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. Lessons Learned N ew buildings are a distraction. Let this article serve us reminders to founders and boards alike Reply Michael F.

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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. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Birchbox ChickRx CleverBootz eight1six EverTrue FashionStake Friends For Sport OsComp Palliative Care of America RelayRides SIRTAP Therapeutics (watch the video to see their pitch at MIT) Smarter Hearing I found links to a few of the companies, but not all. If you know of any that I missed, let me know. Bookmark the permalink.

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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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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 31, 2009

Today I stumbled upon an article that lists 8 free courses for entrepreneurs that you can find on the MIT website. Thank you MIT, thank you College Mogul. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Obama cited as examples some research at MIT where scientists are using viruses to grow batteries instead of building them. You can see Obama’s speech streamed online here thanks to the good folks at MIT. His talk was brief but made some notable points. Pretty cool. Bookmark the permalink.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). For example, consider a site like Facebook in its early days. No positioning exists yet in the mind of the prospect. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Over 150 CEOs will be in attendance at the MIT Media Lab for talks on business strategy, fundraising and more. And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. Bookmark the permalink.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged entrepreneurship , solar car , startups , University of Michigan. ← Popular Posts Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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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. PHP encourages one of the worst programming heresies of all: intermixing code and presentation logic in a giant mish-mash. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Over 150 CEOs will be in attendance at the MIT Media Lab for talks on business strategy, fundraising and more. And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. Bookmark the permalink.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

I highly recommend checking out the MIT Enterprise Forum and their events. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged angel , Boston , entrepreneur , investing , startup. These events are a great format. Suffice it to say, however, that both companies are very cool and have real potential.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged compensation , compstudy , executive , life science , startup , technology. ← Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT Some Practical Advice on Executive Compensation at Startups → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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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. Amazon PostRank

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JANUARY 4, 2009

We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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AUGUST 16, 2010

For example, in hiring an young employee you have no trusted third party indicators of capability…I can say with reasonable confidence that a young computer science graduate from MIT could be a talented programmer but how to assess the skills of a young candidate for a sales position? Bookmark the permalink. A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. steve Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on August 7, 2009 at 1:26 am Said: [.] By 1947 the U.S. military was funding half of Stanford’s engineering school budget.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

What we’re doing in the air war over the North is just nothing more than something that’s been going on in nature for millions of years, but I can’t seem to get anybody’s attention.” (Thirty years later MIT would develop the Insect Lab and work on swarm behaviors for UAV’s and robotics.) Thanks John, wherever you are.

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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. Matt Gattis | January 13, 2010 2:49 PM. Another avenue.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. However, this is not the case.

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