SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. as an example.

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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.” One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. Endianness” refers to the byte order of data stored in external memory.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did this culture of “make it happen&# emerge, etc.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Grammys YouTube Google+. Trending Stories. Apple: Access to Contacts Will Require Explicit Permission. What I Really Do: The Best Examples of the Job-Themed Meme. The Future of Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC]. 5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts. But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. When I started teaching I launched project teams with this advice: All you need is a half a million dollars to start a company and at most a few million more to scale the company.” You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. This essay originally appeared on MIT Sloan Management Review as part of their Frontiers Essay Series. Artificial Intelligence is about to transform management from an art into a combination of art and science. But they won’t stop there. Sound far-fetched?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. As a reminder, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice. It’s just a story about what happened to me. Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company.

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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. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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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. Technology stack choice for startups.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality. Like Tweet. Google VP: Here’s How to Get Bought By Us. July 18, 2012 by Chris Taylor. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. If you’re a startup looking for the fabled goldmine of a Google exit, here’s the guy you’ll want to meet: David Lawee.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer.

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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. Although in 2008 I did learn that this is called a “ sneeze page.&# Who knew?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John Jantsch. Thursday May 19 – How Do I Get More Leads in the Top of the Funnel?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. UK Startups can receive an *almost free* ticket by registering on this page. Applicaster - Company Website.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We’ve designed this Scorecard and it’s currently being built, but in the meantime I wanted to get feedback from CEOs and VCs on the feature design. This is the 11th year for the survey and the biggest year ever in terms of participation. The first part of generating the Scorecard is to select the appropriate peer cohort.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim is a serial entrepreneur currently working on using artificial intelligence and semantic analysis to extract knowledge from unstructured text found in social media. Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. I highly recommend this!

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? A/B testing – for all the content out there about testing, huge amounts of people still mess it up. From testing the wrong things to running the tests incorrectly, there are lots of ways to get it wrong. Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide: 1. What is A/B testing and How Does It Work?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

We are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties: Normal service will be resumed shortly… Home Privacy Notice About Login Lexicon. Minor Technical Difficulties. « A Quandry With LinkedIn. Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. 13, 2011 13:30 in Startups.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. It was an amazing journey. The reason I’m writing is to say that you were the first “expert&# to catch my attention. You find a need in the market, then use other people to create products to meet that need. Why I Chose To Go Vertical.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

“Men have become the tools of their tools” – Henry David Thoreau. Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I I just want to do strategy.”

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

GeekWire Events. Startup Resources. Dispatches from the Digital Frontier. About GeekWire. Contact Us. Advertise with GeekWire. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. VENTURE CAPITAL. ENTREPRENEURS. E-COMMERCE. AMAZON WEB SERVICES. WINDOWS PHONE. Mobile News. WINDOWS PHONE. VIDEO GAMES. GEEK OF THE WEEK. TECH EVENTS. NAME THAT TECH TUNE.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Having actual users is really an important factor in one’s busy-ness, because if you don’t have any users you can work at your own pace without anybody’s expectations to fulfil) As a newborn entrepreneur, I was excited by all the opportunities that were presented to me (like a baby basically). my potential mentor is asking me to work with him!

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Investors Companies. 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. Want more entrepreneurial goodness? You should sign up for our newsletter here. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. It’s free.

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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. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. but it’s manageable.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business. .&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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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. Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem? And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Other options are pretty standard, such as excluding menu items, changing fonts and an archives page. Joel from BlogTechGuy.com is fast becoming one of the best WordPress experts around. Here’s what Joel thinks of the “Personal Theme&# for WordPress… What is the Personal Theme? What Is Under The Hood? What Could be Improved?

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Next day we called Rackspace up and found out that they are almost twice as expensive as the current company we had. Next day we called Rackspace up and found out that they are almost twice as expensive as the current company we had. One of the first things that seems to be good to save money on is the hosting company.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. It may seem surprising, but many organizations realize significant benefit just from mapping out what they currently do and do not do, often realizing things they thought were being done were not. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™

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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. An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The first post, From Nothing To Something. How To Get There, is here. And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). Great, now ask yourself “are all of them roughly the same height?&# I’ll bet most of them are – you included. I’ll explain.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number 1 cause of startup failure. However there is a lot of value in looking at these same metrics for all other businesses.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Its technology scans video clips quickly, implements a thorough search of their content, including faces and events, and tags the various clips. Below are the headlines for December 2011 (mid month update!). MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF . million it was claiming in 2009.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. Basically our advice is to outsource everything. He basically outsources everything.

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