SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from. Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. How do you account for the charge backs to the business units or functional areas?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Having worked on eHarmony where the intake is 2 hours and was completely counter to the prevailing trend, I think the analyst missed the point. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. I really think MyShape has a great concept.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

He was asked about how you get a network business going - and it was extremely challenging. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. But the purpose of this post is what happens when a founder (or large company CEO) finds a better business model.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. This is something Ive always wondered about. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Whats interesting is that Ive been seeing opportunities to use social marketing for businesses that typically target Time Poor audiences. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Does this mean that theyll have lower response rates?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

And with all of that they had gone broke, out of business and into Chapter 11. Their guess was that they would find value in the high margin graphics business. The two other players in the add-on graphics business, Radius and RasterOps, had a combined 90% market share. Why I was interested was equally obscure. I took the job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small business and startup tips: track your own customer service data – [link]. 6 traits of successful small businesses, from Entrepreneur Magazine – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small business and startup tips: track your own customer service data – [link]. 6 traits of successful small businesses, from Entrepreneur Magazine – [link]. – [link].

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. They are tied to and influence the strategy/direction of the business. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

At least 1/3 of the time the response I get is, “Oh that class stuff was real interesting, but we’re too busy building the prototype. Reply Raj , on August 14, 2009 at 2:45 am Said: Steve, This post has probably triggered a paradigm shift in the way that I’ve been approaching my startup.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

The growth process is designed to be a positive feedback loop, to find small wins and optimizations across the business and then compound those over time as fast as possible.” (via CXL Live). If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. It Starts with the Product. before continuing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Reply steveblank , on May 29, 2009 at 8:58 pm Said: David, Technical differentiation is a business school checklist. Regards, Brian Reply Denis , on May 30, 2009 at 9:46 am Said: The question basically boils down to “how do you defend yur business – through marketing, technology, both or neither?&#.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly. And the German night fighters had their own on-board radar. No kidding.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. Businesses are really configuring the way their sites work to adapt to social.”. Enterprise.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A vibrant business has many marketing channels, on and offline. Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. 1 The business card – scatter far and wide. You can’t leave an e-business card scattered about in various locations can you?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” Do you have thoughts on specifically how to restructure startups? Order Here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

While their titles might be what their business cards said, titles were not their job – at least in any marketing department I was running. It wasn’t measured by how busy you were, it was measured by results. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Up until now all the graphics board companies supplied “technology”, and it was up to the customers to figure out which of these arcane specs was best for their business. Our strategy was to resegment a hardware business ? We needed to come up with a playbook with completely new rules, then execute relentlessly and with urgency.

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