Up and Running

MAY 10, 2013

Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate , which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. .

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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. Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall. Reply Niall Smart , on May 2, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: Great story – your point about snazzy design vs. actual impact is still relevant in the context of spending money on outsourced web graphic design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Part 1 of this post offered some suggestions on going to trade shows to generate awareness.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. PR/Marketing. Engineering/QA. Start a blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. February 22, 2009 5:54 PM CapnCleaver said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Collective Intellect’s customers use this analysis to inform and measure the effectiveness of their PR and marketing strategy. CTOs need to stay involved with customers to make decisions about the project innovation and development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

As Techcrunch announced earlier today, Accel led a $10m round in the company to help them develop their service across all Europe. ► 2009. (9). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. We are happy to jump on board this rocket ship and help the company change the lives of millions more people! at 12:17 PM.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

I published ” Celebritize Yourself ” in the spring of 2009. And even if I thought I did, how foolish would that look – the PR expert getting help with her PR? When I set out to develop my media message for “ Celebritize Yourself “, I found it a much bigger challenge than I’d expected.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you? In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. March 7, 2009 3:31 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric March 7, 2009 3:35 PM NewWorldOrder said. Great post.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2019

Now serving as Vice President of Development and External Affairs for Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada (BGCC), Chantelois is responsible for making sure the organization meets its fundraising targets… and he is no stranger to fund development. Tell us a little about what you do with Boys and Girls Clubs? I work with an incredible team.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

While I love TechCrunch, the post and the quote about the PR agency (“one PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy, throw ethics out the window&# ) left me wondering; how do PR agencies interact with TechCrunch and other blog and review sites? Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry?

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

The Message Sitting around a conference room table brainstorming messages that might resonate with customers, or worse having a PR agency doing that for you, is a firing offense in a small company. If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,)

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2016

With over thirty years of experience in movement, including professional modern dance, choreographing, teaching, and various somatic movement modalities, Cahoon developed the SMARTCore Method to teach clients how to move smarter for optimal health and wellbeing. For Kaylee Cahoon, finding the right location was extremely important.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. Hollywood in the beginning was a bunch of artists who wanted to make entertainment, and then the whole infrastructure of PR and hangers on and the New York money came in. Basically we take a few days off.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. Reply Vincent Chan @Power of Scale , on June 22, 2009 at 9:35 am Said: Thanks for showing this letter. That year HP introduced its first computer, the HP 2116A , as an instrument controller for HP’s test and measurement products.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). and no, we didn’t. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild.

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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? Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Do some Customer Development instead. First off, what does it mean to launch?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence. They developed the National Intelligence Estimate – a series of reports which summarized their judgment about the size of the Russian threat. And the way we were going to do it was with electronic/signals intelligence. political leadership with a much bigger picture.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They said the product reviews in these publications were by far the biggest influence on which card to buy. (This made our PR problem manageable and focused. Ben Reply Dmitriy Kruglyak , on March 20, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Steve, I look forward to a similar backstory on E.piphany marketing!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Then, in each development cycle, use the insights gained by studying customers to make improvements. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our VP of Business Development had no problems getting meetings and fund raising was easy. Out of the Ashes A few of the key tenets of Customer Development , came from the ashes. Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. So while the words may have passed through my ears I couldn’t “hear&# it.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009. Thanks for sharing Sophie Dupont Business Development Director SD-Efficiency Paris - France. Just stumbled upon your blog as I'm working on developing my companies Saas comp plan. ▼ 2009. (9). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Cracking The Code.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. It was a happy accident when I got back into NYC VC in 2009 that I just happened to find the Ace Hotel--a space that was really conducive to meetings and founders working on projects.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

But a subsequent visit in January 2009 saw a massive change: the students were excited about entrepreneurship. Before I start discussing the businesses, I'd like to highlight the role the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) has played in developing the e-cells at 470 different schools and colleges in India.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 3, 2015

Foursquare began its journey in 2009, with its flagship app connecting people to places and introducing a series of game mechanics that got people hooked. Throughout this time I was on the other end of all the inbound requests and deals on the business development team and learned a ton. Chapter 2: Building the Sales Machine.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

David Meerman Scott David is the author of 7 books, Real-Time Marketing & PR , is his newest addition to the collection. David has presented at hundreds of industry conferences and events and the marketing programs he has developed are responsible for selling over one billion in products and services worldwide. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Nice talk, thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. July 9, 2009 7:32 AM Peter Kane said. July 9, 2009 8:46 AM Anonymoussaid. Great post.

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