{"id":8027,"date":"2016-06-22T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2016-06-30T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:56:59","slug":"getting-traction-dan-olsen-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/getting-traction-dan-olsen-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting #Traction. Dan Olsen in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Sales traction. You startup will die if you don’t get traction.<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Rescue something dead because they failed to cross the innovation chasm.<\/div>\n
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Dan Olsen shows Stanford engineers born-in-Vancouver how to get traction, gain adoption and, like #ENGR145 Lec 5, cross-the-chasm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nRyan Creamore (@ryancreamore<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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6\/22\/16, 1:51 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
@danolsen<\/a> peels onions in the problem space and doesn’t shed a tear #leanstartup<\/a> #prodmgmt<\/a> #goodfit<\/a> #tractionconf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2uwaOelbV1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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6\/22\/16, 1:25 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
“There are tons of companies that jump right into the solution space without asking who the product is for.”\u00a0@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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6\/22\/16, 1:40 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Are you building the right MVP?\u00a0@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a>\u00a0@TractionConf_io<\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/jP9tRhQ4TL<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Pic. What is an MVP
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<\/span><\/td>\nDanielle Smith (@DaniMcSmith<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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6\/22\/16, 1:58 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
You want to see your curve of user\/customer retention moving up! That’s your sign of product market fit\u00a0@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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6\/22\/16, 1:19 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Quantitative & Qualitative approach to products. Are you a Spock or an Oprah?\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/nxFr4eEU6z<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Spock \/ Oprah pic
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6\/22\/16, 1:44 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
“Interactive design + test workflow: hand sketches > wireframes > test > clickable mockups > live product”\u00a0@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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6\/22\/16, 1:51 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
.@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a>\u00a0talking about finding the ‘greens’ in a bundle.\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/uzDSHjYMSI<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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@danolsen<\/a>\u00a0#tractionconf<\/a>\u00a0today’s delighters become tomorrow’s performance becomes the next day’s must have.\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/wV0kmDdand<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Kano Model.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang Sales traction. You startup will die if you don’t get traction. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&sns=em Rescue something dead because they failed to cross the innovation chasm. Dan Olsen shows Stanford engineers born-in-Vancouver how to get traction, gain adoption and, like #ENGR145 Lec 5, cross-the-chasm: Ryan Creamore (@ryancreamore) 6\/22\/16, 1:51 PM @danolsen peels onions in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}