crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. Top-Pick Tutorials: Logo Design – Creation and Process – [link]. from blog archives) – [link]. The Legal Risks And Dangers Of $99 Logo Stores – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This tendency is a two edged sword: by iterating strategy a startup can dramatically improve the size and trajectory of the company, but at times this process can be the bane of venture investors (and why they have prematurely grey hair.) Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.]

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research. in Computer Science.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Risky Business: How Technology Can Help You Manage Risk BC/DR in Action How to Create a Business Continuity Strategy Survey Says: Hybrid Approach to Cloud Offers Best-of-Both-Worlds New Age for the Sales Process More from the Think Gig Blog » POPULAR TAGS enterprise enterprise 2.0 startupcto

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Entrepreneurs who have a startup or two under their belt tend to rattle off preliminary customer findings and data that blow me away (not because I think their data is going to be right, but because it means they have built a process for learning and discovery from day one.) Fundraising isn’t the product.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount. Tags: startupcto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Good suggestions about ways to improve the design process – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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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) [.] You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

But then, because there might be entrenched competitors and your concept is radically new, you still need to invest in the customer development process to learn how to get design wins from companies who may be happy with their existing vendors. Yet, going through the technology adoption process isn’t about money alone.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? what Market Type is your startup?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

While these specialized AIs can’t pass a Turing test, they can process and manipulate enormous quantities of data at a rate our biological brains can’t match. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Current performance management processes are terribly flawed.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” Would you mind sharing them? Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] your lawyers that you want to have an extremely firm date for the closing process. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points. It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points for each step. Not logged in. [ advertising.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Then they can run another customer development process on their revenue hypotheses later. Slightly off-topic, there’s a good example of an entrepreneur going through the “Discovery/Validation&# process for a web business that charges for its product here. stumbled into customer creation and company building?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

I like to talk about the fact that choosing your segment determines how you will reach your customer, what you will to say to them, and what the sales process will look like (since it depends on the buyer’s process). SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] How prevalent would you say this process is? Are These Your Slides? Steve Blank [.]

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This process assists search marketers in shaping their content strategies far more confidently. If you’re less technically focused, but curious as to how you might find ways to use this data for your selves, you’ll need a copy of Martin Hawksey’s Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS v5.1). Here’s an example.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

So we can definitely expect KissMetrics to come up with new versions that will remove the incompleteness tag, I simply wanted to point the line between simplicity and incompleteness) Look at your own applications. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. That’s because auditing content is a notoriously painful process. Publish date. Buying Stage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I very much believe that this part of the process is critical to building a strong company. The short video below contains my thoughts on the research process. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of video posts for entrepreneurs on creating a business plan. Resources: 2007 Economic Census.

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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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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Known Entity - You only need to guide the development of the product, they take care of finding developers, development process, etc. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English. For many companies, their web site is their lifeblood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. Of course, you’ll want to make sure that your RSS feed for your show, tags and artwork area all working and up to standards. It will make the process easier, and they’re more likely to comply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Tags: scorecard venture value Akira Hirai business valuation. As noted earlier, your Venture Value Scorecard should be updated monthly. That way, you can go back and review the progress you’ve made. His website is [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Customer Development This strategy of starting on faith, and quickly turning them into facts is the core of the Customer Development process. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Put faith in facts! As he points out, starting [.]

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate. Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions. XML sitemap.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

ESL specialized in embedding minicomputers in electronic intelligence systems , turning a tedious manual process into one that looked like magic. ESL realized that by turning these radio waves into computer bits, ones and zeros, they could be processed in ways that had been considered theoretically impossible.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” So we are in the process of redesigning the homepage to better point out how we solve problems, save time, and better communicate our positioning.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When that happened I just updated the one file, rather than dig through my blog archives to find all the articles that contained that link, which would be a nightmare job. This is the kind of control I want over where I place affiliate links, and it makes the process a simple highlight and select process to apply affiliate links.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Tags: socalcto startupcto. I am a business person, not a technologist. While I know I can add value, I also know when and how I can add value.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

the process infrastructure to both maintain the built product and to work on bug fixes (instead of new, cool features). Or even ways to optimize the conversion flow of a website sign up process. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. and other activities. link] Sebastian F.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

What used to be an exercise in teeth-pulling frustration to get help from our own manufacturing or engineering departments turned into a well-oiled process as everyone stopped what they were doing to help us win. None of this was an accident. It was all part of a strategy.

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