.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Consumers are tired of this clickbait, this spam, these popups, these ads sharing personal data to access crappy white papers seeing the same thing over and over. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. 14:21): So that was the second piece.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Competitor''s annual reports, white papers, press releases and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. On the other hand, spending your entire startup budget on market research won’t improve your odds of success or funding. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

It will arm them with more design thinking than the most cutting edge white paper.” Chloë Constantinides from Dapper was nice enough to provide a full explanation of their customer journey mapping: Chloë Constantinides: “The customer journey focuses on that of a typical startup or someone who comes up with an independent idea.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If Low; a surprising number of Series A/B startups are missing basic financial reporting mechanisms. Of the Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

If necessary, create a separate white paper for other details and reports. business plan entrepreneur fundable simple startup' With that in mind, here are some specifics that bear repeating updated from an old article on simple plans by Tim Berry: Keep the plan short. Polish the overall look and feel. Simple is not stupid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change.

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View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

Stevens has held roles across verticals such as head of sales, marketing, product, and professional services at five startups over twenty years. He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics. Demonstrate the things that big companies love about buying from startups.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Venture Capital Venture Capital Term Sheets Startups Term Sheets What are examples of good startup term sheets? Back in March, Andreessen Horowitz and Fenwick & West, LLP published a series of documents that would help structure early stage investments in startups.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is because most of them don’t register for webinars/white papers or respond to unsolicited emails. The post Account-Based Marketing (ABM): Everything You Need To Know appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Plus, they’re less likely to follow companies or salespersons on Twitter , and so on.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Other times, they may need a detailed case study or white paper to close the deal with an educated client. The post How to Supercharge Your Sales Team appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Your sales team needs collateral content to support their conversations with clients at various levels of the sales process.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Making your startup succeed. The most successful startups work innovative responses to copy cats into their plans. Your startup is a GO! But, successful startups accept those challenges as opportunities. You’re ready when you have positioned your head and body to life the life of a startup leader. Defy competition.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They were startups just six years ago and some have already evolved into multi-billion dollar companies. That brings me back to ideas, because you can learn so much from reading trade magazines, journals, white papers and books. The legalization of cannabis is a trend that we are really excited about.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

We stole a lot of our process from some of the leading thinkers in the “Lean Startup” space – particularly Gary Blanks’ Four Steps to the Epiphany and Randy Komisar’s Getting to Plan B. Create sales collateral, white papers, lead generation programs, case studies and PR plan. This is where the ongoing feedback was crucial.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2017

If necessary, create a separate white paper for other details and reports. With that in mind, here are some specifics that bear repeating, updated from a classic article on simple plans by Tim Berry: Keep the plan short. You can cover everything you need to convey in 20 pages of text. Polish the overall look and feel.

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