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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Enjoyed this post? The Holy Grail of.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Taking My Class. Is it Whole Foods or is it 7-Eleven.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Will new, native distribution channels emerge? as a bit of a precursor to the golden age of software based businesses that emerged in the latter half of the 2010’s, a good 10 years after the Web2.0 And both founders and investors are grappling with similar questions that were top of mind during early Web 2.0: was long gone.

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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

They sold their product through the computer retail channel, something I knew nothing about. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. The first step was to recruit a new management team. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about.

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Catch Them On Thanksgiving, Convert Them Into Customers By Christmas

YoungUpstarts

Catchiness atop of truly informative text, sight- and sound-infused message is a good start; then comes accurately targeted promotional efforts through social channels including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and, to a lesser extent, LinkedIn.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. This is more challengine than it appears, and method of insulation is supporting varied input channels. Look forward to your next post a usual!