Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Since I was heading a marketing department, not acting as an individual contributor, I needed to teach all of marketing the importance of customer data. Marketing, which had been unsure or unaware of what their jobs, were now had weekly reinforcement of who they were selling to and became a formidable force in the Macintosh graphics market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Now we needed to act. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Reply Steve Jobs does customer development - Venture Hacks , on September 10, 2009 at 10:44 am Said: [.] What did I learn so far? Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

What’s More Important – Me or Your Job? At some point your significant other/spouse’s question will be, “ What’s more important, me and your family or your job ? ” And when I answered, it was “my job.” People will look at you crazy (especially if you left a high paying job to start a company).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The customers didn’t act particularly excited about the product and how brilliantly I presented it. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] After I sat down I was convinced the only logical conclusion was for the customer to tell us how many they wanted to buy.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Every week StartupDigest publishes weekly newsletters about the best events, jobs, and what to read for your industry. I don't think AL is biased in any one direction, rather your just acting as the community in between. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world.

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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? He quit his job as a Baltimore City school teacher to create his company, Common Curriculum. Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore.

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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. These are not revolutionary suggestions, just not necessarily those acted upon by first-time CTO / entrepreneurs. Seek advice from a mentor.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Perhaps it’s difficult to achieve everyone acting honestly and ethically, whether to the public or to their spouse, but it’s not a complex problem. It’s his job to introduce new startups to the world. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry? Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I loved my job and I was convinced I was god’s gift to marketing. This act made an impression — an indelible one, it seems — that a casual sit-down would not. Some of us had worked together in previous companies; some of us had just started working together for the first time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 29, 2010 Video update on the Startup Visa Act The Startup Visa Act continues to gain momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks to grassroots support of all of you. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] At each startup I couldn’t wait to do this. Great, sign me up. Put faith in facts!

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

The problem is that every startup instinctually acts like they’re in an Existing Market. It’s easy if you’re in an Existing market – customers know there’s a market, customers can tell you what the basis of competition is, and you have a product better than incumbents on the metrics customers say is important.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When that happened I just updated the one file, rather than dig through my blog archives to find all the articles that contained that link, which would be a nightmare job. This actually happened with Perry’s program as he switched to Infusionsoft to manage his affiliate program and all my links with him changed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems. Yet ESL was just act one for Bill Perry. He identified with their customers, not shareholders.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know?

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

In both cases, that means you’re broadcasting “nothing interesting is in this booth folks, keep walking.&# A continual demo lets you act like you have something important to share. Or worse, your salespeople will be talking to each other looking like they’re too busy to be interrupted. What didn’t?

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.]

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

This can be a good or a bad thing, and I should probably clarify it by adding “… and will actually get the job done in a timely fashion.&# In my experience, hiring a gaggle of hackers may result in the same thing, but later… or fearing for their jobs they may prolong the situation.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Volunteer to Lead a Big Project The opportunity to lead a project may not be available to everyone, but if you have serious concerns about losing your job it’s a sure-fire way to make yourself almost irreplaceable. And if your manage isn’t in their right mind, it’s probably time to find another job. The average U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

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. A "module" of related functions does the job just as well, and is a lot easier to find when youre trying to understand how an application works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. 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. This is completely typical. Expo SF (May.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The goal is give the reader a sense of the balancing act required to create a profitable business. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. If they work, I guess I have a job a bit longer and we might be able to shape something up, otherwise I'm out a job.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Years later, I accidentally revealed this fact to my employers legal department as part of something else, and nearly lost my job. 4) Your employers lawyer is not your lawyer, and will not give you legal advice or speak or act in your best interest. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. legal , nda , startups , trust.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If you are an immigrant founder who has helped build a company that has created jobs in the US, we need you to tell your story. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

A good architecture allows us to use the right tool for the job, or even combine tools as necessary. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Log-based data is often optimally stored in date-based partitions. What about log data about customers?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Act and be engaged. As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. She looked at the baby then looked at me and asked, “Steve do you know what your most important job with this baby is?” OK, I give up, what is my most important job.” Love her?”

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Then I graduated and got a job. At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. The goal is to minimize those costs as a whole; the balancing act between the different types of cost is up to each of us.&# #30 jose on 08.11.09 50 on a slice of pizza. This is inconceivable in my life today.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

At some point I just said, “screw it, I’ll get a high paying job.” However, in defense of us “business people&# ……… every Woz needs a Jobs! It is an interesting question seeing as programmer forum “lounge&# sections are replete with “don’t quit your day job&# responses to budding entrepreneurs.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Getting a large number of triallists and acting on their feedback is essential to building a strong business and having a successful launch. Managing development is definitely a more than full time job, especially the closer you get to launch. Ill go through the best way to achieve this in a later post. Best of luck!

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

This entry was posted in Articles , legibility , reading , Research , sans serif , serif , typography and tagged linkedin. In future jobs, I might have to rethink my bias! Pingback: Elionstar » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. That was the printers job. Bookmark the permalink.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

The headline is the first part of your blog article that a person reads, which acts as the gatekeeper , fully responsible for whether the visitor continues on and reads the entire article, or at least scans it, or scurries off looking for more entertaining subject matter.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Its just a longer road, so dont give up your day job when doing it. And you better keep your day job while doing it your self. They already have great full-time programming jobs or are running booked freelancing gigs. The lure of outsourcing is that if you post a job, any job, someone will offer to do it.

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