Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. BTW, I personally would _never_ “find&# a founder over the web. Thanks Steve!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Seven Must-See Web Design Videos and Presentations – [link]. 50 Examples of Black in Web Design – Black is Beautiful! 50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. 40 Amazing Web Apps for Freelancers – [link]. Italian Web Designs Made to Inspire – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. “ nobody wins if you go out of business&# – On Pricing – [link].

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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. January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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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

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. 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. What plan says that?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Tuesday, August 17, 2010. 14 comments: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 dpickett says: Great post, man! Those that don’t embrace appropriate levels of pessimism are left saying “Technical cofounders don’t exist” Tuesday, August 17, 2010 james pruett says: I had a technical cofounder. Now you go: Name (required).

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joel.is

MARCH 8, 2011

Lessons shared by Joel Gascoigne , a fledgling entrepreneur and contract web developer currently based in Birmingham, UK. What happens next is painful, predictable, avoidable, yet built into to every startup business plan. Steve Blank often talks about this: Unless you were incredibly lucky most of your assumptions are wrong.

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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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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com , an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web. Your Money Questions Answered Mint.com on 07/07/2010 0 comments How Much Should I Tip? link] 1 like lucyfer 460 days ago duh-er… and what are this guys great business risks and achievments? It’s freakin’ 2010.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. How did the site come about?

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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

JUNE 25, 2018

Co-working spaces have grown an impressive 89 percent in the last 12 months, and 300 percent since 2010. 80 percent of entrepreneurs funded their business out of pocket. Our team of over 210,000 creatives is ready and waiting to handle your business’s logo design , web design , and more – everything you need to build a great brand.

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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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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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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). Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web.

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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. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Among those places, both on and off the web, are highly trafficked jobsites like Monster.com or careerbuilder , and specialty sites like TheLadders.com which appeal to certain niche populations of job-seekers. Related posts: Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010! Photo: hmcadams.

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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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Co-working spaces have grown an impressive 89 percent in the last 12 months, and 300 percent since 2010. 80 percent of entrepreneurs funded their business out of pocket. Our team of over 210,000 creatives is ready and waiting to handle your business’s logo design , web design , and more – everything you need to build a great brand.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

By definition, a Pivot, is a change in the company’s strategy or business model when things aren’t exactly working out according to the business plan. The goal, is to find a scalable and repeatable business model (in other words, a way to consistently make money over the course of time).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As you search: Customer Development observes that when you start your company, all you and your business plan have are hypotheses, not facts –and that the founders are the ones who need to get out of the building to turn these hypotheses into customer data. Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2013

When Helen and Rayton launched Ume Grill in 2010, they started from scratch. ” Even so, the two partners remember that phase of their business fondly: “It was like serving dinner to 50 friends every night,” Helen said. And in order to secure a loan, she needed a business plan. Community-centric cart.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In October 2010, our new textbook will become available. Mannie was working for Professor Josh Lerner at Harvard Business School before she returned to China to teach these subjects. In recent years, many universities have followed, teaching venture capital as an elective course. The book has three parts and a total of 12 chapters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Some recent trend posts on my blog include There's a Trend To Spot In Groupon's Growth Rate , Customer Service and the Social Web , SaaS Enabled BPO and Near-shoring and U.S. Next, Michael Issa, from the San Francisco, CA, pitched Quipu Applications , which is a cloud based business plan financial modeling application.

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Up and Running

MAY 24, 2010

My friends at Batch Blue Software are holding a superhero contest this week, with prizes including a customizable build-it-yourself bicycle, web apps, coffee, and a small business library that includes my Plan As You Go Business Plan Book. Here’s what they say: We know small business owners are super human.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site. Enloop – Automatically creates customized business plans are prepared, on-the-fly, complete with all text and financial forecasts.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

VC Cafe: What was the point where you decided, there’s no point in running with the old business plan? Ian Small: The consumer-facing tokbox.com business is healthy with 2 million registered users, and has continued to grow since we launched OpenTok in late November 2010.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. A deal typically begins with an introductory phone call from the lead investor. We get what we need and put it through our analytical process,” He says. Touch Press, the iPad, and the New Golden Age of Multimedia.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2011

Many schools teach entrepreneurship, some have research centers, business plan competitions, and clubs. Stanford is a leading campus when it comes to entrepreneurship and a new seed fund deepens the web of entrepreneurship on campus. There direct deal with ASES is an interesting extension.

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