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. (Not It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” Those were very short interviews. Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I I just want to do strategy.”

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. The goal of this step is to gather additional information on the candidate’s qualifications and “fit,” which should help you more accurately determine which candidates advance to an interview. tags: hiring. advertising.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The folks at BestVendor.com interviewed 500 developers and compiled this profile of the tools that they actually use. and tagged with. The folks at BestVendor.com interviewed 500 developers and compiled this profile of the tools that they actually use. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives.

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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. One of the best ways to drive traffic is to find and interview interesting people. See if they’d be interested in guest hosting your show or if they would want you to interview them on there show. 1 Guest Selection.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] One day I heard there was an opening in the marketing department for a product marketing manager for the Z-8000 peripheral chips. Get out of the building and meet people.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They spend an hour on our site every day and we know why because we interviewed them.&# Bad forms of validation: “They said they would buy it!&#. Better forms: “They signed an LOI. I like the idea of making a list of types of validation. I know we have to create something users find valuable (the two-way search, games?)

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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 Bookmark the permalink. Bookmark the permalink. ← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. For hiring, Tim personally sits down with the key hires, and if it is research he does interviews with applicants as well. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this! United States License. United States License.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Before I show you where to start, you should remember what I said in the interview- Creating a great landing page (given time) is not all about being a great copywriter or designer. Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. I LOVED the Andrew Warner interview the 2nd 1/2 I listened too several times.

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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. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Tags: socalcto startupcto.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. Interviewed by Jessica Livingston. "If Tags: Events.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

at 12:10 pm Nice interview. at 1:13 pm Thomas great interview! the original post here: Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse … By admin | category: mind software | tags: camcorders, creator, interview-the-creator, [.] 3 comments ↓ #1 Jared on 10.07.09 2 Aiesha on 10.07.09

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] As he points out, starting [.]

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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? Tags: startupcto. Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We would interview them after they put the box back on the shelf. We would run in and put test versions of dummy boxes on the shelf and just watch what happened – we wanted to see if people picked up the box, and when they did what they looked at and what they read. (We And we had to convince a few of them the box was really empty.)

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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. If you want a much more detailed breakdown of this strategy, check out my interview with Adam Short , the creator of Niche Profit Classroom. It was an amazing journey. Why I Chose To Go Vertical. Yaro Starak. Vertically Integrated.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

When you’re looking for a programmer, don’t forget to pitch and interview yourself. Tags: startupcto. One of my consulting clients made his first fortune 30+ years ago by investing his savings for a computer (very expensive at the time) and figured out the rest. Anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Blog at WordPress.com.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs. Sounds like handspring.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup strategy customer-development) [.] carry on reading.

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Altgate

JANUARY 27, 2009

Came across this gem of an interview with KPCB partner Randy Komisar. Anyway, there is a great quote toward the end of this interview where Randy says, “You can learn from someone else’s failure, but the only way to really get your money’s worth is to fail yourself.&# Randy is an excellent speaker. Randy Komisar [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) [.] ——————- Part 3 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In an interview today on the Cloudscaling blog, Netflix Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft discusses why Netflix moved to AWS. Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias conducted the interview. The interview is part of a series Bias is doing with cloud computing innovators. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. That will change.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her. On this point, I recently did a great interview with Dave Fitzgerald, EVP of Sales and Marketing at Brainshark , who describes his Sales 2.0 Tags: startupcto. process in detail.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Released SocialDevCampEast #2 recap ► October (2) SproutCore and the Future of Web Apps Ignite Baltimore and SocialDevCampEast ► September (4) My Rails TakeFive interview Video of my talk at Lone Star Ruby Conference Today we launch OtherInbox! Tags: startupcto.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her. On this point, I recently did a great interview with Dave Fitzgerald, EVP of Sales and Marketing at Brainshark , who describes his Sales 2.0 As I take you through todays roundtable pitches, you will see this come up over and again.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Statistical and market research data plus potential customer interviews determine whether the ideas have merit. The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] On the bottom, and least convincing are statements about your “idea.” Get back up and running.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Weve created a place where you can tell your Startup Visa story anonymously if youd like. For now, take my word for it.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3) We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase.

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting NEW Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting NEW Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink. ← Global Nuances of Startup Compensation Obama Shoots Down 90% Tax Bracket → Comments are closed.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3) We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today I was interviewed on background by an author who’s writing a book on entrepreneurship and we discussed this topic in some detail. The interviewer asked the question that begs to be asked, i.e. “what is market timing skill?&# I wish I knew the answer to this. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I haven’t met founder Jason Fried but reading interviews and stories about him, he’s clearly the real deal. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged 2009 prediction , 37signals , microsoft , startup. Bookmark the permalink. … [.]

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