Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. It was fun watching it happen. com Michael Robertson.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

No business plan survives first contact with customers The real value is finding the product/market fit. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post!

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I distinctly remember this is the first time I head the phrases “features and benefits.&# And since I saw our ads (but didn’t quite understand them,) I knew marketing was the group that designed them, somehow to get customers to think our products were better than Intel and Motorola’s. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. For all the reasons why business plan competitions are wonderful for students from outside the U.S.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

You’ll want to do everything you can to foster the success of your new business. Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. Co-working spaces have grown an impressive 89 percent in the last 12 months, and 300 percent since 2010.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Back in 2010, Ariely and Berns cautioned that the profit motive may incentivize companies to misuse neuromarketing—encouraging them to try to cross from persuasion to manipulation. Here’s what won’t change: Deceptive marketing tactics and promises not delivered won’t build, as Dooley rightly notes, a sustainable business.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

it really most amazing gadget.its good i am thank full to you Orange County Web Design its amazing for this century.Hi, It is really nice, but could you tell me how should I use this code,thanks for this information. 19) December 2010. (13) 13) November 2010. (18) 18) October 2010. (20) 20) September 2010. (20)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It used to be that a techie needed a business person to get a business plan together and then use that to raise money. Not only are there rafts and rafts of books to help someone cobble together a rudimentary business plan, any quality VC values execution over ideas. OpenWorld 2010. December 2010 (3).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2012

On a whim, the boys took out their entire savings, birthday cash – and bar mitzvah money – to fund their first order of 165 bikes that they designed themselves. Since its launch and the end of 2010, Pure Fix Cycles has generated a revenue of US$1 million within a year and a projected revenue of US$5 million for 2012.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Arin Fishkin did all the original graphic design. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

You’ll want to do everything you can to foster the success of your new business. Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. Co-working spaces have grown an impressive 89 percent in the last 12 months, and 300 percent since 2010.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

I hope this will give you the basic structure to help you build your SaaS sales compensation plan. I have just finished designing a SaaS comp plan and my thinking is very similar. Our SaaS application and our practice is involved with sales incentive design and your design is right on for SaaS sales. at 11:17 AM.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. XML sitemap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Our investors used the product development diagram in our board meeting to see if we were “on plan&# and “on schedule.&# Everyone was using a road map that was designed for a very different location, yet they are surprised when they end up lost. The first thing captured and wrestled to paper is the company’s vision.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. What plan says that? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

What do you think of the design elements? When commenting please state if you have specific skills in visual design, copy or similar. Just as we launched a 2010 site they go all 2011 on us! But we didn’t want to have a “submit your business plan” form. What you’d like to see added, removed or changed. Navigation?

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Your Money Questions Answered Mint.com on 07/07/2010 0 comments How Much Should I Tip? Put people to work and go for it… Just think about how you would want to be approached before you drop a poorly worded business plan bomb on a group of Venture Capitalists, hedge fund group, trust and any friendly Angel Investor.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For software developers 37signals has a great job board as does TechCocktail and if you’re looking for design talent Krop , Smashing Magazine , and elegant.ly Related posts: Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010! 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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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. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) Some of these are questions that would be addressed in a business plan. Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus. Our vision is to to support over 20,000 women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020. What is a coworking space and how is yours unique?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Reply Tony Karrer says: January 22, 2010 at 9:24 am I’ll be posting about this. says: August 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The aha moment hits – an idea, question, problem, a design. It’s often said that the best businesses are started to solve problems that you experience and, while this may be true, it’s too easy to start building a product or solution with only your needs in mind. by Ross Beyeler, founder of Growth Spark.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011.   He sells entirely locally and bids his own work and often provides design assistance for cabinets purchased by homebuilders.    She has designed several new devices that promise to allow arthroscopic hip replacement surgery.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

For some markets you can design a model of your product on a computer and conduct experiments with the computer model to understand whether it will work, long before you actually build it. The Customer Development Process I teach and write about is designed to do just that. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

This represents an outstanding 2,298% growth vs. 2006 (this type of growth seems big but you get used to it when reading business plans is you day job). " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. Small and medium businesses. (2). ► 2010. (5). internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

As a founder you need to prepare yourself to think creatively and independently, because more often than not, conditions on the ground will change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

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. Who You Are: Above all, you need to be both a programmer and designer. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Post navigation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. Just as a refresher.

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