Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks. Are You Single?

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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

MAY 26, 2009

The next week in class a project group raised their hands and said, “Hey, Professor Blank, we found out the common wisdom in the biotech business is that “we need $10-20 million just for the R&D phase and 100’s of million to get through clinical trials.” “Of course,&# I said, “Life science is completely different.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Zilog Correspondence Course Matchbook From that day forward, in my business and personal relationships, I would calculate the consequences of a “No&# for an answer against the benefits of getting a “Yes.&# The math said that it was almost always worth asking for what you want. All I had to do was ask.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Using “guest posting” techniques has its place in the marketing mix, of course, as does simply using more PR orientated outreach to gain your brand, your start-up or your products coverage. Of course, that’s provided Facebook’s Public Feed data will be available to more than just a handful of publishers. Hyper targeting appropriately.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Of course I had seen pieces of the video we shot and beautiful storyboards. “No,” My hope that of course I can leverage the knowledge of generous titans like yourself to maximize my opportunity for a grand slam company. So I hired a VP of Marketing from Sega, one of the video game platforms on which our games would run.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. The business models behind each bucket will vary, of course. Tags Amazon. Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. Contact Me. You are here: Home > Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. The product is the star of the show.” ITA Software. Trending Videos.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Unless, of course, it’s your very, very last option. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English. One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product? For many companies, their web site is their lifeblood.

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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. 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. The key to gaining more subscribers is to form a connection with your audience.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Success stories are inspiring of course, but there is a lot to be learned from failure. 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 [.]. We, of course, were cocky and had to give it a try.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. After saving a copy, of course.) Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. The book was never sold publicly because I decided to release a course on traffic. It’s all content of course, direct from my experience and research, into your hands. So do you want a copy?

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore. Tags: startupcto. Start here. All rights reserved.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.)

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Movie: "Make Better Software" is a 6 movie course designed to help you as you grow from a micro-ISV to a large software company. Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Of course, it’s not so simple. ” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Yes, but there are certain keywords that have to remain in the H1 tag, so there’s the realistic prospect of losing traffic if they change it out for a clearer, benefit driven headline. Same is the case with your split testing URLs.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Most of the projects I worked on during that period of three months didn’t have half the quality they deserved which of course added to the overall stress. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Of course, survey participants will continue to have access to the summary and interactive detail reports that allow specific position-by-position research and analysis. What do you think, is this the right way to score these metrics? So, what do you think? Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. I immediately started digging deeper and found Steves course handouts ([link] podcast from his presentation ([link] and presentation slides from SKMurphys blog ([link] And yes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany is on its way too ;-).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It depends on the scope of the project, of course. Tags: startupcto. Though it will take longer, if your funding needs are specific and detailed, you are more likely to find the capital you need. How much will you need? What will it cost to build your project? But let me put it this way. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. I'm in charge of marketing, and of course I'm being constantly asked about the cost of customer acquisition from marketing. Of course, your first user will (or should) be the most expensive user. LIAD new to this blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s especially hard to change your mind/course when you have to abandon the idea that got you excited about the startup in the first place. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Put faith in facts!

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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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? Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. I’ve promoted many courses that teach a version of this system, with the most successful from my point of view being Nice Profit Classroom. It was an amazing journey. Yaro Starak. Vertically Integrated.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Here are a few I know about: Jeffrey Greenberg Aidan Fitzpatrick and, of course, be sure to check out Daniel Kehoe and Fortuity Consulting. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] Some have tremendous experience.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Other options are pretty standard, such as excluding menu items, changing fonts and an archives page. However it is not really suitable for business blogging, though it can be made to fit that purpose of course, it seems geared mainly towards general blogging, hence the name Personal Theme. What Could be Improved?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

When asked what they did, they said they worked at “the xxx research facility.&# (Of course the locals translated that to “oh do you work for the yyy or zzz intelligence agency?”) As a single guy, I got to live in a motel-like room on the site while the married guys lived in town in houses and tried to blend in with the locals.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The trusty jazz playlist had been stretched to its limits over the course of an intense weekend and I was not inclined to spend more money on songs suggested by Apple’s Genius algorithm, which had made a couple of odd suggestions in the past. publicly then Serendip is worth a try. Perusing my music library this morning, I was bored.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 Of course both entrepreneurs and investors would rather see their investment dollars used toward developing a new product and bringing it to market than toward what are usually routine transaction costs. Then you win.”

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Ill leave it to Anne Thomas Manes to tell the full story some time as she was heavily involved in trying to talk Sun off the course they eventually, fatefully took - yes, she worked for Sun back in 2000 and argued nobly against the tide. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality. Goodbye, WS-I.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Of course, do not use any of your employer’s resources. Paul H “Of course, do not use any of your employer’s resources.&# Finding Your Co-Founders (tags: startup business entrepreneurship entrepreneur inspiration startups entrepreneurs howto) [.] Tags: startupcto. Was that said with a nudge and a wink?

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And of course a venture-capital investor and an advisor to entrepreneurs would take opposite sides in a price negotiation. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Full Archives. So ultimately, setting the cap has become a proxy for what founders and investors think a startup is worth. What does this incident tell us?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Of course, this begs the question: what are we trying to learn? Of course, this begs the question: what are we trying to learn?

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