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. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Markets with Customer/Market Risk are those where the unknown is whether customers will adopt the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

YES, of course I save all of my Snapchat videos so I can use them in the future. YES, of course I save all of my Snapchat videos so I can use them in the future. For those that don’t mind reruns, I’ll publish the archive 1–2 weeks later, when I get around to uploading the video to the cloud, tagging and providing links.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Designing for future cases affects both page layout and website structure. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. WP Word Press. Essentials. Techniques. Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call Preparing Websites For The Unexpected. By Ben Gremillion. January 14th, 2013. Responsive Design , Strategy. 20 Comments. Advertisement. You want CNN on an xBox

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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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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

How To Think About The Future. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Farmeron – Why SaaS for Cows is Incredibly Exciting.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. To my surprise, VC? Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly Follow McCann on Twitter @Mccannatron.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Depending on the size of the venture firm they may have one to three EIR’s who stay an average of a year or so. Little did I know.

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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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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Future of Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC]. 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. 5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Instead of just listing off the talents you’ll need to instill in your children to encourage them to become the good entrepreneurs of the future, I’ve sourced a number of gift ideas that fit within these categories. Wishful thinking aside, I do still want to raise children who feel the world is their oyster.

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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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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. Contact Me. You are here: Home > Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

But it can also force you to hit the pause button and perhaps take a moment to reevaluate your life and your choices. Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. This post, which is divided in two parts, is the story of the first time it happened to me.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re someone who is both creative and entrepreneurial, you might be considering Etsy as a way to monetize a craft that you truly love doing. If so, you’ve come to the right place. Etsy is a popular eCommerce platform for everything handmade, from custom jewelry to baby clothes. See Also How To Turn Your Hobby into a Business.

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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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Richard Baxter is the CEO and founder of SEOgadget , a creative agency specialising in Technical SEO, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Content Creation and Link Building in competitive industries. SEO is such an exciting, fast moving discipline to keep track of. Here’s an example.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. For example, tagging content to buyer personas allows you to see what personas you’re ignoring.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. From 1946 until 1950, Stanford’s Electronic Research Lab conducted basic research in microwave tubes. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds military to rearm and mobilize. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It’s something that we’re going to be doing a better job of with in future CompStudy surveys. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Angel Investor , liquidation preference , startup , venture capital. Below is a chart of some data from the 2010 CompStudy survey.

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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. They are: entrepreneur, manager and technician (discussed in more detail here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together. billion).

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. That’s OK, because we knew better.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. One of her first comments was, “I didn’t know you even worked here. Where were you hiding?&# If she only knew. What’s the Worst that Can Happen? We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description. Weve highlighted points more specific to start-ups in blue.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw someone confront a worldview they didn’t expect. All of us knew who they were, understood how important this site was for our country, and proud of the work we were doing.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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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? Collis Taeed 16th March Business Models 9 Comments One of the best sources of information on startups is the obscenely talented Paul Graham who has written a wealth of essays on the subject.

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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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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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of Silicon Valley innovation and the history (and future) of startup funding, to testing your hypothesis, pivoting, and optimizing for happiness. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs.

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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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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You no longer need to be an expert in large-scale computing, instead you can rely on your common sense and existing solutions. Use the Best Hosting Provider Your Money Can Buy As a startup you are looking for ways to keep the costs down. One of the first things that seems to be good to save money on is the hosting company. And we never looked back.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Serendip has been in private alpha since August 2011 and according to a Twapper Keeper Hashtag archive I set up one and a half days ago roughly 1400 listeners tweeted 500 unique URLs with the hash tag #Airing. Much of the future success of Serendip depends on how people are going to use Twitter. Sounds familiar?

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