ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.".

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

However after closely watching several hundred startups that have failed, I observed that a very large number of these had solved the product/market fit problem, but still failed because they had not found a way to acquire customers at a low enough cost. that directly tackled the problem of acquiring customers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 3 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Large Company x and we solve problems for a set of customers – I’ve talked to many of them and they would buy it.” Me – “So what’s the problem?” The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

As the theme author is getting paid for their work they will often spend more time fixing any errors or problems that get reported with their theme, there is often documentation, and in a lot of cases support forums in case you get stuck or need to solve a difficult layout problem. What Could be Improved?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

What problems do they have? What are their most important problems? How much would they pay to solve them? Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Think about all the assumptions you’ve made to get your business off the ground.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The Customer Development Model Customer Development is designed to solve the problems of the Product Development model I described in the four previous posts. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Still, there are a lot of problems for real live people that open source can’t yet solve. I love open source, but I’m happy to pay for software that solves my needs, and expect to keep doing so. at 9:29 am The problem is, if you want to sell your software to large user base then the per-user costs become prohibitive.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By talking about an idea, you’re demonstrating deep thinking about the problem far beyond the pitch. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] « Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

Every startup has problems from time to time (Guess Twitter itself can be the poster child for downtime ! If you’re having problems, don’t be afraid to tell people that you’re sorry and working on fixing it. If a user has a problem, you can @reply them and engage with them to help solve that problem. We know this.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

In a startup the role of Customer Development is to: test the founders hypothesis about the customer problem test if the product concept and minimum feature set solve that problem This is a big idea and worth repeating. We put both byte orders into the MIPS chip. It’s been there for 25-years.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Speaking of Github, Id love for them to implement pre-commit hooks, because then you could prevent developers from making commits any time the build is broken, which prevents people from ignoring problems in a large code base and just tunneling on building their one little feature. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

In previous companies I could talk about technology details and how the product features could solve a customers problem. But people didn’t buy video games on features and they weren’t looking to solve a problem. I was in a very, very different business. I was in the entertainment business.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

link] steve Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » Bem-vindos - Just another WordPress weblog , on November 30, 2009 at 10:31 am Said: [.] I cannot take much credit for that product: it was them who created most of it, because it was solving THEIR problems. It is the path that is hidden in plain sight.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

As it was a vocational school, I think the most math we had to do was to figure out whether we got a passing grade, and no one was in any danger of actually designing new equipment, but I left with an excellent education in troubleshooting, and solving complex problems in real-time. The story was even better when someone else told it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

This behavior had an unintended consequence I couldn’t have predicted: when others started volunteering to help me solve a problem, finding a solution became their goal as well. From then on when I screwed up, not only did I own up to it, I asked for help. Ownership and Teamwork not turf.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Do they believe the problem you are solving is important? For a small company this is like throwing your tradeshow money on the floor. A company must pick the one or two top goals or nothing useful will happen. What do they read? What other shows do they go to? How would they reach them? Have they ever heard of you?

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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. Nothing wrong with that! LINK | 6:20 PM | TB.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. Tags: startupcto. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

The background on i2b2 is that a few years ago the NIH invested something like $20 million into developing an open sourced platform that solves a major problem faced by hospitals (and medical researchers) which is that existing hospital information systems (“HIS&# ) were not designed for search. compared to release 1.3

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

However, recommendations engines are widely misunderstood both in terms of what is involved in building a one as well as what problems they actually solve. It solves the problem of connecting your existing users with the right items in your massive inventory (i.e. tens of thousands to millions) of products or content.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Mobile Is Also A Content Problem. Exceptions compound the problem. ” and we address many problems at once. Prevent (or at least minimize) similar problems in the future. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? Make it usable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Instead, we can use the technique of asking why five times to get to the root cause of the problem. By continuously adjusting, we eventually build up a robust series of defenses that prevent problems from happening. What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). Basically, a hypothesis will define why you believe a problem occurs. Has a goal of solving conversion problems – Split testing is done to solve specific conversion problems.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

You can have an awesome website that solves the world’s problems, has the solutions to world hunger, in addition to helping men understand women fully (can you imagine that?), However, that traffic soon died off as the blog post moved from the first page to being hidden in the archive.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

I had a queasy feeling that perhaps this wasn’t the way to solve the car quality problem. The problem, I believe, is that repeatability represents the extreme discomfort zone of this class of entrepreneur. Reply Mark Szlazak , on July 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm Said: Steve, you do point out a possible problem with sampling.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

Qualitative data is perfect for finding out why problems occur. If a large amount of people click on your e-book ad, but only a few people actually buy after seeing the price, you will want to dig deeper into the problem. Top exit-rate pages can identify problem areas. But Analytics doesn’t tell you the why behind this.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software does a nice job articulating this issue stating : The fact that you are learning only from success is a deeper problem than you imagine…drawing conclusions only from data that is available or convenient and thus systematically biasing your results. However, this survivorship bias is problematic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Does your app solve a specific problem that they have? 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. What causes them to come back to your app, instead of spending their time doing something else?

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

But equity-based work solves the misalignment of interests — there are just few dev shops willing to do it. more from the original source: When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) | startup … Posted in Shop | Tags: and-minuses, are-hiring, business, considered-the-pluses, context, [.]

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

There are flicker problems even with synchronous code, and the ability to control for flicker is limited. Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results).

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There were constant problems. The trick is to know the tools on the market and then pick the right ones to solve your problems. { The trick is to know the tools on the market and then pick the right ones to solve your problems. { Tags: startupcto. We worked with one hosting provider for the first year.

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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. Understanding the four customer currencies allows us to avoid these problems, and also unify a number of different concepts that have been floating around.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It will probably be possible to eventually do this with an IMG tag, which means any webpage that can contain a user-supplied cat photo could ALSO contain a user-supplied remote code execution.). This helps to co-opt some security researchers so that they e.g. get in touch with you about the problem prior to just going ahead an exploiting it.

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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&# 3 Martin Beeby on 12.02.08

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

But right now, the one-login-per-website problem is so bad that I am willing to accept these tradeoffs for a partial worse is better solution. So if we are evangelizing OpenID to some degree, it is because I would rather be part of the solution than yet another brick in the wall of the problem. Be the change you want to see, right?

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