SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 You could just outspend. What should I do?’.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Categories and indexes on the web pages aren’t quite the right metaphor or substitute for random access. So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. Startup Culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said. What would you suggest for a business like this?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In my view, the very fact that they feel that the technical development of a web startup is only worth a couple percent speaks volumes. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position. That’s a pretty common experience.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

A Word on Strategy Every good business begins with a solid understanding of the proposition and business plan - in short, your strategy. Its worth reading Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint ; it’ll provide you with an idea of what should be included in your business plan and strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said. Thanks I get a copy for myself for xmas December 10, 2009 7:28 PM Jamie Flinchbaugh said. Very well written article. Great post.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5 A steep discount may not fit with your business plan and current financial state, but make sure you find some way to compensate your initial believers. million people in 24 hours as a result.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 2, 2009 Lessons Learned on Mashable today I had the good fortune to be asked to write a guest post over at Mashable , which is running today, called HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009. Web and mobile. It also provides support and guidance well beyond that phase. E and more).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. What plan says that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Fill in the business blanks. Build a web presence. Choose a business model. And, once you’ve decided which overall business structure is the right fit for you, it’s time to get more specific. We recommend that you write a business plan. Build a web presence. Get to know the legal stuff.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., I love these sites: Hacker News for startup/entrepreneurial advice, TechCrunch and The Next Web for keeping up with trends, [and] Inbound.org for SEO/marketing.”. Tough, but rewarding work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Now you can build an app at true web scale without incurring any software costs, or any fixed hardware costs. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Ben Hron: Five signs it’s time to get your business organized. Submitted by Jason Evanish on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 8:31am. ” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0 JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. One occurrence of this was in Q1/Q2 2009. In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. The site hung on to its design philosophy of being an island cut off from the rest of the Web, and paid the price. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

They might just transform your business. One of the most dangerous things a business can do if it hopes to succeed is to establish a business plan, then refuse to deviate from it. For today’s firms, that may mean developing a subscription strategy, using social media, and rethinking web design and marketing style.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Many entrepreneurship courses focus on teaching students “how to write a business plan.” are what make it a business, 2) business plans are fine for large companies where there is an existing market, existing product and existing customers. This class is not about how to write a business plan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. According to the site, there are nearly 6,000 courses covering topics in business, technology, and creative skills. Learning online isn’t just convenient and reasonably priced.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. According to the site, there are nearly 6,000 courses covering topics in business, technology, and creative skills. Learning online isn’t just convenient and reasonably priced.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Funding for the companies spinning out of Stanford’s engineering department in the 1950’s benefited from the tight integration and web of relationships between Fred Terman, Stanford, the U.S. Unable to buy any plans or models he committed the details to memory. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

The area is best tackled through the four C’s of customer information, which are crucial components of any business plan. Today, we’re fortunate to live in an age where we can keep an effortless record of emails, web analytics and online sales with the right technology. By 1989, just 15 percent of U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

However, for the Web 2.0 In contract to the linear execution via business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.) For example, I told my students doing life sciences projects it would be 5-10 years before they needed to worry about customers.

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Altgate

APRIL 25, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike → 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco Posted on April 25, 2010 by fnazeeri I love stuff like this.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Again, on our call I talked about the company I helped with their business plan template marketing. The “finished story” here wasn’t the obvious – a finished business plan. It was having raised money successfully with the polished and professional business plan. It was farther removed than that.

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