Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Very few companies can make the “Four Steps to the Epiphany” work financially – this is one reason having engineering located in a cheaper country from day one is a major plus.&# Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

These two numbers have direct impact on revenue and financial health. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] How would that change my company strategy?

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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) [.] Reply Don’t forget to keep it simple – Recomended reading from Steve Blank « Spreading FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE , on May 10, 2010 at 9:28 am Said: [.]

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. Financial Projections for Investor Pitches. Jason Evanish's blog. | in Forex Brokers. Guest Expert Tuesdays. Discussion. it really most amazing. Submitted by Briancalra on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 6:16pm. it really most amazing. October 2011. (1)

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. There is this drive to create something new, crazy, innovative and globally game changing. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g.  If you're seeing somewhat predictable financial results (even if they're not moving in a way you'd like them to!) then you can start to think about a balanced scorecard approach to your pay plan.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This traffic has significantly more value than topical traffic, and excels at attracting endemic advertisers in the key verticals of travel, auto, tech, financial services, real estate and pharma, to name a few. Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. Tags Amazon. Contact Me. 26 September 2012.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. Previous Entries.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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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. The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. You might not think of the American Federal Reserve as the place to go for comic books, but they’ve been teaching money management for years via their own series of comics, which you can access for free on the Internet Archive. What is it?

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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. Are in a financial position to be paid in equity rather than income. Tags: startupcto. The gist: 1. Have the skills that the business needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Tags: scorecard venture value Akira Hirai business valuation. I suggest you try to figure out the 3-5 key metrics that are used to judge the health of companies in your industry, and keep track of these somewhere in your scorecard. That way, you can go back and review the progress you’ve made.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The Search for the Black Swan What keeps founders and their investors going is the the dream/belief that your startup will be the Black Swan – a company that breaks all the obvious rules, ignores tradition and does something unique and spectacular and with a result that is unpredicted and financial returns that are breathtaking.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The ideal partner is financially independent. Tags: startupcto. Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm So, what makes you worth 50%? (Or

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Everything I’ve mentioned — not being dependent on a single source provider, preserving users’ privacy, helping users actually make positive change in their financial lives — all of those things are great, rational reasons to pursue what we pursued. Quora says: October 4, 2010 at. Why do startups fail?…

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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. Obviously I wanted to make a living too, but thankfully I had the patience to do one thing online for a period of time without much financial reward, because I could see where I was going, and enjoyed what I was doing. It was an amazing journey.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

In parallel, we educated the rest of our own company how essential winning these product reviews were to our customer and our financial success. This was upfront and center for anyone who walked into my office could see what I thought was important. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Although you probably think of financial portfolio when I mention diversification, there are other areas where diversification is desirable. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. But I believe there are circumstances where not focusing is a better strategy.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Its technology scans video clips quickly, implements a thorough search of their content, including faces and events, and tags the various clips. Israeli financial modeling company Modelity won the Structured Products Magazine’s technology innovation award for a second consecutive year.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Your most likely source of funding is friends and family, if your circle includes anyone with financial resources who values entrepreneurism and is willing to take a chance on you. Tags: startupcto. That’s why you need to be looking for seed-stage investors at the same time as technologists. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Perhaps, I would advocate that Nokia get their marketing guys to get out of the building and find out what their customers really want, so that they can stem this huge financial blood [.] Reply Gibson’s Blog » For mobile, size does matter , on October 18, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] of huge losses made by Nokia.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They are all successful, have a great deal of personal freedom, and are all financially well off. But the point of selling the company is for financial and personal freedom isn’t it? Tags: startupcto. Some gained success very quickly. Others took several years, but they all ended up with those things. Probably not.

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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? What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? The Adventure of a Lifetime. I do have the work life balance reasonably well tuned now , incidentally.

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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. Tags: socalcto startupcto. Information Arbitrage by Roger Ehrenberg. All Rights Reserved. Website Design: Aquinox StatCounter.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Just use this line (the ` character is important) `curl -u your_username:your_password -d status="#{message}" [link] As an entrepreneur I am excited to foresee the financial benefits of running RoR applications (no licenses to buy) in my businesses. However I constantly struggle with the question of “am I doing this right?&#

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Just use this line (the ` character is important) `curl -u your_username:your_password -d status="#{message}" [link] As an entrepreneur I am excited to foresee the financial benefits of running RoR applications (no licenses to buy) in my businesses. However I constantly struggle with the question of “am I doing this right?&#

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. financials. Browse Articles by Tag. financials. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. ™ All Articles. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite. corporaterecruiting. economicdata. employeereferrals.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Financial Model. Full Archives. We asked Y Combinator several times for comment and didnt hear back, though we understand our inquiry generated considerable discussion within the startup program. Recommended For You. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Login With Facebook.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

The realistic answer is that you need to be sure you have the financial resources to see you through what will be an extended downturn. And that you and your significant other have thought through the consequences of financial failure in this economy. It may not be for you. If you can do that you may find a clearer playing field.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

2010 03 /07 CATEGORY Uncategorized TAGS dev shops development getting it built software startups tech themoreyouknow View Comments [link] Victor Wong I would say that if you have a strong development team and need contract developers who can work well remotely and under your project manager, then you can also bring in a development shop.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 11, 2011

tags: blog. Extraordinary archival film shows construction of Oak Ridge during WWII Manhattan Project | Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com. tags: blog. Q1 2011 Cloud Apps Financial Results Roundup – Software Advice Articles. tags: blog saas. tags: blog brand loyalty.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Market Type Integral to the Customer Development model is the notion that Market Type choices affect the way the company will deploy its sales, marketing and financial resources. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

UK gave up dirty manufacturing for posh financial services, and is next to nothing in the world league now. Lessons Learned N ew buildings are a distraction. A similar thing happens when a software program is repeatedly ‘improved’ so people can “do more things&#.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. auto market with 60% of the U.S.

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