Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics. Over the years marketers have found that using numbers to compare yourself to other products works well. We’ve all seen ads that say, “Now 30% more” or “Marked down 50%” or “5 times faster.”

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. ServerLogic.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.) Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. If you tried outsourcing something a few years ago and it didn’t work, things likely have changed.

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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. A primary motivation every human being has is the desire to have meaning to other people, and just selling ebooks created by other people quietly from your home is not going to feed this desire. It was an amazing journey. Yaro Starak.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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.) This human touch can be as light as email follow ups, or as much as inside sales people doing multiple sales calls and demos.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My talk at Lone Star Ruby Conference ► August (2) Ignite Baltimore Call for Participants Humane Sproutcore Server Development Environment ► July (3) Cool Medialets Micro-App My iPhone app screens Contributing to Rails is easier than you think ► June (3) Speaking at Lone Star Ruby Conference random_data v1.3.1

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

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. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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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. Tags: startupcto. Dan Greenberg | January 13, 2010 6:15 PM. Great post.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 23, 2010

AND to browse your archives. Here is my advice on how to make a clear statement about what your blog is about – By far the most important element for clarifying what your blog is about is to include a description byline, or tag line. You want people to read your content. AND opt-in to your email list.

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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. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged business cycle , startup , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

Why, in business alone, you can get a masters or PhD in marketing (sales’ evil cousin), finance, human resources and entrepreneurship (which isn’t even a business function, but rather a business practice). -King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

For example, ensure that the atomic components of a rotating banner are touch-sensitive on smaller mobile devices, and use an industry-recommended minimum size of 44 pixels to allot for the typical human fingertip size. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department. 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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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

P() will also vary by hour, because humans are not machines and do not do exactly the same amount of work in hour 14 of a job as they do in hour 1. The Human Factors Analysis section suggests that lack of sleep “may have contributed significantly.” In this equation P() is a function, not a constant. Acknowledgments.

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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? “We are what we are, we do what we do and we can do no other&# sounds shallow but it has content when it is seen as metaphor for the human being as a biological machine.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

All with names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles; all wonderful data longing for human contact. Twenty minutes later a cart rolls into my office with 10,000 unprocessed, unlooked at, and untouched registration cards. Customer survey Three hours later I had made up a three-page customer questionnaire. The obvious one’s were who were they?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Somewhere in the midst of total chaos, human-kind managed to layer enough integrity into a system that had built a rather wonderful world. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry? Or is it just someones end of innocence ? I think it is because in the end, customers count.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem. 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. Id like to point out something else about the example above.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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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. Three is an infamously unstable number when it comes to human psychology. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful.

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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. VivoText has developed human like text to speech which is virtually indistinguishable from a human recording.

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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. As I ran, if I looked at the base behind the fence I was staring at the most advanced technology of the 20th century. I was in between the two thinking of this movie scene. (At

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

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. Posted by: Aaronontheweb | October 4, 2007 7:54 AM Another great post Matt!

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

At times it was human resources with policies that made people leave rather than stay, or it was a CIO more interested in standards than deployment. The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank (tags: marketing business) [.] Or expense reporting requirements that took hours of a sales teams time to fill out every week. Well said.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It is one of the wonderful intersections between human nature, capitalism, and startups. They will count on your startup to listen to their needs for subsequent releases or follow-on systems that actually deliver on the initial promise. All industries, markets and segments have these visionary, early adopters.

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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. Serifs should be written into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP » 67 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 18, 2009 at 6:08 am Said: Steve- Many thanks for your last two posts.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. There is no human to interface with so it is difficult to bring a company or technology to their attention. ITA Software. July 18, 2012 10:26:22.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

HUMAN-DEBUGGER.NET. method=post. Technology stack choice for startups. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm. 2 responses. My short answer is: specializing in a single technology only is somewhat risky, as the world keeps changing. on March 29th, 2011 at 7:50am. Ron - it is clickable now. Sorry for forgetting that. Statistics. Posts count: 433.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

We now have more people we want to connect with in the human world, often after years of electronic-only contact. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things » © 2010 TechCrunch Powered by WordPress.com VIP About Advertise Archives Contact Events Jobs Network Staff. Tags: startupcto.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Julian (2010-06-20) # Well what you have outlined here is very logical, but the reality of the collaboration between the client and the programmer is in fact more organic and less predictable because both client and designer / developer are human beings and they need to learn to communicate and the process is far more chaotic. Your thoughts?

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