Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes. Yuri, one of the things that you make you a great founder is that you have insight others don’t. A Pivot a Week. he’d declare.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. not just Jewish people).

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. I would love to be on your advisory board. And thats where the call for help comes in.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Lucky you’re not the ex-CEO.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

That included my computer teacher back in middle school, my wife, my mom (all of Lucky7 is a tribute to her ), my CEO coach, my co-founders, some of my investors and advisors, and many others?—?it We have over 30 Advisory Board members at data.world, and I had a similar number of advisors at Bazaarvoice. lots of them.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously. SKMurphy » Common Questions about Advisory Boards - Jun 2, 2009 [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. Although I wish I could take credit for these pivots, the reality is that they were not caused by my singular insight or that of my other co-founders.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

As a founder my first job was Customer Discovery – getting out of the building to listen to customers and see whether our understanding of what problems customers had was correct, and if so whether our product as spec’d would solve that problem. Founder Too. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" Establish a customer advisory board. Most of the people building our product werent themselves target customers. So there was simply no substitute for seeing actual customers with the product, live.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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venturehacks.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Some entrepreneurs set up quarterly advisory board meetings and that probably works well for them. But we find savvy entrepreneurs tend to be transactional—they ping their advisors as needed and skip the advisory board meetings. SKMurphy » Common Questions about Advisory Boards. // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm. [.]

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Â Search for apps tools.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

I got helped with talent search, boot camp for small startups, microloan…the list goes on and on. We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. The answer isn’t always VC’s or angels.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. and search for its availability as a corporate name, domain name and trademark (all separate inquiries). Advisory board agreements.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Customer discovery turns founders’ initial hypotheses about their market and customers into facts. The process searches for problem/solution fit: “Have we found a problem lots of people want us to solve (or a need they want us to fill)?” They’re actively searching for a solution and have a timetable for finding it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. With accompanying slides: Continuous Deployment View more presentations from TimothyFitz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching. More importantly, the experience led to some soul-searching. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. We’ve also built a large Advisory Board, from DJ Patil to Kelly Wright. It’s track that I hired one of our best-ever team members at Bazaarvoice out of: Jacob Salamon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I think that if a web founder would come to me asking for an investment talking about how he's coding an immensly scalable, perfectly designed system, I will throw him out in an instant. should the test subjects be part of the customer advisory board? path hence urgently pushing to release asap.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Follow PandoDaily: Search. Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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www.davidgcohen.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Cohen Thoughts from a geeky ex-hacker turned investor and founder of TechStars. Start learning about local companies that you respect and consider seeking out their founders or key executives. Imagine how good it must feel to be asked for advice from a smart, dedicated, and motivated founder like you. Hi, I'm David G.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advisory Board. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Along the way I also learned yet another way entrepreneurs see the world differently from their investors. Carpe Diem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. LSC: What is your response to some of the people on Hacker News that questioned the ethics of taking this approach?

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