Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . — Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

When sites are designed, developed and written with web accessibility in mind, everyone has equal access to online information, products, and opportunities. aged 12+ had hearing loss in both ears, based on standard hearing examinations, from 2001 to 2008. Accessibility Developer Tools. In-development content. Key content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. There are tons of tips for developing your startup's pitch. Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Correlation Ventures is tied to a different legacy—HNC Software, which was a pioneering developer of predictive software that was used to assess the risk of credit card fraud. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Eric asked me what specific tools Rails developers could use when building a lean startup. They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Learn a little something about innovation when developing and marketing video games from the co-founder of Fine & Dandy Games, whose Goop proved successful on the iPad and iPhone amongst hefty competition. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan. Blake Mycoskie at TreeHugger , Sept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. Not only are there free compilers and development systems, but there are also a number of efforts to develop development systems and languages specifically aimed at teaching kids to program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Don’t wait for your perfect business development deals to come to fruition that are 6-months away in your pipeline.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. return on investment after 3.5

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) ► May. (1).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

Back in 2008 I wrote a series of blog posts extolling the emerging virtues of RSS technology. There are plenty of alternatives for reading RSS feeds and this should spark the development of even better ones. This week’s announcement that Google Reader is shutting down has me and many others waxing a bit nostalgic.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Fox, BBC, Vice, Univision) who have the development resources to take advantage of JW Player. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Rumored to be appox. Primarily targets SMBs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Want to learn more about me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. That is customer development. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction. Except it didn’t take off. [I

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Philippe Botteri.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. if you have ZERO, I mean ZERO developing knowledge, where do you start? My question is.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I'm curious as to your current thoughts on it, given the recent developments. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. ► 2008. (14). February 11, 2012 11:00 PM. Daniel Sisson. Interesting views on crowdfunding. April 12, 2012 11:10 AM.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Each kind of shard just maps to an appropriate kind of URL: customer://1234 (id) forums://master (vertical) log://January/2008 (date) You can even do more complex schemes, like having groups of IDs all map to the same URL in a bucket system, although I recommend keeping it simple whenever possible. January 19, 2009 9:45 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Our investments in the space have followed suit.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. And so we built our company.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Since 2008, The Startup Garage Team has helped entrepreneurs achieve the milestones that investors evaluate by thoroughly preparing the business and investor documents. From their experiences, we aggregated the amount of preparation time it takes for a founder to have the best chance at successfully raising startup funding. Operations.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. Apple rejected the app but the company plans to continue developing on the Android and Blackberry platforms. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. TASE:TUZA); Teuza Management and Development Ltd.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. Apple rejected the app but the company plans to continue developing on the Android and Blackberry platforms. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. TASE:TUZA); Teuza Management and Development Ltd.

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