Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Reply Sean Murphy , on June 25, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: @Prakash: at least for software there is an implicit relationship established. Investing effort in getting to know the customer is an important aspect of developing a business relationship.

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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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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. 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.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

2) You’re hiring employees. Many federal and state laws govern the employer-employee relationship and impose numerous obligations on the employer. Hiring employees through your company, rather than directly, helps limit your personal liability if something goes wrong in the employment relationship. All tags: Forex Brokers.

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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. All I had to do was ask.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

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!! SD , on October 9, 2009 at 2:47 am Said: if ever do / tell something.be You’re making him look good, so he should’t mind.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

2 toys to teach d elegation: If you’ve got this skill, you’re able to recognize that you can’t do everything yourself. The only drawback is the price tag. 2 toys to f oster determination: To teach determination, you will need to persevere through difficult, even seemingly insurmountable, obstacles.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. It was fun watching it happen.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford designed Klystrons producing 2½ Megawatts were manufactured by Varian and Litton would power the radar in the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) built at the height of the cold war.) It would turn on its head the relationship of universities and corporations.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Just as a social graph represents the interconnection of relationships in an online social network, the knowledge graph will represent the interconnection of all the data and communications within your company. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Data-driven performance management.

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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 seems like you dismiss anything else than 2 too quickly. How many companies are founded by 1, 2, 3, 5, or 8 co-founders?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). McClures rebuttal to Roberts is that the index philosophy is not only easier but better than the concentrated investment approach.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

b) Do you already have great investor relationships who will pull the trigger on funding pending the addition of a technical partner or completion of a product? Tags: startupcto. The ideal partner is financially independent. For a startup, if you are a businessperson, a) Do you already have money to start the businesses?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Reply Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: Steve, I’ve read and re-read that section in Chapter 2 re: market types and I still don’t fully comprehend. Users had to learn about iTunes and its relationship (and value) to the iPod. Its Woz-inspired creativity set the tone for the rest of the project.&#

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 2) Redline - Series Seed IRA (1 v. 2) Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. 2) Series Seed Documents Series Seed COI (v 2.0) Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Iterating on a beta is a critical part of the startup lifecycle, and it is where the dev shop / entrepreneur relationship typically starts to sour. 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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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Step #2 — Understanding your target’s decision criteria — a significant part of any recruiting process is attracting desired talent, which you cannot do effectively without understanding what your targets consider important. tags: hiring. Not logged in. [

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Either at the show or anywhere else.) Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about. Make sure the staff is trained to never disparage a competitor. What didn’t? Go to trade shows like it matters.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

can use for themselves or 2 on sell. Once you have done this work, you need to develop a relationship with them. the amount of high page rank quality sites in EVO 2 is breathtaking by comparison to BF etc. Simple RSS Trust SEO – Part 2. Tips on how to find your own programmer. Protect your asset. Trust SEO Part 4.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

How One Guy Applied 2 Months Late To Y Combinator And Still Got In. Its simply not in Google Ventures self-interest to behave in the way Graham alleges it has, Maris said: "We work really hard on our relationships and our reputation. Then GV says theyre interested and wants to invest at a cap of $x/2. Full Archives.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

See: Part 1) 2) What information would I need to prepare to properly recruit a [.] I’ve met a few folks along the way in webdev, not sure what Mike’s looking for exactly, but would be willing to help with a referral or 2 if interested. Tags: startupcto. Mark 15 Nov 10 at 3:11 pm [.] to help him develop the idea.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Your partner’s technology skills will be limited (relative to someone who has been in the workforce); moreover, your partner’s self-management and relationship skills may be very limited as well, so you both will learning as you go about working together. Tags: startupcto. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? To compute the Lifetime Value of a Customer, LTV, you would look at the Gross Margin that you would expect to make from that customer over the lifetime of your relationship. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. Element #2: Social Proof I’ll run through these quickly. Does it go between 1 and 2 or is your recommendation not to focus on the problem at all, just the visualization of the better future? I LOVED the Andrew Warner interview the 2nd 1/2 I listened too several times.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

Consider a hypothetical: Your data shows that 2% of your emails are bouncing, but an additional 10% are making it to the Email Service Provider (ESP) server then being pushed into spam. It also checks for bad links, missing alt tags, excessive load times, and more. The difference is important. Image source ). Image source ).

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? That being said, I have been working on a startup of my own and have recently come to realize the importance of finding a good developer who I can build a solid business relationship with.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? For scenario 2, because it’s an existing product, the competition is likely to be far too strong (at first) to get those rankings. There are two things that make SEO tick: 1) links, 2) links. This is especially relevant for me as I’m about to launch www.7bks.com

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

For an eCommerce business, it is utmost important to communicate with shoppers on a regular basis to create mutually beneficial relationships. News stories get archived, shared and remembered for long, so the impact on sales by being featured in a TV segment is much higher than being featured in advertisements during commercial breaks.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

just my 2 cents. Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit. Decisions are made on the basis of factors and relationships startups have no respect for, and shouldn’t have any respect for.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. » 2 Responses Knowtu » links for 2009-06-09 , on June 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

They flew an alphabet soup of Air Force and Navy planes (Navy PB4Y-2′s, P2V’s, P4M’s and EA-3′s, Air Force B-17s, EC-47′s, RB-29s, RB-50′s, and the ultimate ELINT collector of the 1950′s – the RB-47H.) The NSA owned COMINT collection.) Fred Terman was just getting warmed up.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

I don’t know a lot of people that take their relationship issues to the park and invite anyone walking by to opine on what would work best for them. Our company is about 2 months away from Beta launch, and we're accepting testers through our site. Tags: startupcto. You absolutely have to do this from day one.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. thanks for the FIRST ever great post about marriage, relationships and entrepreneurship. I’m 3 years in on my first venture with 2 kids and you’ve outlined some fantastic, and very concrete, suggestions. It takes two.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Building a real face-to-face relationship with your developers is not only immensely valuable for you, but also for them too. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. I think if we were doing this in-house we would be at about 2/3rds the team size for a more accurate cost comparison. Best of luck!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process. If had released 2-3 years ago it would have made them all look like shit.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Filed under: Air Force , Secret History of Silicon Valley | Tagged: Steve Blank « Watch This Space SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type&# at Work » 14 Responses Michael F. Reply marty , on March 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said: Great stories!! Thanks John, wherever you are.

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