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 It would be the company where I actually earned the title. I invited him to meet the team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Ten rules for better founding teams – [link]. 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

The first few months of my startups were centered around building the founding team, prototyping the product and raising money. Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities. The Social Layer. Cloud Computing. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web. Social Web.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When he said, “about ten percent,” I knew by the embarrassed look on his face I had found the right guy. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The first chart shows the average pre-money valuation for the first round of US technology companies founded in the last 5 years, provided said round was between one and two million dollars. Bookmark the permalink. Anonymous Good point re distinction between first time entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs. I’m intrigued though.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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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!) Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN. invention of electronic warfare, part I and [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

I had found that the numbers 1.7x It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Four years later Ayer and another Granger engineer would leave Granger and found one of the preeminent electronic warfare and ELINT companies: Applied Technologies. tags: startup history) [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

You could sense the skepticism in my staff meeting as I described what I found. Reply Ex Back , on April 9, 2009 at 2:45 am Said: Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is a lot more than I expected when I found a link on SU telling that the info here is awesome. First, I presented what I had learned. Thanks for the link. $7

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. A Deloitte study found that just 8% of organizations believe that their annual review process is worth the effort! Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. Data-driven performance management.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. Great blog, just now found it. It was fun watching it happen.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

By now we had found a few customers and learned a lot more about the market from them and other prospects. That’s not found in a set of slides. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Over the years marketers have found that using numbers to compare yourself to other products works well. When we found a subset of the tests on which we did worse than our competition, we … hmm, somehow that never happened. We’ve all seen ads that say, “Now 30% more” or “Marked down 50%” or “5 times faster.” Overwhelmingly.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

So we can definitely expect KissMetrics to come up with new versions that will remove the incompleteness tag, I simply wanted to point the line between simplicity and incompleteness) Look at your own applications. For you, a person with above-average knowledge in these realms, the features found in these applications are obviously not enough.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Search engines don’t penalize them because that unique content is only found on their domain and no where else. ” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Again, it’s important to keep your test assets, at least in the case of archiving and learning. Same is the case with your split testing URLs.

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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. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

If you’re less technically focused, but curious as to how you might find ways to use this data for your selves, you’ll need a copy of Martin Hawksey’s Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS v5.1). Working out what websites they’re sharing most frequently is all about how we execute a Twitter search query via TAGS.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. For example, tagging content to buyer personas allows you to see what personas you’re ignoring.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Get out of the building and meet people.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim is a serial entrepreneur currently working on using artificial intelligence and semantic analysis to extract knowledge from unstructured text found in social media. Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. Tags: startupcto. Tim is considering working on a book, a startup survival guide for CTOs.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

It found that sixty-two out of 100 venture funds it worked with failed to exceed returns available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. Share this: FEATURED POST. QThru lands $3.5M

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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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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. Information about his numerous other articles, books and manuals about recruiting and HR can be found online. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. advertising.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. with long term requirements.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Donna White , on June 6, 2009 at 1:40 am Said: I found this post through a comment on Fred Wilson’s blog. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] the next day, Steve Blank posted on the startup transition from faith to facts.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

In some ways it reminds me of that Michael Lewis book Money Ball and how the Oakland A’s found ways to win with a small payroll. Anyway, so that’s my crack at “what’s next in tech.&# What do you think Scott? And, oh, by the way, come to the event on June 25. Bookmark the permalink.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers. If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Serendip has been in private alpha since August 2011 and according to a Twapper Keeper Hashtag archive I set up one and a half days ago roughly 1400 listeners tweeted 500 unique URLs with the hash tag #Airing. According to LinkedIn the company was founded in late 2010 and has five employees, including the two co-founders.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup. Tags: startupcto. But it sure does seem to help!

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, I just searched for “philly startup&# and found some good things. Tags: startupcto. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. I would imagine that there is something similar in Philadelphia.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Reply steveblank , on September 22, 2010 at 2:40 pm Said: Colin, I’ve observed that when you’re a founding CEO delegating things you don’t understand is equivalent to taking the money you raised and going to Las Vegas. Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged blog , entrepreneur , startup , Twitter.  You can copy these screen names and paste them into NinjaFollow, press submit and voila! Bookmark the permalink.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However after closely watching several hundred startups that have failed, I observed that a very large number of these had solved the product/market fit problem, but still failed because they had not found a way to acquire customers at a low enough cost. Read Get Found using Inbound Marketing to find out more.) LIAD new to this blog.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This product needs to be secret, needs to be able to be found on the web if anyone other than you uses it. Tags: startupcto. Finding a good programmer is simple once you know how. though can take a lot of time and energy. first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. Should be a simple $50 to $100 script.

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