Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

It was Volume 7 issue 2. I.e., they’d rather have a decent-performing personal machine than have to share a high-performance machine. See the previous Ardent posts for context.) I kept thinking, “could this be possible? Did Cray ever publish any more of these magazines?” Well, “duh.&# Never bet against the desktop.

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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. This is the first of a series of posts on the company. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The popular literature has the valley springing to life in the 1960′s with the semiconductor revolution started by Shockley , Fairchild, Signetics, National and Intel, followed by the emergence of the personal computer in the mid 1970′s.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section. This all speaks to the importance of personalization. Archive and distribute the learnings.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I personally didn’t have any facts, and if we were counting opinions, there were a bunch more educated opinions in that room than I had. Reply jorge , on October 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: Fantastic! Reply Denny Ferrassoli , on October 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm Said: Excellent story!! He was right.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. thank You steve blank!!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&# I love the theory of market type but I think it is an advanced topic. Don’t launch.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc., find a different business (seriously) or 2. How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post. are much more differentiating than technology. A good case study here is most iPhone apps.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But just in case startups feel like haggling, we hear from other conference attendees that Page has to personally approve any change whatsoever in the offer price. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Would have getting a signed confidentially agreement deterred this person?&# Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Thanks for sharing you personal experience.

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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. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? January 15th, 2013 2:53 am. Related Articles.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

All teams raised their hands and screamed: we hundreds of angels and dozens of VCs, all of them say they will only fund deals with prototypes, beta customers, first revenue and executive teams all in place, and they say it will be 2 years from now because their coffers are out of cash and LPs in default. Yeah, I said.

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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. This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly. And the German night fighters had their own on-board radar. So the U.S. No kidding.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

No longer personally involved, I became a dispassionate observer. At about the same time, two newer companies asked me to join their boards. Between the board work and the consulting, I enjoyed my first-ever corporate “out-of-body experience.” We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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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. 2 Be active in trade shows, events and other networking activities. 6 Build a company archive. A vibrant business has many marketing channels, on and offline. But offline marketing can and do still yield results.

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Second, as with the collaborative filtering approach, the user needs to input information on their personal tastes, though not on the same scale. But the benefit that recommendations offer to the user must justify the effort required to offer input on personal tastes. Archives Select Month September 2013 (12). August 2012 (2).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Taking sympathy on me, the HR person made a few calls, and said, “Sure, but he doesn’t have the budget for a lab tech. I refuse to be a “could have, would have, wish I&# person. I caught my breath and thought about it for a minute and said, “How about I go talk to the new training manager.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. 2) You’re hiring employees.

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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. Check out this article on advanced social media search as well as this list for more search terms. Facebook share count.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Our salesmen focused on accounts that ordered the largest number of chips and ignored tiny little startups that wanted to build personal computers around these chips (like Cromemco, Osborne, Kaypro, Coleco, Radio Shack, Amstrad, Sinclair, Morrow, Commodore, Intertec, etc.) Keep in mind this is still several years before the IBM PC and DOS.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Zilog Correspondence Course Matchbook From that day forward, in my business and personal relationships, I would calculate the consequences of a “No&# for an answer against the benefits of getting a “Yes.&# The math said that it was almost always worth asking for what you want. You’ve reinforced my own personal beliefs.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

2 responses. So what does matter is the skill set of the first technical person(s) in the company, whichever stack they are most rapid with. asp-net-2-0(39). licensing(2). personal(49). asp-net-2-0(39). licensing(2). personal(49). Mar, 2011 (2). Feb, 2011 (2). Jun, 2010 (2).

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Personally I’ve done it both ways (solo as well as with one or more co-founders) and I think the “safety-in-numbers&# theory is more typical with first time entrepreneurs than with serial entrepreneurs. link] Matt Mireles As a first time non-technical CEO who started off solo, having 2 technical co-founders is awesome.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

So we turned to our customers, surveying a few hundred people who had bought the product and asked: Question : Were you the person who bought the board? At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. Marketing knew who the Spigot customers were; we had all the registration cards and all the data.

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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. It’s not the person you like the most. It seems like you dismiss anything else than 2 too quickly.

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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. 2 Vijaya Kadiyala on 07.25.09 The technician gets the work done. at 7:51 am [.] A good read.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Worse, there wasn’t a single person on our executive team who had come from a game company. It’s nothing personal, but your interests and your VC’s may not be aligned. Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. More on this in future posts.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The engineers spoke about all the pressure they were getting from management to build desktop personal computers rather than their traditional minicomputers. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] Perhaps we’ve passed at a couple of tradeshows.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

I wanted our PR department to get close and personal with the press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. ( Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Imagine for a moment that you are a business person with an idea trying to find a techie to help you implement it. Since you’re a business person, it’s harder to measure. It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing?

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? They may make certain concessions or decisions that could hinder the flexibility of your application There is also a hybrid variant of #2 and #3 above that I’ll call a development partner. Options #2 & #3 would have to not be possible for you to go this route. #2

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Spare no expense to find the absolute best person for this role. If you hire the best, this person will lead you to the rest. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Now on to more operational considerations.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Dont forget that this person is adding you as a partner just as much as youre adding them, so look in the mirror and think about what you bring to the table. If I was a technical person with a prototype, and I was going to give up half (or more) of my company to a businessperson, what would I want? Id want a rainmaker.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ). Whenever he did that most vendors would ignore him in the meeting. Its Woz-inspired creativity set the tone for the rest of the project.&#

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team?

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