Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.)

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Common reason for failure: the reference checking process is underfunded and no one is accountable for demonstrating effectiveness. For each step, list the primary goals, how you measure performance of the activities in the step, and who is accountable. tags: hiring.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Building large-scale web system was a black-magic exercise, which started with buying hardware and building a farm in your basement. It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. Start With Defaults Then Tune the System In 99.9%

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We were sitting in our conference room in our first “system-planning meeting” trying to define the specifications of our new supercomputer and make the trade-offs between what was possible to build, and what customers in this new market would actually want and need.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Not even with bad system architectures. If you create a bitcoin account, I would give you a +1 (actually 0.1 method=post. Technology stack choice for startups. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm. 2 responses. My short answer is: specializing in a single technology only is somewhat risky, as the world keeps changing. Cheers, Ron.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. why didnt the cluster immune system reject it? and so forth.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

It even comes with an ATM card and a pin so they can check their account balance, make deposits, and withdraw funds. The only drawback is the price tag. The Best Children’s ATM: According to the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute, this toy is the best one out there to teach children money management skills. What is it?

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. Ruby on Rails security sucks lolz amirite? Well, no to the nuance. Was anyone actually compromised?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Granted, the above scenario doesn’t take into account. the accounting to make sure the numbers all add up. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. the legal acumen to stay on the right side of the law.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

go to both www.elance.com www.rentacoder.com create user accounts and list your project. While watching your emails Pete I was looking out to see whether you had improved your system since last winter, but I am sorry to say that I don’t see any evidence that you have made any changes. Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Ill talk about those goals, and then propose a system that I believe serves them well. Note that most key-based partitioning systems do badly on this criteria. A URL-based sharding system Start by thinking of every kind of data in your application as associated with some entity. Give each entity a name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. If you could buy a higher chess ranking or, worse, simply grow it by logging more hours, that would ruin the system for everyone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

So when people started using Apaches module system to build better web application platforms, it was a natural that theyd try to make the system more efficient. In that system, the first time you loaded a script to handle a page, the whole script (as well as associated data) were kept resident in memory.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

For a simple system the process outlined in this post should take you a month. Your mock-up is the first stage of building a real understanding of what your system has to do. It will tell the developer exactly what your system should do. When out-sourcing, the second option is always cheaper, faster and lower risk.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Full Archives. Your Account. Some Of The Most Important Gadgets Of The Year Will Be Announced This Week (And Were Not Just Talking About The iPhone 5). JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Clusterstock.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

For example, I introduced a level system. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

For example, I introduced a level system. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry.

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www.buzzfeed.com

AUGUST 16, 2012

Branch, a Free-Floating Comment/Discussion System. 17,980 Views · Tagged: , design , internet. Please validate your account to contribute content. Allowed HTML Tags: ). Description (Allowed HTML Tags: ). Description (Allowed HTML Tags: ). Create a New Account › Reset Password.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Someone who will show up one hour a week and give you feedback on every release may never take out their credit card and put their own business at risk by using your system. Focusing on a small set of objectives will allow you to learn quickly and fail things out of the system that won’t help your business. nielr1 Totally agree.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Prior to launch, the only expensive professional services which you’ll buy will be your legal advice and accountancy services. Mock-up - build a mock-up of the system you want; each screen in the mock-up must contain the information and navigation that you want the final system to contain. Why bootstrap?

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

As you can see from these meta stats , Google is by far our largest OpenID provider at 61% of all registered accounts. So our cross-site user account matching now works this way: Match by GUID. This is something we generate and assign during account association, so it’s a perfect fingerprint. This was (and is) huge.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Tags: development , enterprise , web services Subscribe to this blog Print They havent put their press release on a web page anywhere as far as I can tell but WS-I ("Web Services Interoperability Organization") has finally run out of runway and will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF. Goodbye, WS-I. startupcto

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Time vs. Money At one point during college I had $6 in my checking account. Saves your users time – Until they want to use a competing product and they have a neigh on impossible time exporting their data from your proprietary system. and even Windows and Mac systems sometimes need workarounds. 50 on a slice of pizza.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Operations staying in Netflix data centers include "most internal IT that scales with employee count, legacy stuff, DVD shipping systems. account sign-up and billing systems," Cockcroft said. It would have also meant hiring any number of systems administrators and database managers. Tags: startupcto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

AdWords accounts also include graphs and performance data so you can track what’s working and edit your ads accordingly. For businesses interested in accounts for more than 50 users and additional capability, Google charges $50 per user per year for the Premier Edition. Have you used some of these resources?

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

From the video (starting about 2:15): On Thursday (Sept 18), at 11AM the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., The Treasury opened up its window to help and pumped a $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Accountant - Business taxes, especially if you have a home office, are easy to get wrong. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. The above list covers most of our expenses with the exception of a couple of big ones, rent and accounts receivables.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. Is is tracked on the basis of account or device?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! What you find is that ongoing development, as with any legacy system, is much slower than green field development. tags: startups) [.] #32 18 Chandan on 11.20.08

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

No phone system. What if you are working on a messaging system and having your friends and family help you test it. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. No legal muck.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Account managers can tier customers. High-value accounts are rumored to get more attention, the rest are purported to get little to none. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. Bookmark the permalink.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: “A company creates an account, then creates a new project with a title and description. The system counts how many words are in each document. Exactly what did the system do? If theyve been here before, it takes them to their account page. Include people in a story, using the terms you use. What happens next?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). How to Archive Past Tests? Smart organizations archive their test results and plan their approach to testing systematically. What to Test to Improve Our Chances of Winning? How Long to A/B Test?

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