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

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They spend an hour on our site every day and we know why because we interviewed them.&# Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&#

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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. This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. Most of the people interviewed for this article expect that to change. “I and tagged with.

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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. Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. It seems like you dismiss anything else than 2 too quickly. Coincidence?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

In fact, my next one is a one-hour interview with Chamillionaire that I did earlier this month at Washington University in St. For those that don’t mind reruns, I’ll publish the archive 1–2 weeks later, when I get around to uploading the video to the cloud, tagging and providing links. I will publish it next week.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. Reply steveblank , on July 27, 2009 at 2:46 pm Said: John, You’d be surprised how many people don’t. Lessons Learned Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. Browse Articles by Tag. interviewing. Step #2 — Understanding your target’s decision criteria — a significant part of any recruiting process is attracting desired talent, which you cannot do effectively without understanding what your targets consider important.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply jorge , on October 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: Fantastic! Reply Denny Ferrassoli , on October 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm Said: Excellent story!! SD , on October 9, 2009 at 2:47 am Said: if ever do / tell something.be You’re making him look good, so he should’t mind.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

There wasn’t a single stop-light along 2-lane highway for the 45 miles from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz. As one boss said “I’d much rather hear that over the phone than in an exit interview.&# while doing 2 jobs. I had resolved to get myself back by taking a 2 week-long vacation at a Zen center in Los Angeles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. for Harvard Business Revie.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? January 15th, 2013 2:53 am. Related Articles.

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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. 2 Publish Often. See if they’d be interested in guest hosting your show or if they would want you to interview them on there show.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

This station just had one guy with a 2×4 piece of lumber, a large rubber mallet and a folded blanket. Reply Mo , on May 20, 2009 at 2:02 pm Said: I agree more with what you said Apollo; chaotic environment can include the family. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know? Good point.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. 2- It might be that you can find people who: A- Would prefer a steady income. 2- You could also look at setting up an affiliate marketing program.

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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. Element #2: Social Proof I’ll run through these quickly. Thank you in advance.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We would interview them after they put the box back on the shelf. Reply Niall Smart , on May 2, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: Great story – your point about snazzy design vs. actual impact is still relevant in the context of spending money on outsourced web graphic design. And we had to convince a few of them the box was really empty.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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. link] June 20, 2009 2:52 PM Anonymoussaid. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

at 12:10 pm Nice interview. 2 Aiesha on 10.07.09 at 1:13 pm Thomas great interview! at 2:21 pm [.] the original post here: Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse … By admin | category: mind software | tags: camcorders, creator, interview-the-creator, [.]

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? Customer interviews and focus groups. This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). There are 2 criteria that are more important than others when giving a score: Ease of implementation (time/complexity/risk). How Long to A/B Test?

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

As we found out when we interviewed our dealers, our sales department was using extra commission payments – called Spif’s – to incentivize the channel to move our product.) Worse news: The worst news was that more than half of our customers had gone into their dealers to buy another brand of graphics board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Id only ever consider going to #2 on the list if #1 failed me completely. If I had to guess, I would say that if we had interviewed customers in the experimental group, they would not have been able to consciously recall the video they had seen during registration. the fatigue rate of customers in that notification channel 2.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

10 Things You Need To Know About Your Job Interviewer. How One Guy Applied 2 Months Late To Y Combinator And Still Got In. Then GV says theyre interested and wants to invest at a cap of $x/2. Small investments, (rarely more than $20,000) are made in return for 2-10% stakes. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style).

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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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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Simpler websites shouldn’t take more than 2-3 months.You can always iterate and extrapolate later.Wet your feet asap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

This sounds simple, but in order to use it everyone on your team has to: 1) know where to find the list of mappings and 2) be able to read regular expressions correctly. If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Martin , on May 15, 2009 at 2:49 pm Said: All of this talk reminds me of stories I’ve been told about MIT’s building 20. Reply Jerry Ji , on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 pm Said: When my startup starts hiring, I’ll make “The Four Steps to the Epiphany&# a prerequisite reading for every interviewer.

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Each test has only 2 main options: Edit or Report. Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Simple and intuitive. It’s really ideal for startups.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

mystic_master@hotmail.com November 28, 2009 2:35 PM Ryan said. June 2, 2010 10:38 PM wangyajuan713 said. ► April (1) How Twitter Integrates New Architecture ► March (1) Ada Lovelace Day: Profile of Heather Sarkissian ► February (2) The Debut of Ignite RailsConf Using Ruby's Queue class to manage inter-thread co.

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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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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? Is there some defining factor that easily distinguishes the difference? This is all about strategy.

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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) [.] Reply Marcelo , on September 6, 2009 at 1:34 pm Said: Amazing post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Let’s consider one last example, a sticky-growth company like eBay or World of Warcraft.

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

hmmm Posted by: sean | September 8, 2009 2:18 PM This quote is key: "One of the telling differences between an application design that is handled by a designer and one that is handled more by a development team is spacing. 1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] Posted by: Eliot Sykes | September 8, 2009 4:19 PM How extremely reassuring and useful!

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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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