www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number 1 cause of startup failure. One of the more interesting things that this model shows is how rapidly cost of customer acquisition climbs If your leads require human touch to convert them, (compare cell B23 with cell B22.)

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Right now if you want to implement this, you need to setup your own source control repository that can talk to the continuous integration system. Ryan, you're right, I just added it. Tags: startupcto. To monitor exceptions, we use the excellent Hoptoad app. November 30, 2009 11:09 AM Anonymoussaid.

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Do the right thing. It’s not the implementation of environmental policy for the sake of the environment, but rather that there seems to be a growing belief that environmentally-responsible and human-centric business practices lead to less waste, higher productivity, and more competitive businesses. It pays off in the end.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley RSS Startup California 124

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post. Eager to read more!

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 23, 2010

AND to browse your archives. In short, blogs are conflicted in terms of goals, but that’s because they can do so much, which is why so many people go wrong when it comes to figuring out how to make the right “first impression&# with their blog. You want people to read your content. AND opt-in to your email list.

Elevator Pitch 87

Elevator Pitch RSS Internet Video 87

caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But we were pretty good at getting people to tag photos with what were in them. People adding tags, descriptions, titles and comments turned out to be better sources of metadata for those photos, and that metadata could then be used in interesting ways. Totally agree with finding and honing in on the right balance. Thanks David!

Technology 40

Technology Metadata Startup Algorithm 40

Altgate

JANUARY 2, 2009

It’s times like these that test what you believe in, and I believe in the Business Cycle, Human Creativity, and the stimulative effect of massive Government spending. I think Peter is right. It sucks right now and will for a while but at the end of the day this is just another (perhaps deeper and longer) dip in the cycle of business.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Government Partner Technology 28

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? If you work 100-hour weeks, no one (investors, co-founders, employees) can blame you if things don’t work out, right? The Adventure of a Lifetime. So I drove off to pick her up.

Entrepreneur 276

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 276

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department. Out of desperation and a warm body right in front of them, they realized I was probably better than nothing. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts.

Agile 245

Agile Silicon Valley RSS California 245

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

But what we need right now is some facts. All with names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles; all wonderful data longing for human contact. Reply Denis , on March 27, 2009 at 7:39 pm Said: Could you make a post on how to come up with the right questions for the survey? Ah, a leading question. I said, “I don’t know.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 185

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 Second, I wanted the documents to human readable (as opposed to lawyer readable) and there are certain provisions of a vanilla set of Series A financing documents that are just too dense for most civilians to get through (e.g.

Finance 58

Finance Term Sheet Equity Aggregator 58

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem. But there is no right answer - Ive run this process for many different teams. 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.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

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 power of two Two is the right number — avoid the three-body problem. Four is an extremely unstable configuration and five is right out.

Cofounder 101

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 101

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

His spot was right after the station where they had dropped the hoods down on the cars, and had bolted them in. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” All the other stations on the assembly line had groups workers with power tools adding something to the car. Let me know what you think.

Founder 297

Founder Silicon Valley RSS China 297

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. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. All you have to do is own content or own the right to publish content. Bizzabo - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 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 (..)

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 327

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Yet if turned my head the other way, I’d stare out at a landscape that was untouched by humans. Starting on the safe on the left side, moving to the safe on the right side, I planned to read my way through every technical manual of every customer system. I was in between the two thinking of this movie scene. (At

Silicon Valley 270

Silicon Valley RSS California Washington 270

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Im currently going through the spec process right now, but from a very different angle. There are innate vaguenesses in human languages which present challenges during the requirements phase of a project, but a lot of graphical languages like UML eliminate some of these clarity issues. Right, the MOST IMPORTANT THING.

Web 40

Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Proceedings of ACM CHI 98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications. Understanding interfaces: A Handbook of human-computer interaction. Alex, you are right that O. Boyarski, D., Neuwirth, C., Forlizzi, J.,

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

When I was in my 20’s the two concepts that mattered were, “ me” and “ right now.” I hope I did it right. 1 Reply rick , on June 18, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: We just had our second baby, born right about 6 weeks before our (intended) product launch, so I appreciate this post. Live to Work” or “Work to Live”? It takes two.

Entrepreneur 331

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development 331

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Well, for one thing, being lucky enough to have a startup that covers a particular area of tech Google is curious about right now (and naturally keeps close to its chest). There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And people *will* come work for you if your product is right, your company is great, compensation is good, location is appealing - more or less in that order. bitcoins is what I can afford right now). HUMAN-DEBUGGER.NET. method=post. Technology stack choice for startups. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm. 2 responses. Cheers, Ron.

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. You had better have proven revenue, explosive growth, and an exit right around the corner if you want anything more that seed capital. link] Parry The long tail of VC investing, right? Translation? Sort of a microinvesting strategy.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

concept is great - what a fantastic way to take stress right out of the picture. Plus I love the idea of hiring more than one person - again, the right person will reveal him/her self without you putting all your eggs in one basket! I mean, you dont want your site to "just work", right? The Version 1.0

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84