Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

And he recognized it was making his startup feel and act like a big ponderous company. Speed = Execution Now General George Patton said, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. The same is true in your company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took lots of trial and error, learning by experience and resilience through multiple failures.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

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! Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Valuable post for startups – Lessons Learned (from Devver) – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A few months ago, Business Week did a piece on this role. 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 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Then I handed out the questionnaire to all of marketing and made two customer calls a week mandatory for everyone, including my secretary. But no one was prepared when I said, “These facts are now old, but since we are going to be changing customer perceptions we need to get new customer data weekly.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

In his post, Roberts says he was not turned off by the quality of startups, but by the investment philosophy pushed by the service. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup Resources. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. GEEK OF THE WEEK. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. GeekWire Events.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. Second, forming a company is only one of many things entrepreneurs and startups need to do to protect themselves from potential liability.

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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. com Michael Robertson.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Perhaps if you have a union job based on seniority, but not in any startup I’ve ever seen. A week later Zilog had a new product marketing manager, and I had my first job in marketing. For entrepreneurs good things come to those who ask. What’s Marketing?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

I like simplicity too: I enjoy donating or throwing stuff away I resist buying more stuff when I travel, for one week or for one year, I only take a 30L backpack I enjoy reading ZenHabits.net The point I want to make today is that too often, developers will claim their application is simple where in fact their application is incomplete.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work. Stanford Industrial Park was the first technology office park set up to house local and out of state microwave and electronics startups. The Stanford Electronics Lab was now the center of ELINT and Electronic Warfare.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web — he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me. altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.] The optimism of youth is often underrated!

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? I’m no expert on the subject, but I’m the technical cofounder of one startup that I’ve been working on for three years now, and I’ve accumulated many thoughts about this challenge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of video posts for entrepreneurs on creating a business plan. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. 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. Resources: 2007 Economic Census.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Make sure that sales is emailing/ phoning/ texting the hottest prospects within a week after the show ends — the longer you let them sit, the staler they’ll become. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Now In Print!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. my potential mentor is asking me to work with him! I will learn so much thanks to that!” For example, diversification.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged bonus , compensation , compstudy , equity , founder , pay , salary , startup. ← Outsourcing For Startups No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.)

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

A few weeks ago when I was talking with Scott about the event he asked what I thought was “next in technology.&# I think one of the biggest new opportunities is going to be a new class of companies that are now viable investments because of improvements in capital efficiency over the past few years. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. We’re about to ship next week.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

I can’t promise you that thanks to my services your application or page will get 100K fans/friends/likes in one week but I believe that I will be able to give you advices that will dramatically increase your chances of success. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

I can’t promise you that thanks to my services your application or page will get 100K fans/friends/likes in one week but I believe that I will be able to give you advices that will dramatically increase your chances of success. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

So I developed a tool that helps me keep my goals and roles in mind, and gives me a week perspective rather than a daily or list perspective. To me the most useful feature of all is the indicator on the week view that tells me how important were the tasks I worked on this week.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

So I developed a tool that helps me keep my goals and roles in mind, and gives me a week perspective rather than a daily or list perspective. To me the most useful feature of all is the indicator on the week view that tells me how important were the tasks I worked on this week.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Click Send – Aaron Franklin's Blog From Microsoft to Startup, and Everything In-Between. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding. You are also competing with the programmer doing a startup on their own. I’ve seen many presentations and articles warning to never outsource a startup.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

I can’t promise you that thanks to my services your application or page will get 100K fans/friends/likes in one week but I believe that I will be able to give you advices that will dramatically increase your chances of success. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. I worked for a set amount of time each week, did almost no all-nighters – I just steadily plugged away on it. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Set a sustainable pace.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

500 Startups makes a couple of important announcements today, including some staffing changes (the promotion of Christine Tsai to partner and the addition of Paul Singh as principal) and the recipients of two of its microfunds, the d.fund (its designer-oriented microfund) and Twilio fund (for startups utilizing the VOIP API).

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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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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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Vivek Wadhwa ( @vwadhwa ) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&#

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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