SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. The positive effect of the tidal wave of press was as a door opener for us to raise money from corporate partners.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. The discussions on the posts are quite interesting - and heated.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Weve also found that potential clients find us through LinkedIn. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At Apple they gave us classes on interviewing candidates, and the number one technique they recommended was drawing out past experiences in great detail. Tags: startupcto. Start your questions with " Tell me about a time when. ", and follow up on that with even more specific questions. 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’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”

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JULY 2, 2009

Of course no VC firm will come right out and say, “If you’re an EIR for us you can’t do your next deal with any other firm.&# Hmm… You’ve taken their money, eaten their food, sat in their meetings and you are going to take money from someone else? In reality an EIR is a set of wonderful golden handcuffs. They have your soul.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In Customer Discovery we were learning as much from them as they did from us. And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter. We concluded that, at least for us in this market, an NDA would be a bigger impediment than asset.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Grammys YouTube Google+. Extract and Archive Your Followers. You can use it either standalone or with Twitter API authentication and it can be setup up for continuous collection (you can collected around 35k tweets before it fills up). Contact Us. Terms of Use.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Graphic designer redesigns US money in spare time. 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! We’re all in this together.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” Moore’s technology adoption lifecycle tells us to find a client. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. Their engineers hated us. This being presented to another company’s proud engineering team who was being forced to buy product from us because they couldn’t build their own in time.)

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MARCH 25, 2009

But with a little bit of thought it struck us that if we attempted to do that, our competitors had a pretty substantial advantage, since they held nearly 90% of combined market share. They had more than enough dollars to outspend and out market us. If we tried to match them on their playing field we’d never catch up.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

“Why don’t you come to Korea with us when we ship the system overseas.&# “Oh, don’t worry about that, we’ll get you temporarily assigned to us and then you can come back as a Test Engineer/Training Instructor and work on a much more interesting system.&# “Do you like to travel?&#

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Google VP: Here’s How to Get Bought By Us. Let us know in the comments. ">. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. I hope that they can find us in the forest of SaaS trees.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. It made no logical sense (a fact engineering reminded us about several times.)

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

This entry was posted in Commentary , Data Science DC , Methods , Rant and tagged data science , e-commerce , machine learning , recommendation engines. They have an army of music analysts listening to tracks and manually assigning tags. Sponsor us! Fantastic presentations from R using slidify and rCharts. Recent Posts.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Especially because U are 3 out of 4 leaders (Paul Graham is still missing) in developing entrepreneurship in the US, as far as I can judge that here from Germany. Reply web Development Company , on November 18, 2009 at 5:30 am Said: Hi This is really nice article, Thanks for sharing to us. So please, go on!

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APRIL 2, 2009

And we made sure that instead of some artificial numbers, the benchmarks truly measured performance on these four key applications our customers told us were important. Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Not because we’ll be taking commands from science fiction’s robot overlords, but because specialized AI will allow us to apply data science to our human interactions at work in a way that earlier theorists like Peter Drucker could only imagine. Specialized AI will even help us improve that scourge of productivity, the meeting.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Hey, we just all bought into this Mission idea and now you’re telling us it can change?!” Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] We introduced the notion of Mission intent.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The first chart shows the average pre-money valuation for the first round of US technology companies founded in the last 5 years, provided said round was between one and two million dollars. Bookmark the permalink. I’m intrigued though.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

What went awry was continuing to execute on the vision when all the evidence in front of us told us our hypothesis was wrong. However, we kept seeing people at EA who pitched ideas to us that not only didn’t understand gaming, but didn’t understand computers well enough to see that what they were pitching was ridiculous.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Our first question was, did the total number of customers that had already bought products from our competitors and us represent a saturated market or the tip of the iceberg? First I need to make sure what we really learned was information we could base a company strategy on.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

And by the way since we sold both the graphics card and a big screen color monitor did they buy both from us? Do they know anything about us? If they had they heard anything about us where did they hear it? Had they read any stories about us? Were they making enough money with us? If so, where? Which ones?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. Spare no expense to find the absolute best person for this role. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Stephanie Maslow of Metalicious gave us this tip. Make sure your Etsy tags and keywords are those which people can easily find you, both on Etsy and when searching for a particular item on Google. I’ve used this for reference myself in the past. What tips and resources did you use? Let us know on Twitter! .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

First off I’m giving away a free iPad each day during the week, that’s one a day for five days. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I validated this in my conversations with companies with more market reach than us, that had tried similar products (ppv video platform), but pulled the plug because they didn’t see the demand for it. Unfortunately no one of us was skilled in that area. Follow us on twitter here. It was a time to do some marketing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Picture the scene: the entire company (all 15 of us) are present. Some of us had worked together in previous companies; some of us had just started working together for the first time. Some of us had worked together in previous companies; some of us had just started working together for the first time.

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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. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. The full article includes 11 realizations and a worksheet.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Since the training department was part of sales no one really paid attention to the four of us. You left us with a cliff hanger. Bust out that next post and let us know which job you chose. I like your style of using parables, anecdotes, and narratives to convey lessons. Repeat every day, six or seven days a week.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&# Check out my book Like this post?

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