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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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). startupcto

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

You can play with the spreadsheets in two ways. Note: if you are getting a “too many connections” error, try another search to refresh the scripts. Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Play spooky music here. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Or if you have kids, it will get asked when you’ve missed another one of their plays, soccer games or school events because you were too busy finishing that project or on yet another business trip. Personal connections and physical health always mean more in the long-term than whatever I was working on last year.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

If you look at the diagram in the post, the consequences of Market Type don’t come into play until later in a company’s life. I like this post by Fred Wilson on this topic: [link] Reply steveblank , on November 17, 2009 at 1:13 pm Said: Nivi, I think I understand the problem with #2.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Bizzabo - Company Website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. The key to gaining more subscribers is to form a connection with your audience. Of course, you’ll want to make sure that your RSS feed for your show, tags and artwork area all working and up to standards.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Celebrate the female geek; meet your favorite artists, writers, and game designers; make lasting connections and friends; and play the latest console and board games. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M Don’t miss out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

“Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together. The two bibles on this topic on VentureHacks Archives and on Feld.com so I asked Nivi to do a Skype call. I don’t doubt that there’s room in the markets for which they’re playing. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We Kind of like the game of telephone you played as a kid. The result is usually hilarious.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

A web applications overall look and feel plays a very critical role mainly through two main factors: early adopters love beautifully-designed applications and that gets them talking. Aesthetics play a major part in that decision." Another perspective is Rundles contention. "A The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster.

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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. the expertise of the team) played a role. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.].

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] If you wait until your product is launched before building awareness, you are already playing catch up. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.] This post was Twitted by diego_s [.]. link] Twitted by QRCE. [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. Then, whenever you want to look up data about John Smith, you first connect to the "S" database, and then fetch the data you want. Devotees of sharding will already be groaning, because this is a bad idea.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. 1V1 human “connection” If you dont care, (lack passion) it might be time to consider another career… Best, Brian-. Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology. financials.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners. Never mind that no one on our board was in the game business or even played games.) Make sure it is yours.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Clueless about the chess game being played in Washington, I was just a minion in a corporate halfway house in between my military career and entrepreneurship. Because I kept finding interesting connections and new facts, I kept notes, and since the whole place was classified, I thought, “Oh, I’ll keep the notes in one of these safes.”

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

The goal is to get an idea of which elements together on a page play the biggest role in achieving the objective. A metric becomes a KPI only when it is measuring something connected to your objectives. Instead of using a noindex meta tag on your variaton page, use rel=canonical. Our KPI could be number of bouquets sold online.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

… it can be traced everywhere that in the first working hours in which fatigue does not play any considerable role, the number of accidents is small, and that this number sinks again after the long pauses. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. Connect Social. hour-per week super crunch. Community Chapters. Foundation.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? Solicit feedback from socially connected folks & give them early access. If you’re a heavy user of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, beef up your participation and connections prior to launch and announce your new site at an optimal time.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. You have to play option pool shuffle.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Ubuntu is free, after 6 hours of research and command line tricks trying to get your laptop to connect to your network. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob (tags: software business) [.] #35 37 Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 12th - The zeitgeist daily on 08.12.09

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Everything I’ve done for the past 30 years is coming into play with my new company! This is a cake walk, totally!

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

No, it does not matter that the Internet can’t connect to your localhost:3000, because your browser can, and your browser will follow the attacker’s instructions to do so. Alright, let’s move down the line: Look for anybody who implements OAuth/Facebook Connect/etc. Do any of them use Ruby on Rails?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

It has videos of my lectures, handouts, labs and even games that they can play to help them learn about the concepts we discus in our biology class. Phase 3: Tracking and Followup Once those emails were sent out, I played the waiting game. It’s an Interactive Biology website and the URL is www.Interactive-Biology.com.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Well, recently I’ve been playing around with the beta of Flowchart.com. A couple of years ago 37signals took an investment from Jeff Bezos, and not for the money or connections but for a relationship and advice so it shows that non-monetary motivation is at least as important as the money itself. Remember Visio , the $559.95

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

Let’s say you’ve studied your customer and you know the one specific tangible result they want the most, which you plan to help them meet, is to give up smoking because they want to be able to play with their kids at the park without being out of breath. Most of these questions can be answered through research. Yaro Starak.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

Let’s say you’ve studied your customer and you know the one specific tangible result they want the most, which you plan to help them meet, is to give up smoking because they want to be able to play with their kids at the park without being out of breath. Most of these questions can be answered through research. Yaro Starak.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Connects to the product/service – Connecting the name to the space you are in helps make it memorable and can help you communicate the value of what you do. Be wary of connecting your name to a specific technology. Differentiated – Have a look at other companies in and around the space you will be playing in.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For #3, Id add one thing: Create a flow chart of all the site pages and show how they connect (if/then paths), even if its not perfect, the flow chart really helps programmers understand what you want. Hire two potentially crappy programmers and play the odds? Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives.

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