crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. from blog archives) – [link]. The Legal Risks And Dangers Of $99 Logo Stores – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Winners: Google Apps AND Microsoft Office. Pundits have been predicting the death of the office productivity suite for more than 10 years, but it hasnt happened yet. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The others will throw you out of their office. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch.

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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. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

My office is in the Terman Engineering Building. A Stanford professor was at Harvard in World War II because the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development thought Terman was the best radio engineer in the country. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Reply Benjamin A.

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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. Start with an email to a local press office the next time there is a new story that relates to your business or industry. #6 6 Build a company archive. But offline marketing can and do still yield results.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left his office or before a meeting ended. An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

It means you get to sit at a venture capital firm (some even pay you for the privilege) and stay until you have come up with an idea for your next company or have joined a company you’ve met as they passed through the VC’s offices. It was a Friday and we showed up at the VC offices on Sand Hill road. This post was Twitted by altgate [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Now with cash in hand, we wanted to fix everything that seemed broken and annoying about our office environment. We made what seemed to be a series of logical and rational decisions about what to do with our next office building. Now every engineer can have their own office. I was great at “office wars.”)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But do not walk into my office the day something was due and give me an excuse. I remember at the end of a hard week my direct reports came into my office just to talk about the weeks little victories. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? When they went to school, I went back to the office, starting an editorial services company in Shanghai. And you aren’t home yet, and you are the only person in the office.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. XML sitemap.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

10 Stellar Space-Themed Accessories For Your Office. 10 Stellar Space-Themed Accessories For Your Office. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. World Videos Featured: Facebook.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

These traveling wave tubes would also become the heart of the panoramic receiver used on the B-52 by the electronic warfare officer to get the bomber through the Soviet Air Defense system. Stanford Industrial Park was the first technology office park set up to house local and out of state microwave and electronics startups.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Flag this comment.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Rather than simply being handed a stack of files and being introduced to her colleagues, an onboarding AI will be able to answer questions like, “Who do I need to work with on the new office move? What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

After only two weeks on the job, he came into my office and said, “Have you’ve seen the games we are building?” A month later the VP of Marketing appeared in my office again. Hire Advice I Can Ignore But the nagging little voice in the back of my head that said, “This doesn’t feel right,” wouldn’t go away. They think the games stink.”

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Join Corum Group President Nat Burgess at the offices of Davis Wright Tremaine on July 18. Chief Business Officer. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Rebecca Lovell. Todd Bishop.

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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. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

My PR agency, my head of marketing communications and I set up a wall-sized chart (in my office where I had to close my eyes not to see it) of the editorial calendars of these publications. This was upfront and center for anyone who walked into my office could see what I thought was important.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Myth #5: I need to have an office to be taken seriously. In the very early stages of a technology company, one of the biggest unnecessary cash sinks is office space. Some people feel that an office is absolutely necessary and won’t work without one. So unless you have a legitimate need for an office, skip it until you do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Internet Archive Wayback Machine. US Patent and Trademark Office. Tags: How To Strategy business community inspiration start-up tips business plan crowdsourcing entrepreneur entrepreneurship research small biz small business smallbiz start-up startup startups. The short video below contains my thoughts on the research process.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I walked into the VP of Sales’ office and with my knees trembling, I politely asked for the job. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. Get out of the building and meet people.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Lead follow-up is your number one priority after a show, taking precedence over just about everything else — including catching up on what you missed while you were out of the office. Send PDF versions of brochures and product sheets as soon as you get back to the office. What didn’t? Go to trade shows like it matters.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] Someone likes my work as a consulting CTO.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago. In some cases costs today are 1/10 that of even 5 years ago.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : Boompa.com Launch Postmortem, Part 1: Research, Picking a Team, Office Space and Money. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. Company : Boompa.com. Why do startups fail?…

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Twenty minutes later a cart rolls into my office with 10,000 unprocessed, unlooked at, and untouched registration cards. Yet outside my office door was a mass of people who thought they were in the marketing department and had honestly believed they were contributing to the success of the company.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

As I was sitting in my office looking lost, the VP of Sales came in and said, “you look a bit burned out, take it easy this weekend.” I tried to clear my head and remember what else I had said, like anything that would be really, really, really bad to say outside of a secure facility. Something weird was happening to me. Burned out?”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free. Bizzabo - Company Website.

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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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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Just something to think about.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. Formerly the chief talent officer for Agilent Technologies (the 43,000-employee HP spin-off), he is now a professor of management at San Francisco State University. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

Since we were the hip, new, edgy, “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” video game company (more about “ big hat, no cattle ” startups in subsequent posts,) our office obviously had to match the image. Our receptionists’ desk was built on the wing of a WWII P-51 fighter plane, and the rest of the office décor matched.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I have full time staff in my office aswell. Tags: startupcto. Repeat the above as many times as needed to find that coder, who only codes and does nothing else. I personally use coders online from Asia, India and Russia. This post is about outsourcing coders. Though this is another story. Peter Drew Xrt Services Pty Ltd.

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