SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Search Engineer 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. “There’s something going on in LA.”

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. The road to business success is filled with challenges and frustrations that most aspiring entrepreneurs never even imagined.

Entrepreneur 436

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Operations Social Media 436

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. No Problem! Storage was expensive.

Engineer 60

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. get the attention of the market they choose. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

Las Vegas 243

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Arizona Montana 243

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

Every year, new startup entrepreneurs attempt to launch a business on the leanest budget possible. If you want them to be discerning and choosy when selecting a new acquisition for the company, demonstrate that behavior yourself. Choose your acquisitions carefully. Choose your acquisitions carefully and add them one at a time.

Lean 158

Lean Technical Review Startup Acquisition 158

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. So what are the biggest barriers startup entrepreneurs experience in their route to achieve long-term growth? Or is it?

Startup 127

Startup Retention Acquisition Agile 127

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Todd Branchflower took my Lean LaunchPad class having been entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. True to his word, fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching computer engineering at the Air Force Academy. ——-.

Lean 262

Lean Technical Review Acquisition Software Review 262

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. Many entrepreneurs don’t consider acquisition entrepreneurship because it doesn’t seem as exciting as building something brand-new.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

If you get to know the basics of user experience (also called customer journey ), website design, calls to action, and target audiences , you’ll improve your conversion rates and lower your cost per acquisition. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). That sort of exposure requires search engine optimization, or SEO.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. In this episode, she’s sharing how she’s helped many entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses.

Entrepreneur 79

Entrepreneur Technical Review Cofounder Valuation 79

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. So I spend an inordinate amount of time with entrepreneurs focused on payback. End of story.

Metrics 150

Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Expand core competency and solidify strengths.

Non-Compete 262

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 262

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Do you have a plan in place yet?

Hockey Stick 265

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Toward that end, they have created two products. Discuss.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Experienced entrepreneurs We’ve got speakers who are justifiably respected by a lot of entrepreneurs. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

Lean 165

Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Ultimately, Nokia’s difficulties will turn out to be good news for Finnish entrepreneurs.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. business entrepreneur investor Maxwell Wessel Silicon Valley startup location' Marty Zwilling.

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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. As Abhishek Rungta from Kolkata pointed out today, "Entrepreneurs do not work out the details of their ideas." It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. It needs to be chiseled.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. get the attention of the market they choose. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

Silicon Valley 149

Silicon Valley Las Vegas Arizona Montana 149

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Entrepreneurs have a strong sense of self-reliance, and so the idea of asking for help isn’t on their radar. For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff.

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

After this initial success, Airbnb then reverse-engineered Craiglist forms with a tool that allowed users to repost their listings: By communicating benefits and removing barriers to success, they gave users a reason to get involved. Acquisition. Let’s look at each stage of the framework and how to use it to drive and measure growth.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. In a startup cluster (Silicon Valley, Beijing, Tel Aviv) a failed entrepreneur is known as “experienced.”

Government 308

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 308

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. And our course advisor, Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP.

Lean 385

Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? This stuff is ‘zero gravity.’

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This requires solid funding to pull off, it’s a huge risk, and will take a lot of time for most rookie entrepreneurs. I simply needed to ignore the perfection impulse and focus on the business engines that were really important. When I say business engines, I mean components that keep a machine working.

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Acquisition Startup Engineer Metrics 93

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. 1- Recruit female executives recruitment.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 122

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In addition to these data points Ali identifies seven key traits that these “super founders” possess, and I believe that these traits are essential for any entrepreneur who wants to build a successful startup. “extreme resilience” – Successful entrepreneurs are able to persevere through challenges and setbacks.

Founder 89

Founder Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation 89

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). And before he was an entrepreneur, when he was at a foundry, things were going really well, and he was promoted to foreman.

Detroit 120

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS). I was impressed by Hardi as an entrepreneur in our first meeting there in the Seedcamp mentoring sessions. GrabCAD also had very high engagement in terms of the % of engineers actually sharing large, complicated CAD files in the system.

Boston 154

Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. On the other hand, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. Photo by nazreth. Discuss.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904? A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Do you have a plan in place yet?

Hockey Stick 307

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307

Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

A week before that, my co-founder and I attended the Boss Babes ATX WORK Conference, along with hundreds of other female creatives, and entrepreneurs where we met a potential founder, who then connected us to a restaurant owner. WP Engine, Bumble, Kendra Scott?—?but If you’re a female entrepreneur in Austin, this is a must-join.

Austin 57

Austin Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 57

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315