Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Ok, I get a lot of these. I was feeling pretty old.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The future of the Internet is video. Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s true that many of today’s young entrepreneurs grew up in the age of the computer and the internet. Despite having an understanding of just how powerful the internet is, many of today’s young entrepreneurs are unaware of the internet’s impact on their business and business aspirations.

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blog.wepay.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Non-engineers are not “designers” by default. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. He found that consumers were often overwhelmed by the amount of choice for different merchandise available on the Internet.

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blog.wepay.com

APRIL 28, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Non-engineers are not “designers” by default. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again….

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. So much for timing. Blew my mind.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. By September that year they would launch what would be one of the first crowdfunding sites on the Internet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Our vision was that just as the PC was revolutionizing the business market, we were going to do the same for scientists and engineers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I’m not sure whether it’s 10 years from now or 50 years from now, but at some point in the medium to long term future we’ll cease talking about “internet” companies in any meaningful sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Binpress is a discovery engine, and as such, they are using PPC and SEO campaigns, promoting through other coding marketplaces, and creating partnerships in order to drive traffic to the site. They also have an in-house affiliate program for coders and Internet marketers. - A marketable landing page.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

An SEO audit is simply the process of identifying issues on your website that could be limiting your ability to rank on Google or other search engines. A poor site experience makes it less visible in search engines. Many of which offer free versions, which for small and medium enterprises, are great options for keeping costs down.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. You didn’t need a hardcore engineer to set up a website for you, but you still could not do it on your own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. I was an engineer on the engineering team. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. Startups are companies. Startups aspire to become big companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. I want to add one last idea, even though I recognize it is controversial, bordering on the boundary between the CTO and VP Engineering. Heres my take.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. Thats where Id like to pick up the discussion.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Bring your questions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

By using a mix of these four strategies for great digital marketing: search advertising, webSite, search engine optimization, and social media. If you haven’t updated your website since 2010, do it now. Search Engine Optimization. Images can help sell your business, and they also rank in search engines. Website Tips.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Looking to another part of the world, a number of analysts are betting that China, the most populous country on the planet, will take up some demographic slack and be the growth engine of the future. The internet of everything is on its way. Turpin was named president of IMD in July 2010. I wouldn’t be so sure about that.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Small is beautiful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Why does it work?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Sunday, August 15, 2010. An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Real Advice.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Gerard started off by saying that anyone looking for a customer on the Internet is a potential customer for this business. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, It was written by Sarah Milstein in collaboration with kaChing CEO Andy Rachleff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. Thats possible now, and it means that the historical ratio of QA to engineering is going to have to change (on the other hand, QA is now a lot more interesting of a job). Completely necessary.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer.

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