SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

One of my company CEO’s recently described his rule for acquisition success, and it resonated with me as a great goal for planning during acquisition exercises. This CEO states that he has made it work twice when acquiring companies, and that is enough for him to make it his rule for all future acquisitions.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 5, 2023

The first rule: 10/40: One of my company CEOs recently described his rule for acquisition success, and it resonated with me as a great goal for planning during acquisition exercises. This CEO states that he has made it work twice when acquiring companies, and that is enough for him to make it his rule for all future acquisitions.

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Acquisition .Net Retention Sales 62

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You have this tension between on the one side being a micro-manager (by which great people won’t want to work with you) or being hands off (and having quality lapses or team alignment issues).

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CTO Hire Entrepreneur Technical Review Leadership 385

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hire Only the Best Employee Fits Another major expense your lean startup will have to carefully manage is labor. 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. Don’t be afraid to negotiate the lease.

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Lean Technical Review Startup Acquisition 158

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Whether managing a financial investment company, running a manufacturing facility, or operating a pharmaceutical firm, the core health of your organization’s network is of pivotal importance in maintaining business operations. Managing network maintenance proactively goes a long way in reducing unnecessary maintenance.

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Networking Hiring Technical Review Acquisition 125

The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

It is an ongoing process where you need to keep constant tabs on important numbers such as organic visits, conversions, and lead acquisition rates. Reputation management platforms like the RepCheckup software are quite useful for tracking online reviews and preventing negative comments that could put your brand in a bad light.

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Customer Marketing Reputation Software Review 165

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

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year.

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Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? In pure web businesses where the headcount doesn’t need to grow as customer acquisition scales, it is also very useful to look customer acquisition costs without the headcount costs.)

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

Funding Follows Growth and Acquisitions The big fundraising event in this space in the first part of 2021 was Camunda and their $100 million series B round. Acquisitions like this start to make the math for Camunda’s fundraise make a lot of sense. Camunda is an engineering organization at its heart?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering. An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield. How profitable is my product or service?

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. PR and reputation management can be huge in getting your brand established. . Growth is all about customer acquisition – the process of attracting new people to the brand. .

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Startup Retention Acquisition Agile 127

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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate.

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

Hockey Stick 265

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Description of the business entity you plan to form.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2021

These can be copywriting, search engine optimization, advertising, design, and other services. . We’ve worked with four agencies ( SEO , paid acquisition, conversion copywriting, design) and made some costly mistakes. The story repeated itself with a paid acquisition consultant. That was taking too long.

Small Business 141

Small Business Technical Review SEO Acquisition 141

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. First, one of the big things we’re doing is adopting digital engineering as our standard. And it’s more than just the digital engineering of the thing.

Technology 284

Technology United States Iraq Operations 284

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services. by Kenneth H.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Finance Raleigh Mezzanine 124

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Fleetwise – Vehicle Fleet Management. All the presentations are worth a watch.

Lean 385

Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

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

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies. Eric Ries will interview him.

Lean 165

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine. Metering.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

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 some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

Government 308

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 308

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam. Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Support Programs.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From recruitment to CRM, project management to marketing, there’s a tool for everything be it for managing work, tech stack , etc. also lets you chart your product roadmaps by setting a product strategy, collaborating with the product and engineering teams, and creating visual roadmaps. It is highly secure. Mighty Networks.

Software Review 113

Software Review Startup Azure SEO 113

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Enterprise apps rework everyday functions of the business into streamlined processes that can be managed via user-friendly apps. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. Enterprise Apps.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

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. Here’s how that happened. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Final Problem Statement: How should the US manage China’s dominance in solar panels? ” Team 3: Acquisition. Original Problem Statement: What combinations of technologies and international financial relationships should the US prioritize to mitigate climate change? If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Technical Review 353

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 353

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Memo to CEOs And Founders: Share The Love Consider the proceeds of a $50-million acquisition for a 100-person company that has raised $14 million with a typical liquidation preference: Because of the liquidation preference, the investors get $14 million right off the top. Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66

Early Stage 391

Early Stage Equity CTO Hire Sweat Equity 391

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. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Note to Finland – lighten up.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Beyond that he (and thus engineering) could simply tell me, “No.” Senior management feels undermined. I did this.

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Startup CTO Hire Sales Leadership 150

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. Three Solutions. 1 is measurement.

Technical Review 322

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

Hockey Stick 307

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307