SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Whether that’s pointing new entrepreneurs in the right direction–toward an attorney, an angel, or venture capitalist–or whether it’s helping a small company grow bigger–there’s a lot of people “behind the scenes&# working to help entrepreneurs succeed. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. Now in a new paper he has written for his own firm, Wang is exploring the future of the role that the CIO plays.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Now with a new infusion of $8 million dollars of venture capital, SuperMac had been resurrected from the dead and was attempting to restart. The first step was to recruit a new management team. The new products potentially looked to be industry leaders if and when they came to market. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] But it won’t be happening daily. You’re not joining a big company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Now the bombers were accompanied by electronics intelligence planes looking for new radar signals, escort bombers just full of jammers and others full of chaff, as well as P-51 fighter planes patrolling alongside our bomber stream. Here was the guy who invented the field I had spent the first five years of my adult life working on.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines.

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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. Social Search Is the Web’s New Disruptor. The Post had a new rival, and almost solely because HuffPo better understood social discoverys relationship to search. “In

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

These are markets where it may take 5 or even 10 years to get a product out of the lab and into production. For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From this new vantage point I began to detect something deeper than I had ever seen before: there seemed to be a pattern in the midst of the chaos. I have been working on getting a startup to revenue for a while, and while this is my 4th iteration and I have not yet succeeded, I’ve been learning new things every time.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. They had all my words from a year ago, but hey wait a minute, there’s someone else’s logo on my slides?! The VP of Marketing who a year earlier had wanted a hard copy of our slides. He was now CEO of a new company in our market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. And that their management wanted these new systems on a schedule that was impossible to meet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. We will reach 35% market share in year one of sales with a headcount of twenty people, spending less than $4,000,000. Four bullets.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market ? So if we couldn’t be new, cheaper or attack our competitors head-on, what was left? I had a marketing department spending $4m a year trying to do so against competitors spending $20M year. No, not really.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Each essay is a response to this question: “Within the next five years, how will technology change the practice of management in a way we have not yet witnessed?”. • • •. This may sound a bit Big Brother-ish, but the effect will be to give knowledge workers new and powerful tools for collecting, understanding, and acting on information.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

The backdrop to my story is that I attended the Duct Tape Marketing Annual Summit last year. Last year, Ray and another group of DTM Consultants published a great book on referral marketing called Renewable Referrals , and that book became an Amazon Best Seller! Trust me, if I can write a book, you can too.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

In reality it would be another 20 years.) After a year and a half of running training and teaching the new Z-8000 and its peripheral chips, I began to figure out that one of the jobs of marketing was to translate what engineering built into a description that our salesmen could use to talk to potential customers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The new Applied Electronics Laboratory was built with Navy money and a gift from Hewlett-Packard. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. More on this in a later post.)

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. Even the foremost marketing experts in the world are not sure whether people will buy a new product.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There’s a new trend in toy design and it’s probably one of the most important in decades: STEM toys are designed to encourage children’s interest in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. This toy is so new you’re not going to find it on most lists or possibly even in most shops. What is it? Love Dr Seuss?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A company called Avid had introduced a $50,000 Mac-based professional broadcast video editing for two years earlier. And Randy Ubillos, its author, went on to author Mac-based video editing software for the next 18 years. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8000 peripheral chips included the new “ Serial Communications Controller &# ( SCC ). I thought nothing about the meeting until years later. A year goes by, you miss your revenue plan, and you’ve burned through your first VP of Sales. What happened?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

I like simplicity too: I enjoy donating or throwing stuff away I resist buying more stuff when I travel, for one week or for one year, I only take a 30L backpack I enjoy reading ZenHabits.net The point I want to make today is that too often, developers will claim their application is simple where in fact their application is incomplete.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

A report out today from Dow Jones indicates that 82 venture capital funds raised $13 billion during the first six months of the year, an increase of 31 percent over the same period last year. billion during the first half of the year, up from $1.3 billion for the same period last year. Higgs news draws giddy crowd to bar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

In this presentation, we tried to summarize those trends, show how they give startups an advantage in good economic times as well as bad, and explain why they enable a new and better investment strategy. tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

I’ve been podcasting now for over ten years and I still crave new subscribers. If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. If you’re new to podcasting, it’s probably a good idea to publish at least three times per week in the first eight weeks. 2 Publish Often.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. In ten years Sylvania EDL grew to be one the largest companies in the valley ? Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public. Terman became a consultant to the company.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

I talked to people who have years of experience in growth, SEO, and optimization to figure out where the intersection is between CRO and SEO. ” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. On a HackerNews thread a few years ago he said , “You can do A/B testing via either server-side or client-side technology.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But no one was prepared when I said, “These facts are now old, but since we are going to be changing customer perceptions we need to get new customer data weekly. Within a year we had called over 1,000 customers, and every year after that another 1,000. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames. XML sitemap.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

For years, it was possible to escape from penalty even if a Web marketer was in flagrant disregard of Google’s Quality Guidelines , building low quality links to improve their organic traffic without thought for where that link was placed, and who might be reading the page it’s positioned on. Hyper targeting is the new SEO.

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