Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Keep in mind this is still several years before the IBM PC and DOS. A question in my mind: were you working that hard because you enjoyed the work, or were you working that hard because you enjoyed the act of working? Reply Burnout « Entrepreneurial Activism , on July 28, 2009 at 10:13 pm Said: [.] Reply Jeff K. ,

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. Activity From People I Follow. ITA Software.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. During the first few years of a startup you can’t work on all the ideas that come to mind, that is why it is best to keep a journal, just add little notes to the idea to keep them in the back burner. Stay active on sales calls, talk with sales people, read all the RFPs.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When that happened I just updated the one file, rather than dig through my blog archives to find all the articles that contained that link, which would be a nightmare job. What’s even better is once you install and activate the plugin, it will retroactively apply affiliate links to keywords on your old blog posts if you want it to.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

and other activities. But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. AineMcGuire if you wouldnt mind, please shoot me a good email to use for you, and Ill send you the meetup info. Granted, the above scenario doesn’t take into account.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Get out there and find activities that attract diverse groups of people. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Finding Your Co-Founders, Sternberg describes the importance of having a nucleus of like-minded, complimentary characters in [.]

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Some free themes are well supported and have similar features to some premium themes ( Atahualpa and Thematic come to mind) and there are many free and premium themes available, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, so let’s take a look at what makes this theme unique. What Is Under The Hood? What Could be Improved?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I was also actively pursuing raising VC funds with the help of a very talented and well connected friend. In my mind, speed is a feature for all web apps so this was unacceptable, especially since it was used to run live, public websites. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

These decisions are critical to the success of any high-engagement product, and they take place entirely inside the minds of customers. Customers who saw the video were materially more likely to be active customers of IMVU ten days later. But, unconsciously, it had affected the positioning of IMVU in their minds.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Something active has to happen to destroy this culture. It’s probably the best leading indicator of when it is time to move on and find the next challenge. Can people really take that stress for years, decades? Will they not get really sick of the stained carpet? The unhealthy posture?

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? What you SHOULD do is make sure that your other activities are SEO-friendly. So don’t actively do SEO, but do do things that will bring you SEO benefit like outreach to relevant communities, viral blog posts, embeddable content etc.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

There are rare cases where an apps mind-blowing functionality can override any other concerns but otherwise users tend to make a decision about an applications usefulness to them within the first few moments of using it. Bond cautions teams to always develop and design with the end user in mind. See Also Elegant.ly

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

And they have channeled all this into whatever activity they could find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship. With that in mind, I really enjoyed this article. They have learned to function in a permanent state of chaos. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

If you dig into the archives of this blog, you won’t find any articles specifically about how to write a good headline. This is why I feel confident enough to write this tutorial now, when it’s so fresh in mind mind. It’s a good headline format because it opens a door in the readers mind. It just works.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. And if your manage isn’t in their right mind, it’s probably time to find another job. 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career – Rob Walling Actively pursuing a couple of them already, blogging being one of them.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Active VCs are doing dozens of deals a year. This country has been self-destructing with a lot of non-productive activities, like useless internet apps and speculating on real estates. Tags: startupcto. Think Again. Share and [.]

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Since then, the bug hunt has been on : security researchers have been actively finding lots of ways in the Ruby on Rails code base, and in related code bases, to cause the application to deserialize YAML which is in some way under the control of the attacker. See next question.) These applications may be compromised already.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. I believe that if you practice TDD, continuous integration, and active refactoring from the start, you can write maintainable code in any language. Thanks Again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a secondary benefit from these activities: to remind customers that IMVU exists, and encourage them to come back to the site. 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!"

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At Smart Bear the biggest reason people used our software is (a) active development, (b) we answered the phone and fixed their bugs, (c) we always had more features because of (a) and (b). How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob (tags: software business) [.] #35 31 Jason Cohen on 08.11.09 at 9:05 pm [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

With those criteria in mind, let me propose a solution that has served me well in several startups. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Its unrealistic to expect everyone on the team to understand scalability in detail. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

A dimension can be a source where they came from (a country, URL, etc.) , technical information like the browser they are using or their activity on the site (pages they looked at, images they opened). When you have found your most profitable segments, you can keep them in mind when doing split testing. Use rel=”canonical”.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space? Tags: startupcto. Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared!

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Posted by Jeff Atwood on April 13th, 2010 Filed under background 28 Comments « New 10k Feature: Inline Tagging Changes to Stack Exchange » Steve Wortham says: April 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm Well done Jeff. What if I don’t mind using a username and password for every site? Tags: startupcto. United States License.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While we certainly recommend that any small business maintain a blog , it doesnt have to be the main focus of your companys Wordpress-based Website, thanks to the multitude of themes that are designed with products and businesses in mind. In my mind, that makes it a good post.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While we certainly recommend that any small business maintain a blog , it doesnt have to be the main focus of your companys Wordpress-based Website, thanks to the multitude of themes that are designed with products and businesses in mind. In my mind, that makes it a good post.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

For the next 18 years that thought was never far from my mind. In many ways I find I’m getting too caught up in the minute to minute often time wasting activities that are likely waste anyway. Watching her drive the kids around and managing their activities seemed like a full-time job to me. What Will Your Epitaph Say?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

Bear in mind this method doesn’t work with all business ideas. Your potential customers need to be actively looking for whatever you are planning to offer. I actually needed such a service myself when I was actively working on my facebook business because I was looking for someone who could moderate my forum and games.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

Bear in mind this method doesn’t work with all business ideas. Your potential customers need to be actively looking for whatever you are planning to offer. I actually needed such a service myself when I was actively working on my facebook business because I was looking for someone who could moderate my forum and games.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

This really opens up my entrepreneurial mind!! im sure this article will be the catalyst for many successful projects that have been residing in the minds just waiting to be built. Jake Mogul (2010-06-20) # Turns out great minds think alike! thank you for elucidation! j Colleen Keene (2010-06-19) # Incredible post. expectation.

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