ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Yet, it still feels very elusive. Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Archive.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you. 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.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

I think customer feedback comes in a very unstructured manner, hence it is difficult to apply an algorithm on it. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. This is where it becomes an art as it requires skill (entrepreneurial?)

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

My only other complaint is that right now its very hard to find good technical people at all levels. 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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

On top of all this it was considered very bad form not to have at least four additional consecutive quarters of profits after an IPO.) But I wanted to share a very different experience from the last 10 years. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Very bad ass – [link]. Very cool – U.S. 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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] If you have, I’d be very interested in your take on it. AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] How would that change my company strategy?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

I lost several very good product marketing people who couldn’t/wouldn’t get it, or who couldn’t/wouldn’t move with the urgency I needed. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Very much in addition to the text. the graphics board and monitor market ?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

This is very different from the sales team you would hire to sell in an existing market or a cheaper product. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] They are very interesting. Jim Wheeler puts together a semi-annual get together.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

s very hard to beat the efficient market. AngelList is operating very much like the NASDAQ stock exchange of the startup investment world, where deals and angel investors are public. Concentrated Investing In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. startupcto

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. On the very first day on the job, the worker will be able to tap the knowledge graph and understand not just her job description, but also the key network nodes she’ll need to work with. What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? This is especially true of web based companies, whose product consists of mainly a web site and very little more. Lack Of Communication - Typically there is a very “over the wall&# approach to development where you specify requirements upfront and they give you what you specify.

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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. at 8:22 am Very good and very true! #5 A good read. 4 John Wright on 07.26.09 at 6:23 pm [.]

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

You can read more about Etsy products and policies on their very informative blog. The ones that have a visual emphasis are always a good idea for Etsy sellers: Instagram, Pinterest, and Vine are very popular. Ratings are very important. But don’t forget the great reach that sites like Facebook have!

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Doing so is very risky, however, because you are personally responsible for repayment of the loan until the obligation is properly transferred to your company. All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. Jason Evanish's blog. | in Forex Brokers. Guest Expert Tuesdays. Discussion.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

She’s in the little car on the monitor, and she’s also, if you look very carefully, in the water. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. It was fun watching it happen.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It was very difficult to find the right people. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. Now on to more operational considerations. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] steve Joshua , on January 5, 2010 at 3:19 pm Said: Fantastic entry, thanks very much Steve. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

For us stealing a slide deck would serve a competitor very little. Reply Deepta , on December 7, 2009 at 7:22 am Said: Very informative experience. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Perfect timing on sharing this pearl Steve. Steve Blank [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

Book launches, by their very nature, create buzz. From tagging tweets and posts, to simply notifying business chambers and local media, you will find many venues and organizations that will be motivated to share your story on social media. Social Media Exposure.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

Yes, KissMetrics what it does very well but it is not enough. 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. by Aymeric on April 28th, 2010 simplicity.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Angel Investor , liquidation preference , startup , venture capital. On a new round anyone accepting multiple liq prefs (which I think are VERY rare) except under duress is mad or dealing with nasty investors. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

As the (very junior) product marketing manager I got a call from our local salesman that someone at Apple wanted more technical information than just the spec sheets about our new (not yet shipping) chip. hope this helps, steve Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 10:02 am Said: Thank you very much.

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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. The layout isn’t quite to my particular taste, in terms of the blog posts being separated with the background showing through, but these things are very much down to personal style. What Could be Improved?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I very much believe that this part of the process is critical to building a strong company. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Tags: How To Strategy business community inspiration start-up tips business plan crowdsourcing entrepreneur entrepreneurship research small biz small business smallbiz start-up startup startups.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. You might not think of the American Federal Reserve as the place to go for comic books, but they’ve been teaching money management for years via their own series of comics, which you can access for free on the Internet Archive. What is it?

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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). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Branding/Copy.

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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. Despite the clear values of the content audit, very few marketers actually conduct one.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” Those were very short interviews. 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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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Thanks Steve!

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

But you very well may find technology startup founders who are paying their bills by doing consulting while they develop their own projects or raise the funds they need to launch. There are very few established technology consultants who offer their services as a freelance CTO for web startups. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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