Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. The New Exits.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Participating Companies: - Agnik – data analytics company for distributed, mobile, and embedded environments. - Echoer – finalist at the Le Web competition. - Moviecom.tv – Red Herring Global 2011 Winner. - Megawatt Hour – decision-making platform for energy purchasing. - WishMash – The social wishlist platform.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. million, and Coats says they didn’t close the fund until November, 2011. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. Fred Hutch Spinoff Blaze Bioscience Pulls in $5M For ‘Tumor Paint’. View More in Seattle ›. View More in Cleantech ›.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2011

This course takes students through the process of conceiving, creating, managing, and growing their own business. The goal is to provide a solid background of important concepts for anybody starting or running a business. Congratulations to Spring 2011 Graduates! The core curriculum has been taught at the University of Oregon.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook Year End 2011 Awards. 6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. December 28, 2011 by Sarah Kessler. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Trending Stories.

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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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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Startup America Partnership is offering a collection of real business tools and resources, mostly web-based, to help startups and small businesses do better. This is the White-House-sponsored small business program announced a year ago. Here’s what I wrote then on may main blog: The Obama White House [Feb.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2012

Kyle Judah and his partner Jason Woodward started their online venture, RecoVend , in August 2011 after seeing how inefficient, offline and noncollaborative the buying process was at colleges and universities. Through a business plan competition, Arch Grants selects promising startups to receive $50,000. Kyle Judah.

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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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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Business Services. Web Design. Business Tools. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Again, on our call I talked about the company I helped with their business plan template marketing. The “finished story” here wasn’t the obvious – a finished business plan. It was having raised money successfully with the polished and professional business plan. It was farther removed than that. startupcto

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2014

It started out back in 2011 when we had a hunch that we were a really good fit for QuickBooks and Intuit in an integration. So the next step was in the SDK connecting the web connector, again, more positive feedback. What we did was launch a minimum viable product in April of 2011 which we called LivePlan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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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. software. (10).

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

» March 04, 2011.  After a half hour of web searching I found Khosla Ventures investing in essentially the same thing - to the tune of $10MM or so.  After a half hour of web searching I found Khosla Ventures investing in essentially the same thing - to the tune of $10MM or so. November 2011. March 2011.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Early Stage Web Start-Up Seeking Developers. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Post navigation. ← Previous. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. You can read more about that here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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www.startupsmart.com.au

MARCH 8, 2011

Home Planning Business ideas Business planning How to start a. How to set up a sales plan for 2011 Latest Features Articles : Don’t worry about the ‘e’ word Will journalists care about your start-up? Register | Login ); Editors Note Do you understand the media and have a great story to tell? This full day.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

 If you intend to improve literacy around the world with a web application, do the markets most in need have broadband access?  If you intend to improve literacy around the world with a web application, do the markets most in need have broadband access? November 2011. September 2011. March 2011.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Many failing startups currently have shaky business plans, poor user interfaces and a lack of understanding that a jack of all trades (Model, View, Controller or, classically, db, web, program) may well be a master of none. I also find that things like Rails books that make application building look easy don’t help.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

March 10, 2011. Our vision for LaunchBit centers around helping people get their web business ideas off the ground. Preferably it will be prior entrepreneurship experience but if not, bring connections, marketing and business development skills, funding, etc. Mar 10, 2011. Mar 10, 2011. Mar 10, 2011.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 29, 2011

has received the Babson College 2011 Student Business of the Year Award. Founders: * John Xie ’11 built his first website at the age of 9 and started his first business, Cirtex, at the age of 13. Today, Cirtex is a leading web hosting provider hosting over 100,000 domains globally. From Babson College : Min.us

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Maybe you could get v1.0 Don’t bother?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" Stephen Pitt-Francis • Jan 5, 2011 Why?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. What crowdsourcing can do for small business – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A Surprising Business Plan. Small Businesses Spending More And More On Social Media – [link]. Wow – $99,344,382 pledged on Kickstarter in 2011.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Prior to Sitebeam, for 10 years, Silktide was a web design agency. In 2011, Oliver again took a plunge and killed off half of their original business in order to focus on Sitebeam, one of Silktide’s products. Within one year, they experienced 3x the growth of their original web agency model.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Cofounder Audience 142

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I just need a co-founder to web enable it!" Reply Josh Strike says: January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am Tristan, the only thing I disagree with on an emotional level is the NDA business. Obviously if the only thing they’re “protecting&# is a business model, then you’re right. Totally agree.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Under pressure from Congress, the SEC agreed to review its regulations and their effect on capital formation in spring 2011. Crowdfunding received a boost when the Obama administration endorsed crowdfunding in September 2011. Crowdfunding Under the JOBS Act. such other information as the SEC may prescribe.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The theory is that if they trust you and your business plan enough to give you $5M, then you have probably created something that is already worth $5M. Web startups, which I presume is the kind of main interest amongst your readers, can be started completely without VC's. Many web 2.0 I think that is great.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

That was in 2011, late 2010. million in total sales last year, and over forty percent of our total business was just our subscription service. See Also The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription Business to Succeed. Did you have experience with web design? We called it a Picky Bar. That was how we started.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Although we got some early traction, we were unable to prevent a bankruptcy from happening in October 2011. In November 2010 we launched Whatser : an application that made it easy to get personal suggestions on where to go such as bars, restaurants, galleries, shops and other spots based on your location, interest and social graph.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

20 Aug 2011 | 33 Comments | posted by Peter Chee | in entrepreneurship , funding. The elements of the decision making process are 1) Idea; 2) Business Plan Preparation; 3) Domain Expertise; 4) Commitment and Risk; 5) Responsibilities. Business Plan 2 3 6 8 16. Puget Sound Business Journal. 2009 2010 2011.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm. If you want to build your business based on the edge cases of success, go right along. Very good post.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. No investor cares about a business plan. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. How did you find your passion? Do it yourself.

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