Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

It also made me understand what kind of support sales people needed from marketing and what marketing programs were wasted motion. It also made me realize that there are times you don’t want any sales people in your company. You need to hire the right type of sales people for the type of market. Were we anything first?

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

No amount of “best viewed with…” badges will stop people from reading and remixing what we write, paint, compose or otherwise create. WYSIWYG editors added their own formatting or layout to individual pages, and over time different people updated the website their own way. Wider ranges of text sizes do not fit well.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

As I talked to the head of training and his boss, I pointed out that the clock was ticking down for them, I knew the type of training military maintenance people need , and I had done some informal teaching in the Air Force. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Larry and I went to Michigan at the same time and in fact Larry was briefly a member of the Solar Car Team where I was team leader (I often joke that I'm one of the few people who can say that "Larry Page worked for them."). altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

You want to maximize the number of people who give you their contact information, and gather enough information so a sales person can prioritize who to call first. Many people arrive at a show with a schedule of what they want to see and have little or no time for other booths, so it’s important to get on that schedule.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Improving search is written into the DNA of some of the world’s smartest engineers, and frankly, it’s stupidity on anyone else part to think that junk pages like this will fool them for long: Obviously these are quite extreme cases though – the large majority of SEO people do it right, have high integrity and are gifted, creative marketers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Get out of the building and meet people.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We were amazed by the candor and generosity of many of the writers of these post-mortems. But none of them matter if the product is harder to use, since most people simply won’t care enough or get enough benefit from long-term features if a shorter-term alternative is available. Corporate America could learn from this.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. People will look at you crazy (especially if you left a high paying job to start a company).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for. She was living in a lie with people she hated. Too often people abandon their ethics because “hey the other guys is doing it, I have to to do it to compete.&#

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Jinni isn’t a social network, it’s an internet application designed to fit how people relate to movies and TV.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

A while back, one of the original people helping get RE off the ground left to pursue other options (an amicable split, which is always nice). A number of the people I met were interesting and one or two may hold some promise, but it struck me that these events are pretty much set up to fail from the beginning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

It had 100 people, 18 of them full time faculty, 33 research associates and assistants and 33 other tube technicians, draftsman, machinists, etc. It’s amazing this guy ever slept. tags: startup history) [.] The Applied Electronics portion of the lab was now the size of a small company.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

It was an amazing journey. I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. You find a need in the market, then use other people to create products to meet that need. The reason I’m writing is to say that you were the first “expert&# to catch my attention.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). These Are The 30 Most Creative People In Advertising Under 30 1,006,186 Views. The Middle Class Are Blaming The Wrong People For Their Three Lost Decades 144 Comments. About The Hive » What Smart People Are Reading Right Now. Full Archives. Recommended For You.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This attention is valuable to yet another set of people: namely, the traditional businesses (see above) who are using marketing to grow, and are looking to advertise to new prospects. Because they were collecting truly massive amounts of attention and they had an amazing driver of growth.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Most people think that VC’s won’t throw money away on companies they don’t think will succeed. It’s up to you and the people leading your business to take that chance and make the best of it. People forget that there are some very successful companies out there whose founders built them without a partner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis. 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. As a language, its inelegant. Take mod_perl , for example.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is somewhat amazing since in a startup no facts exist inside the building – only opinions. Yet even if we get the marketing people out from behind their desks into the field, the deck is still stacked against their success. Reply Marcelo , on September 6, 2009 at 1:34 pm Said: Amazing post. Thanks for sharing.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Another reason for stressing the point using diagrams is that many entrepreneurs have realized that since the web provides some amazing new ways to acquire customers at low cost, several new businesses have become possible. And this is before you factor in the failure rate (the percentage of sales people hired that don’t become productive).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

People get used to the rhythm of five whys, and it becomes completely normal to make incremental investments. And youll start to see people from all over the company chime in with interesting suggestions for how you could make things better. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

First, let me say that a big part of the debate comes down to what people actually define as stealth mode. Many people think stealth mode is about locking your team in a room, working through the nights unbeknown to anyone else, and emerging at some point with a fantastic market changing solution to something.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. User Count or Comments – it’s amazing, but simply displaying how many other people are using or have signed in or commented on your site or business raises the perceived value and credibility. Anyways, how can you reduce this risk? Thanks again.

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy. Check it out. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And seconding Benedettos comments on huge type, Rundle said, "People arent blind; you dont need 72-pixel links in Helvetica Bold to attract attention." Task-based design is especially important in web application design because people use your software to get things done, not to browse around and waste time. See Also Elegant.ly

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Ignoring the Red Flags While I had lots of people willing to talk to me, we never really pushed hard to see if any customers were willing to buy and pay for the product before it shipped. Another clue: lots of people said, “We’d try it if you give it to us.” Context here.) The company failed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. But that’s a very small sample, and a different strategy probably makes sense for most people. I love Google. Or Microsoft or IBM.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 27, 2010

There’s no doubt people are inspired by seeing how much money others make (I certainly was before I started earning much online), and for the person sharing their details, it’s great for the ego to talk about how well you are doing. Most people I meet who are millionaires have access to large amounts of people.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? The second is that it’s a slant on an existing product, such as a service that allows other people to lend small amounts of money to others at a more reasonable rate. Blekko’s “closed&# beta had 8,000 people in the test.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

← How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks? Thirdly, chances are that if you performed the study today, the results could easily go in the favour of Kabel Light, since people are simply more used to sans serif typefaces. ← How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks? Site français. Skip to content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Your product has become part of a customers daily ritual, like Facebook has for a lot of people. Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). Put another way, imagine the best case scenario.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Some people make a living out of being virtual assistants and helping busy people with their everyday tasks (such as organizing a meeting, doing some online research, calling someone, etc…) Depending on the skill set and the country of origin, the cost of hiring a virtual assistant can be as low as 5 US$ an hour. cents to do something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I really enjoy reading stories of how people have tackled this problem. This is the main reason most people undertake sharding in the first place. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. That makes it easy for people to visualize.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. Passionate, committed staff have a tendency to rub off on people. There is nothing like a new junior developer who runs circles around everyone to get people hyped up and raise the bar!

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

IT’S AMAZING AND PREDICTIONS ARE >90% ACCURATE. My Objective is to Guide and Motivate people through challenging issues of today’s life like Career/Business/Family/Wealth & Health using Knowledge of SUDERSHAN CHKRA JYOTISH. IT’S AMAZING AND PREDICTIONS ARE >90% ACCURATE. IT’S AMAZING AND PREDICTIONS ARE >90% ACCURATE.

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