SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. See Five Things Meme as an example. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] The google adsense search button gives a feel for the direction of relevant advertising. It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding. Sometimes you need a few more lessons touching the hot stove.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Is the advice they are giving you going to help you build a repeatable and scalable revenue model that’s profitable quarter after quarter? Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] carry on reading.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. There are pros and cons to giving away branded products. This gives you invaluable coverage and with so many media outlets these days, from printed newspapers to online news portals, this isn’t hard to do.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Just to give you a sense of scale of how big this electronic warfare effort was, we built over 30,000 jammers , with entire factories running 24/7 in the U.S. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. I’ll go back and give it another read.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But do not walk into my office the day something was due and give me an excuse. 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. It will cost you your job.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

If you think your differentiation is going to be on the sales and marketing side, then look in a mirror and ask yourself, “would someone about to give a company a check for a couple of million dollars believe a sales and marketing differentiation story from this team?&# How would that change my company strategy?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” My mother kept asking if they were going to make me pay the money back.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And selling itself means getting money for giving some amount of anything. Therefore instead of a dogma that says, “if you’re giving it away for free, you are forever banished from Customer Development,&# I am proposing a way to bring even the misguided into the fold. Don’t all companies sell a product in the end?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you already own Monopoly and don’t want to buy yet another version of the game, give. If you already own Monopoly and don’t want to buy yet another version of the game, give PayDay a try. Confidence gives you the ability to get out there and change the world, to do the things you dream in spite of what the world thinks is possible.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This would then give developers here an identifiable vision of what startup success looks like and how to participate in its reward. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Certainly if Zoecity was mature enough within an imminent exit (IPO or acquisition) this might have worked greater. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I bet if your management team would give you guys the resources you guys could build desktop computers better than anyone, even better than us.” Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] Then our sales guy says something that makes me stop breathing for a while. “I

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

This may sound a bit Big Brother-ish, but the effect will be to give knowledge workers new and powerful tools for collecting, understanding, and acting on information. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The cynic in me says that this high liquidation preferences are VCs taking advantage of entrepreneurs who don’t understand what they’re giving away, but I suppose there are scenarios where these deals would make some sense. link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » More on Liquidation Preferences — Topsy.com [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. Give them a sense of who you are and how you think and, not only will it drive traffic to your site, but it could also open up doors for customer growth and monetization. 2 Publish Often.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The two most popular posts remain this one on term sheet negotiation and this one on venture debt , although this one on convertible debt is giving them a run for their money. Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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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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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The main thought that gives me pause is that of earned authority. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. We each pointed to key technical leaders that drove the development and operations parts of the businesses. Its about leading by example.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Lack Of Communication - Typically there is a very “over the wall&# approach to development where you specify requirements upfront and they give you what you specify. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English. blog comments powered by Disqus Powered by Tumblr.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? All you really need is a URL you can give to potential cofounders to check out the kernel of your idea! Giving them that freedom can be a major selling point. #6 Tags: startupcto. Start here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Thanks to Bruce Leak and the Apple QuickTime team, Peter Barrett for Cinepak and Randy Ubillos for giving us video editing on the Mac. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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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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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

So I was going to give our customers metrics neither they or anyone else had ever seen before. If you’re constantly correlating data and searching for patterns, all intelligence if properly integrated will give you insight. it was the speed of the applications that customers were using to get their work done. From top to bottom.

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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. They might give them too much stock, and even have that stock not subject to vesting provisions. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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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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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The idea behind these position-level charts is to give the user a position-by-position assessment on each major compensation component. This not only gives an idea of the “cash-equity&# trade off for this company, but also how that trade off compares to peer companies. The last piece of the Scorecard is in the bottom left.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

If not, just give us a “keyword&# so that we can google it. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Reply Deepta , on December 7, 2009 at 7:22 am Said: Very informative experience. Thanks for sharing you personal experience. Steve Blank [.]

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. You will be at conferences, sales calls, giving presentations, and fund raising. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this! Good sales people leverage a CTO as a company evangelist. United States License.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

You want to maximize the number of people who give you their contact information, and gather enough information so a sales person can prioritize who to call first. It’s just that most web marketeers think trade shows are so 1990′s – I wanted to give them permission to go read something else. What didn’t?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 And most importantly, you want to give specifics about relative priority and how you're connecting these performance metrics to pay. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged balanced scorecard , executive compensation , startup , venture capital.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. It also gives the hired candidate their goals right out of the gate (some auto-onboarding). SHOW THEM YOU GIVE A S**t!) Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

In this presentation, we tried to summarize those trends, show how they give startups an advantage in good economic times as well as bad, and explain why they enable a new and better investment strategy. tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said.

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