SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

In fact, I would say that over the past few years, it has become harder to produce or find events that will attract a good audience. In fact, after several years of trying, Ive instead started relying on my CTO Forum group and private events (like an upcoming wine tasting). in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Make sure these are fact-based, not faith-based decisions.) What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based feedback loop (i.e. steve Dan Creswell , on April 11, 2009 at 3:36 am Said: “a tight fact-based feedback loop (i.e. This doesn’t mean gambling the company’s fortunes on a whim.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

The fact that Dave says that theres "no revenue stream" and that hes getting good traction suggests he must be missing something. 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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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Amazing facts and figures about Instant Messaging – [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

JUNE 11, 2009

My self in about September of last year, as a matter of fact :-/ Reply links for 2009-06-23 « Dan Creswell’s Linkblog , on June 23, 2009 at 5:07 am Said: [.] tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But no one was prepared when I said, “These facts are now old, but since we are going to be changing customer perceptions we need to get new customer data weekly. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We wouldn’t give excuses for failures, just facts and requests for help We wouldn’t accept excuses for failures, just facts, and offer help Relentless execution Individual honesty and integrity That was it. I was impressed with the fact that he understood that. Four bullets. It defined our culture.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

focused on the technical fact that we accelerated (made much faster) this arcane piece of computer code. I like to talk about the fact that choosing your segment determines how you will reach your customer, what you will to say to them, and what the sales process will look like (since it depends on the buyer’s process).

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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

This chart shows that adding additional founders to the team is in fact dilutive, but also that the more founders the more dilutive. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged angel funding , Equity Split , founder equity , technology. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Still the fact was a competitor had raised money using our idea and our slide deck. We had discovered detailed information about what customers really needed and wanted and turned our original hypotheses into facts. In fact, we made sure they knew what day at the show we were going to announce. And who was this competitor?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Now, in hindsight, with a spigot, you’re actually pouring stuff out, and, in fact, the ad actually shows you stuff pouring stuff out, but into your Mac. It made no logical sense (a fact engineering reminded us about several times.) At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Larry and I went to Michigan at the same time and in fact Larry was briefly a member of the Solar Car Team where I was team leader (I often joke that I'm one of the few people who can say that "Larry Page worked for them."). altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Fact-based Execution However, successfully executing a startup requires the company to become Fact-based as soon as it can. These customer and market risks need to be translated into facts as soon as possible. It’s a lot more comfortable to hang on to your own beliefs than to get (or face) the facts. Great, sign me up.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

I like simplicity too: I enjoy donating or throwing stuff away I resist buying more stuff when I travel, for one week or for one year, I only take a 30L backpack I enjoy reading ZenHabits.net The point I want to make today is that too often, developers will claim their application is simple where in fact their application is incomplete.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Get out of the building and meet people.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

The fact that a personal experiment fails or is delayed is no big deal, the fact that someone relies on a deadline and quality that you can influence is different. In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. So how does one find the golden idea? Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. 5 Stephen’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Some great startup advice on 07.26.09

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. I’ve been deeply embedded in the world of unicycling for the last few years and can attest to the fact that anyone can learn to do it, but that it’s a whole lot easier when you’re young. That said, it has had fantastic press on TEDx and elsewhere with FastCompany naming it the best kids’ toy of 2014.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. In fact, they generally just get in the way. In fact, they generally just get in the way. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

In fact, if everyone loves your idea, I might be worried that it’s not forward thinking enough. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? We can help!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

“Black Hole of Packaging&# Strategy Since we had no facts, other than my opinion that something wasn’t right, I took our staff on a field trip. ( You can’t do marketing from inside the building.) And the product that “talked to me&# , the loudest and most seductively, was the one that went home with me.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

” 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. Use 301 instead. Finally, page speed.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

In fact, interest was so high in Madrona’s latest fund that the backer of companies such as Farecast, Isilon and Amazon.com had to place a limit on how much money it wanted to raise. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you do find a programmer and don’t bring enough to the table, Eduardo in The Social Network is an example of how things can go wrong (ignore the fact that Mark Zuckerberg approached him). The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. Tags: startupcto. Be confident with the skills you do have.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Five Signs You Can Sell to a Large Company If you’re resegmenting an existing market or creating a new market, the odds are low that your target list of market leaders will become your first customers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Ironically, because I decide I don’t want to do something or try something new, I end up working longer, despite the fact that I decided not to make the change because I was lazy. It can lead to poor decisions that result in inefficiencies. The link is a lot more compelling from a marketing point of view.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO). Tags: startupcto. In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly. Marin — Built for WordPress.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

While the product development model is linear in one direction, the customer development model is a circular track with recursive arrows.The circles and arrows highlight the fact that each step in Customer Development is iterative. The next post provides more details about each of the four steps in the Customer Development model.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you are pursuing an advertising business model, then in the early days you will almost certainly have to outsource, despite the fact that this could be a core long term advantage. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

tags: startup productivity) [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » The Role of Corner Cases in BPM , on May 5, 2009 at 3:40 pm Said: [.] Any startup that’s striving for consensus on corner cases instead of speed and tempo will be out of business. Yep, that’s what I meant. Reply Michael F.

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