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MARCH 13, 2007

March 14, 2007 10:47 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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MAY 10, 2012

Browsers are starting to trend up again and some online businesses are turning away from apps. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties. Of course not all online businesses will do this. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. developers.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 6:56 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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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

MARCH 1, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 12:50 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

A couple of things I should add - Greg didnt mention the technical challenges they had (scalable complex matching algorithm) and the issues they had with an initial developer. He was asked about how you get a network business going - and it was extremely challenging. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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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. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.

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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. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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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. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:14 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:27 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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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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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. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

At this I nitial P ublic O ffering your company raised money for its use in expanding the business. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple, profound and unappreciated today: VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses. And to be honest, for four years, these were the new rules.

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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 Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. event I did last fall.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. It’s what my textbook on Customer Development describes. I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. Customer Development) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions.&# Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. In a startup it doesn’t matter if you’re 100% right 100% of the time.

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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. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. 50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. Business Plan vs Business Model – [link].

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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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MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. In these markets it’s all about invention risk.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Their top priorities will be establishing and measuring key performance indicators, improving data quality and choosing the right business intelligence and analysis tools. A few months ago, Business Week did a piece on this role. If you want to read more, check out Wangs article for the Harvard Business Review.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount.

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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. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. “Oh 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. Order Here.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static. This time it was serious.

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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

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. A Stanford professor was at Harvard in World War II because the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development thought Terman was the best radio engineer in the country. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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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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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 ? SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.]

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