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MARCH 20, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. But at times it’s why entrepreneurs can sink their own companies. More on this in later posts.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

However, as hard as I emphasize this point to aspiring entrepreneurs every year I usually get a call or email from a past student asking me to introduce them to my favorite VC’s. Interestingly this response almost always comes from first time entrepreneurs. I’m going to go do that Customer Development stuff after we raise money.”

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (order is now by Twitter followers which is the number in parentheses).    80% of the bloggers on the list are on Twitter.    I suspect there's a "sunk cost" argument driving this. 

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Other Roles in a Startup Generic advice given to entrepreneurs assumes that everyone is going to be the founder/co-founder. Reply steveblank , on June 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm Said: Actually this is the mistake most startup entrepreneurs make – particularly in tough economic times. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 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. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 See Five Things Meme as an example. Blog Hub - A central blog provides a place where the topic is raised and comments are collected and bloggers post.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. How would that change my company strategy?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of video posts for entrepreneurs on creating a business plan. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. I very much believe that this part of the process is critical to building a strong company. The short video below contains my thoughts on the research process. Resources: 2007 Economic Census.

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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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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Personally I’ve done it both ways (solo as well as with one or more co-founders) and I think the “safety-in-numbers&# theory is more typical with first time entrepreneurs than with serial entrepreneurs. Anonymous Good point re distinction between first time entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

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: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] were the first computer entrepreneurs here. links for 2009-06-25 « Blarney Fellow , on June 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm Said: [.] So, here is my assignment. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Slightly off-topic, there’s a good example of an entrepreneur going through the “Discovery/Validation&# process for a web business that charges for its product here. Therefore the way to solve that is to ask, “what business model&# am I using. And then set up the correct metrics in Customer Discovery and Validation.

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