www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Does this seem like a reasonable forecast to you? 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

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-11-05 , on November 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Very few companies can make the “Four Steps to the Epiphany” work financially – this is one reason having engineering located in a cheaper country from day one is a major plus.&# Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. 4 Reasons PR Agencies Are Failing in Social Media – [link]. Nice way to share your list of favorite blogs and the reasons you enjoy reading those blogs – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! We’re all in this together.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. I think the reason that LinkedIn is working is that there are so many other people in our micromarket (or microfield) in our networks that we end up really just being a couple hops away from someone whos perfectly qualified. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

If the decision was a bad call you can unwind it in a reasonable period of time. This happens for any number of reasons. An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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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. and tagged with. 5 Reasons Why I Ditched My iPad for a Google Nexus 7. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities. The Social Layer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Although it may or may not be in written form, it is reasonably common lore at Stanford that Terman was spider in the web, so to speak, that really set the wheels in motion for both Stanford’s place in “the valley&# as well as the valley’s place as a home to entrepreneurship. I’ll stop channeling James Burke now.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. For example; our mission said that the reason why marketing needed to deliver 40,000 leads and 35% market share, etc, was so that the company could sell $25 million in graphics boards at 45% gross margin.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

In September of 2014, when I became a Duct Tape Marketing Certified Consultant, I provided a list of ten reasons why joining the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant network is a no-brainer for digital agencies. 7 Stages of a Total Online Presence Seminar Archive Yesterday I conducted an online seminar to over 1,300 small.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

While we sometimes cut the price of graphics boards, it was only because we offered our customers no compelling reasons to buy one that was priced equivalently to the market share leaders. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] And we lost money when we did so.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Common reason for failure: defining your target but failing to design the approaches used in a way capable of recruiting and hiring that type of target. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Post-Mortem Title : 6 reasons why my VC funded startup did fail. The main and perhaps only reason to do content should be the love of creating it. Want more entrepreneurial goodness?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

According to him there’s no impact of A/B testing on SEO: Paras Chopra: “The reason is that search bots don’t execute JavaScript (the method used by most A/B testing tools). Basically, there’s no reason to worry that A/B testing will mess up your coveted rankings. Same is the case with your split testing URLs.

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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. For some reason File > “Make a copy” isn’t clickable. Spreadsheet details: Public scripts?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. One of the big reasons for this dissatisfaction is the lack of data to drive objective performance management. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. Current performance management processes are terribly flawed.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The reasoning behind investing in an index fund is that it closely matches the overall market - and it?s Index vs. Concentrated Investing In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. s very hard to beat the efficient market. startupcto

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Rocket Science Games | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product Burnout » 7 Responses Steve , on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 am Said: Steve, This is an excellent post. Glad to be acknowledged as the voice of reason.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As for the "Hollywood is not a place for startups" - well probably yCombinator is currently only suited for the valley, however a startup that already has a seed investment, and has a reasonably crafted business plan, does not *have* to be in the "meet all the dudes in the coffee shops" scene. method=post. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Raising Capital: 5 Reasons Convertible Debt Sucks HOT The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post Recovery 10 Tips On Negotiating With VCs Dating…er…Fundraising Etiquette The Science & Art of Term Sheet Negotiation HOT How Liquidation Preferences Work HOT How Much Money Should I Raise?

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Once we commit to changing a website — whether our goal is to optimize for mobile or another reason — we must accept that change includes choosing what to save and what to delete. It’s impossible to predict what tech revolution will make mobile design feel antiquated, but we can take reasonable steps to ease the transition.

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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? I do have the work life balance reasonably well tuned now , incidentally. It’s often for selfish reasons and not thinking of [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime. Order Here.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 22, 2012

Once you decide to check email, follow this pattern: Quickly scan your inbox for important emails and mark them as ‘Priority’ (using a tag or star). I use tags in Gmail for this. Archive them all. Mark any other emails that are important, but not time sensitive, as ‘Later’. Note: This means you won’t answer every email you get.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? If the relationship sours for some reason, severing it could become pretty hairy. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English. One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product?

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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.). How to Archive Past Tests? Smart organizations archive their test results and plan their approach to testing systematically. Here are a few reasons data might fluctuate: Season.

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Altgate

JANUARY 5, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Entrepreneurship , Green Business , Management , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged top posts. Tips: $75 Killver VC Pitch Deck Not much to learn here. Bookmark the permalink. ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For me, toys like the Rubik’s Cube were disheartening, but puzzles and games that required creative thinking and reasoning? The only drawback is the price tag. A great way to select toys that build confidence is to pick ones that offer up a challenge to begin with, but that aren’t inherently possible to do, play, or solve. Bring it on.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

Now, don’t get me wrong, the benefits of podcasting for me are so strong I would do it even if no one subscribed, but exposure is one key reason to put in the time and effort (although it’s not that much time and effort) and getting more listeners can only help. The key to gaining more subscribers is to form a connection with your audience.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thinking he was impressed with my mastery of the subject as well as my brilliant observation, I repeated myself and embellished my initial observation with all the additional reasons why I thought our customers would want this feature. I was about to get an education that would last a lifetime.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The reason is not that this will become a long term competitive advantage, but rather that you won’t find a better way to learn about your product/service than to talk to your current customers. Outsource, obviously, but don’t bother setting up a merchant account to start unless you have reason to expect heavy volume.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. You’ve reinforced my own personal beliefs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

It was black with absolutely no compelling reason to buy – no awards, no why-to-buy message, nothing. They were bright, they were loud, and they had lots of reasons to buy front and back. Confused because while I knew absolutely nothing about retail packaging, as a consumer I knew this box was not something I would pay attention to.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I generally avoid handing over my slides as well, for two reasons: (i) confidentiality and, (ii) because I do not want someone else to try to “tell my story&#. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] You proved this adage to be true once again. Steve Blank [.]

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Then, theres no reason not to have people who say "If you build that, Id be very likely to buy that/fund that." Tags: startupcto. links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup.

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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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