Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. And given the “clubbiness&# of the venture business there appears to be little self policing of steering entrepreneurs away from firms that are bad news. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It would be great to know how they got news and information about new products and new companies. The bad news : That was the good news. 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. What magazines did they read?

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Twitter responds far better to true news and topical information sharing. It is comprised of posts generally linking to news, information, family, entertainment, photos, etc. Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. And what do you think about general news content? Contact Me. 20 Comments.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. This gives you invaluable coverage and with so many media outlets these days, from printed newspapers to online news portals, this isn’t hard to do. 6 Build a company archive.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

We just turned on the rental car radio as we entered campus and heard the mid day BBC news – the space shuttle Challenger had just exploded. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Mobile News. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geeky Gathering Spots: Check out this new category in GeekWires Startup Resource Center , spotlighting some of the best places in the Seattle region for your team to huddle over coffee, drinks or games. Geek of the Week Archive.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The good news is that I had just gotten my first promotion in Silicon Valley, and I hadn’t even started work. The bad news is that I had 6 weeks to write a 10 week course on three 30-foot vans full of direction finding electronics plus a small airplane stuffed full of receivers. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

I just added you to my Google News Reader. When the environment changes, its too late to talk about change. Reply Bowling Balls , on June 21, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. Skip to Navigation. >. User login. Sign in here or Create your free account! Username: Password: Forgot your password ? The Feed Blog. Resources General. Friends Sponsors. About The Team. In the Press. What's Next. Connect with Greenhorn: -->.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) But upon reflection I remembered that in our interviews with our existing customers they had told us how to get the news to them.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Some websites — news or blogs, for example — provide vital content on the home page. 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. But many home pages are not necessarily vital. Related Articles.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They tend to be plugged in to tech news sources to be aware of trends and understand how those trends could impact the business. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. I work for ThoughtWorks. This is my technology blog.

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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? Follow @StartupBmore on Twitter » Sign-up for our Newsletter Stay up to date with our weekly digest of events, news, alerts and more. Tags: startupcto. All rights reserved.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&# at 5:20 pm [.]

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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. 5 Stephen’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Some great startup advice on 07.26.09

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas?

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Steve I have to tell you some bad news, I just showed our potential channel partners and customers a few completed pieces of the games we had. Tell them how great it’s going to be and see how many pre-orders we can get.” A month later the VP of Marketing appeared in my office again. They think the games stink.” Make sure they are.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] And the good news is, you actually had an advantage of knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your competitor, having devised the original idea in the first place. Steve Blank [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Follow us on Facebook and get updates from SAI posted directly to your news feed. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Breaking News Alerts. Full Archives. BI Intelligence. BI Intelligence. Enterprise. Digital 100. Silicon Valley 100. Innovation. Document Center. Contributors. Recommended For You. Name (Required).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

None of these problems should have been unassailable, which leads us to why NewsLabs failed as a company: Nathan and I had major communication problems, we weren’t intrinsically motivated by news and journalism, making a new product required changes we could not make, our motivation to make a successful company got destroyed by all of the above.

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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? They were all completely new technologies or applications of technologies. Tags: startupcto. But it sure does seem to help!

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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. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Other options are pretty standard, such as excluding menu items, changing fonts and an archives page. From Yaro: Kevin very recently sold his BloggingTips.com blog to a new owner, which I believe includes management of this theme too, so you should check out who is providing support for Personal Theme before you buy it.).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Reply steveblank , on August 24, 2009 at 11:58 pm Said: Best summary of what the post is about is a comment posted on Hacker News by mechanical_fish —– What he seems to be saying, in an elegantly indirect way, is: A) Um, yeah, PR firms shill for their clients on the Apple Store. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

And if the analysis is airtight, it makes it pretty easy for everyone to understand why the team is taking some time out to invest in problem prevention instead of new features. If, on the other hand, it ignites a firestorm - thats good news too. The piece you add about committing to each stage of the process is news to me.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F. Thanks again.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 22, 2009 at 12:22 pm Said: A commenter on Hacker News got what I was saying better than I did: “… the problem is when people attempt to use corner cases to destroy a good idea. tags: startup productivity) [.] To build consensus you must work back to the generic. Dangerous stuff, to be sure!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged angel capital , technology , venture capital. ← More on Liquidation Preferences Happy Holidays → [link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » Where Do Tech VCs Invest? News Effect 9 said: Where do tech VCs invest?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

This entry was written by Niel Robertson and posted on March 31, 2010 at 11:12 am and filed under Trada News. The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog (tags: startup entrepen strategy management tips) Share and Enjoy: [.] IT News Wire [.] Tags: startupcto. Bookmark the permalink. Robertson [.]

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