Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

What I was actually hearing was a failure of management. 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. This is a big idea. Four bullets. It defined our culture.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. If you’re looking for a healthy way to teach your kids about failure, look out for this toymaker’s upcoming “Failure Toy.”. Every move you make brings you closer to the possibility of failure, and knowing that is surprisingly thrilling! Unicycle: .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] If I fail—at least I will own the failure. The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. Am I a Founder?

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points. It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points for each step. Not logged in. [ advertising.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

To a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Nail In hindsight my failure was that I executed to my strength – telling a compelling story – without actually listening to customer feedback. << (tags: startups) [.] It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to listen to customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] And many of the best entrepreneurs experience failure a number of times before building a legendary business (thanks Steve Blank, you’re an info sharing rockstar). Lesson learned, review how each action [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

My experience here says that getting Market Type/Positioning right can be the difference between success and failure for a startup. This “business model overlay&# would contain success/failure criteria for Discovery and Validation appropriate to your business model. Yet a startup makes the positioning decisions early on.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] Reply The failure of a promising developer – in slow motion | Control Pad , on July 29, 2009 at 12:49 pm Said: [.] This post was Twitted by altgate [.] Reply links for 2009-07-02 « Blarney Fellow , on July 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Or in my case the military set the structure of what constituted success and failure.) Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Perhaps the more failures, the better? And his previous startup failures may have been the result of non-technical business issues like failure to find funding or missed market timing.) link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Letting this happen is a failure of a board. I guess I’m saying — rather than lament the loss of a startup culture, perhaps the real issue is a failure to create a healthy culture appropriate for an established company. An upgraded new building is a premature transition away from a startup culture.

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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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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number 1 cause of startup failure. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that business model failure comes when CAC (the cost to acquire customers) exceeds LTV (the ability to monetize those customers. If things are going well, you tend to forget to think about it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Rocket Science Games | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product Burnout » 7 Responses Steve , on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 am Said: Steve, This is an excellent post. Make sure they are.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] What a sly dog you are (wink) having set your “competitor&# up for failure. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Steve Blank [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?! Good stuff too.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? Is there any way to predict success or failure? And even more importantly, was there any way to reduce risk in early stage ventures? That day, alone in the cabin I knew I had to find the answer.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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. Ive written some articles related to it on my blog: [link] Daniel Howard Thursday, October 16, 2008 Deleting … Approving … This topic is archived.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. For example, diversification. So how does one find the golden idea? Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. Tags: Events. And as a result there will be a lot more startups.

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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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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In a post-mortem about the failure of devver , the founders wrote “Dan and I are both technical founders. Tags: startupcto. It’s good for founders to have complementary skills, and the average programmer you work with doesn’t want to deal with the business side of the startup. 11 hours ago Earliest I've been awake in a long time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Failure Is an Option Notice that the circle labeled Customer Validation in the diagram has an additional iterative loop going back to Customer Discovery. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? carry on reading.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It was more time consuming, but you could perform each function separately, and intervene more easily if there was a failure, and in those days there were none of those frustrating waits for the EVOII server to respond on program start-up. Tags: startupcto. I desparately need a time saving link building system that works.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

One easy, effective way to reduce the likelihood of your emails getting tagged as spam is to encourage new subscribers to add your email to their address book. If one of the protocols fails, DMARC details what to do (for example, reject the message) and logs the failure to send in their system. Image source ). What about mobile?

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Altgate

JANUARY 27, 2009

→ Randy Komisar on Failure Posted on January 27, 2009 by fnazeeri Failure seems to be the topic of today. Before you poopoo Randy’s advice because he’s a VC, know that he’s got quite the track record as an entrepreneur (including some impressive failures, most notably GO which is chronicled in Startup ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. Instead, whenever there is a failure, we have a postmortem meeting with everyone involved and come up with follow-up tasks. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

And that you and your significant other have thought through the consequences of financial failure in this economy. Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you. If you can do that you may find a clearer playing field.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Since they dont store anything, failures are easy to handle too - just take it out of rotation. This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In the next few posts that follow, I’ll describe how thinking of a solution to this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. In the dot-com bubble economy, the investors used an IPO at product launch to take the money and run, before there was a track record of success or failure.) Coming next Part 2: What’s Wrong with Product Development as a Model?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 27, 2010

I don’t like the term “fail” because everyone has their own definition of failure and success, and what you might see as a failure might be the best experience someone is having and enjoying, instead we could say “ iterate early and often”) Anyway, I thought the Marshmallow challenge was an interesting concept and could be useful to prove a point.

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Altgate

JUNE 9, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneurship , Eric Paley , Failure , Founder Collective , Founder Dialogs , Success , Tim Healy. Bookmark the permalink. ← CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? → Comments are closed.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is a web apps look and feel critical to its overall success or failure? "As Tags: startupcto. Heres what they had to say about developers doing double duty as designers, trends theyd like to see disappear, and how aesthetics can help a startup sink or swim. As a designer, Id love to say its the most important element," said Benedetto.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Two thirds of outsourced projects fail, so there is a high likelihood of failure. The process I outline is a way of protecting yourself from a development failure which can be critical for a start-up. Best of luck!

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In fairness, early-stage business failure caused solely by language or platform choice is rare, but its often a significant contributory factor. Tags: startup programming language startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175.

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