Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. First check to seed?—?congrats Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will New CXO advisors join?—?

Stealth 79

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. He agreed to talk to us as he packed his office, and we followed him down the street as he went to get a haircut. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were going to be guessing.

North Carolina 125

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

Technical Review 170

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Advisory Board. We discussed (for ~1hr) how to approach getting the first set of enterprise customers. He was having too much fun at Sun and turned me down.). Carpe Diem.

Technology 191

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scalablestartup.berkeley.edu

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

There are advisors who are recruited to provide the startup with technology guidance or product or solution input, and advisors who are recruited to provide the startup with market strategy or introductions to customers in a particular market segment of interest. A company can have more than one advisory board.

Advisory Board 40

Advisory Board San Francisco Startup Bandwidth 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Some startups avoid getting customer feedback for precisely this reason: they are afraid that if early reactions are negative, theyll be "forced" to abandon their vision. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 167

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

for example, check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids” , and I suggest hiring some great evangelists as full-time and part-time employees and also as Advisory Board members?—?check check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1 on that front).

Networking 48

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