Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can you do this without running out of money? We’ve been running on small investments from friends and family or angels. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] How do we raise the big bucks?”

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Lots of people keep their ‘head in the cave’ and go without customer contact while burning their savings and running up credit cards. It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Get back up and running.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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. Indeed, three of the five people displayed have run the Boston Marathon at least once, and one coaches charity runners. and tagged with. Enterprise.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). Anyone can easily run a search for his or her brand name and see how actively it’s being discussed in social media.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If theyd never run into that sort of problem, then Id know their experience was pretty superficial. Tags: startupcto. For example when I was interviewing for people whod be working heavily with OpenGL, Id always ask " Tell me about a time when you ran into a graphics driver bug ". then youll be off to a good start!

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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. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] steve Knowtu » links for 2009-11-30 , on November 30, 2009 at 5:08 pm Said: [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Startups face a lot of challenges, but putting together the tools and infrasture they need to get up and running shouldnt be one of them. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

Snapchat for my “original run” and I’ll also store each video to be watched later. I’ll run the original episode on Snapchat and I hope an audience will continue to want to tune in. Snapchat has an enormous audience of mobile-first consumers tuning in every day looking for content to consume in a way that YouTube doesn’t.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Just to give you a sense of scale of how big this electronic warfare effort was, we built over 30,000 jammers , with entire factories running 24/7 in the U.S. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. That every bomb run was accompanied by electronic warfare planes.

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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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

From testing the wrong things to running the tests incorrectly, there are lots of ways to get it wrong. How to Archive Past Tests? A/B tests, while most popular to talk about, are just one type of online experiment – you can also run Multivariate and Bandit tests. Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide: 1.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

While their titles might be what their business cards said, titles were not their job – at least in any marketing department I was running. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Google runs A/B tests. First, running A/B tests that dynamically swap elements via javascript is not content cloaking. If you’re running tests, this really isn’t a concern, as Google expects you to be providing dynamic experiences. Only run the experiment as long as necessary. Google has its own testing tool.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Rather than risk having your car repossessed, you should run the loan or investment through the company. All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. 5) You’re ready to launch your product. Jason Evanish's blog. | in Forex Brokers. Guest Expert Tuesdays. Discussion. October 2011.

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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. Other articles you might like Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Slides: Why Ruby on Rails rocks?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Once you’re up and running, there are ongoing aspects to operating your business. Derek Coleman, who runs the Etsy shop Lonehood , said: “Etsy is all about the community and the community influences others. Make sure that they find your shipping policy, return policy, product descriptions, images and about page up to snuff.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Less significant is that ABTasty has no Bayesian-style stats to address alpha inflation caused by peaking at running tests. Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc. ChangeAgain.me

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Yet the customers not only had told us who they were – color desktop publishers – but what they cared most about – graphics performance when running their four key applications. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Then they can run another customer development process on their revenue hypotheses later. Can’t customer development work well for other effective definitions of validation and isn’t that how the startups that you’re talking about (Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, etc.)

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

That generally comes from running the business together. It's not that the startup cannot outsource or otherwise satisfy the needs you outlined, but having someone who is passionate about your company, as well as committed to the long run, appears better. Tags: startupcto. The other problem area is that of growth.

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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. But it takes more than a technician to run a successful business. A good read. at 6:23 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

So I hired a VP of Marketing from Sega, one of the video game platforms on which our games would run. You could explain that, while you had access to more storage space per game, you were still running on the same Intel chip with the same graphics board. What kind of question was that? Make sure they are.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

After a year and a half of running training and teaching the new Z-8000 and its peripheral chips, I began to figure out that one of the jobs of marketing was to translate what engineering built into a description that our salesmen could use to talk to potential customers. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.]

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The two most popular posts remain this one on term sheet negotiation and this one on venture debt , although this one on convertible debt is giving them a run for their money. Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. ITA Software. Trending Videos.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

x); note that this is a well-known way to kill a company among people with software products experience; Informix self-destructed because people couldn’t figure out whether to run the old proven version 7 or the new fancy version 9 so they converted to Oracle instead). deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. The machines are running smoothly, we never had to reboot them. When everything is running smoothly you do not care. Here is an example from AdaptiveBlue experience. And we never looked back.

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. According to researchers, children are wired to love entrepreneurship, mainly because running a business requires creativity, autonomy, and making steady progress toward a goal, something that comes more naturally when you’re younger. What is it?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

An honest refusal is probably better than an overcommitted yes on the long run (for both parties). We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Also I may not have to say no either maybe I can simply delay them until my current project is completed.

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