Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

When we had mastered the art, then I was ready to outsource it again, but not before this became a core competency of my department. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Tags: Events.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

BTW, I don’t know to be hopeful or concerned that that this is the state of the art of analytical thinking at this agency. Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know « Steve Blank (tags: reasoning philosophy Thinking) [.] It’s a useful read to explore and challenge analytical arguments and mind-sets.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startups are – and will remain – an art, not a science. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Make A New Market If you are creating a new market, I’d start by watching a few instructional videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 29, 2010 Video update on the Startup Visa Act The Startup Visa Act continues to gain momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks to grassroots support of all of you. They feature two of the rock stars of the Startup Visa team, Shervin and Brad, looking like, well, rock stars.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Tags: development , enterprise , web services Subscribe to this blog Print They havent put their press release on a web page anywhere as far as I can tell but WS-I ("Web Services Interoperability Organization") has finally run out of runway and will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF. Goodbye, WS-I. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Weve created a place where you can tell your Startup Visa story anonymously if youd like. For now, take my word for it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Being able to sort out which common wisdom you want to listen to versus which you want to ignore, makes starting a company an art, not a science. They both have offer startups a path of getting it wrong often and early without go out of business. The next Vertical Markets post will put all the pieces together. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Leaving a good comment is an art. Some extra tips Publish videos about your website and post it in YouTube and Viddler. People underestimate the power of videos. Make sure your video title and description contains important keywords, and that you fill the tags correctly. Don’t spam, don’t be pushy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

It’s an art. Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] steve bits and pieces » Blog Archive » infographics , on February 21, 2010 at 6:37 pm Said: [.] Reply Brent , on December 18, 2009 at 8:50 pm Said: Mark, you hit the nail on the head.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

It may take the form of text, images or video. The diagram for a fictitious bank website shows two questionable items, namely the staff list and the Karaoke video. If a bank’s annual retreat video goes viral — the one where its CEO reveals a lack of karaoke talent — then the video is popular even if the CEO is not.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Leaving a good comment is an art. Some extra tips Publish videos about your website and post it in YouTube and Viddler. People underestimate the power of videos. Make sure your video title and description contains important keywords, and that you fill the tags correctly. Don’t spam, don’t be pushy.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

The Art of Good Code Design. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteHack. Contemplative Computing. « Prior Post.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

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. In the game business of the early 1990’s video was at best a brief narrative, a distraction you maybe watched once, not the core of the game.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Balance is important. It’s not easy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. However, this is not the case.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

People reject simple-but-clean-home-made, thinking that art-college-designers have something better to offer. Lessons Learned N ew buildings are a distraction. I only once moved into a new apartment that did not have someone else’s wear and tear to fix. That one posh place made no difference to my misery/happiness index.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The thesis of our current business model (startups are all about testing theses) was that there was a need for video producers and content owners to make money from their videos, and that they could do that by charging their audience. Video producers are afraid of charging for content, because they don’t think people will pay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

One example I like to use is this: we added a YouTube video about IMVU to some landing pages. Customers who saw the video were materially more likely to be active customers of IMVU ten days later. At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Let’s consider one last example, a sticky-growth company like eBay or World of Warcraft.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It will probably be possible to eventually do this with an IMG tag, which means any webpage that can contain a user-supplied cat photo could ALSO contain a user-supplied remote code execution.). Fluffy Logic » Blog Archive » I knew rails couldn’t be trusted… -. Art & Logic Blog -. February 1, 2013. [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Did a DB term of art come from UO? Ive always liked the term sharding precisely because it has a well-known video game antecedent. But even for total spaghetti code, this doesnt take more than a few hours.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!"

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

i’ve heard this same advice from my art teachers, to employers, and some mentors. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg says don’t take venture capital money [.] Keep it coming.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

This entry was posted in Articles , legibility , reading , Research , sans serif , serif , typography and tagged linkedin. Pingback: Elionstar » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. Pingback: allonlinework.com » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. Protextuel.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Off the top of my head, one of them was about some online scrap book storage, and another was an online video startup. If anything, I would think folks would have learned to stay away from video startups since that horse is kinda beat to death already. What about video and audio capture of family or digital albums?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

Copywriters of course would argue that there is plenty you can teach about how to write good headlines, but having never studied the art of copywriting to any great depth, nor really desiring to do so, it has been an area I have tried to stay clear of. There are very few replicable elements I can talk about – it just happens.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

May all your gardens grow, Jan Bills Two Women and a Hoe™ The Fine Art of Soul to Soil Phone: 248-891-0548 Email: jan@twowomenandahoe.com Website: [link] Join me on: Facebook: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Posted by: Jan Bills | February 20, 2010 12:04 PM Great tips! Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. I didnt find such help on other programming language except Java and.NET April 4, 2009 7:21 AM Web Art Sense said. Web Art Sense Team [link] May 2, 2009 8:14 AM Jeff said.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” Visual Art has always lead the way for me. My Art is my inner most feeling and expressions. Im a programmer in writing, audio, video, PowerPoint, Camtasia, and podcasting.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Finding a Designer for Your Startup The Pros & Cons of A/B Testing for Startups Get Quick Impressions of Your Latest Product Iteration with Concept Feedback How to Create a Killer Explainer Video for Your Startup Make Those Web Apps Run Fast! (Or link] Video demo here: [link] And to Eliot. Tags: startupcto. See Also Elegant.ly

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