Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

So what we needed to do was to craft a Departmental Mission statement that told everyone why they come to work, what they need to do, and how they will know they have succeeded. The idea of intention is that if employees understand the thinking behind the mission, they can work collaboratively to achieve it. It didn’t take more.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Markets with Invention Risk are those where it’s questionable whether the technology can ever be made to work – but if it does customers will beat a path to the company’s door. Whether it will eventually work no one knows, but the payoff could be so large, investors will take the risk.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. This class of startup needs to spend a decade or so proving that the product works, first in a test tube and then in FDA trials. Eric and I will be working on others. Customer Development is unhelpful here. Great quote.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Over the years marketers have found that using numbers to compare yourself to other products works well. it was the speed of the applications that customers were using to get their work done. You need to know the day-in-the-life of the customer. But these meetings were life and death in our struggle for market share.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

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. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time. The software was idiot proof.

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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. Because early in a technology company's life, a true operating executive is NOT what the company needs.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. 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 is considering working on a book, a startup survival guide for CTOs.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

It found that sixty-two out of 100 venture funds it worked with failed to exceed returns available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Selling your company is the most important transaction of your life—are you ready?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I’ve also sought out 80/20 ratios in my life based on what I really want – not just what society says I should want – to build a lifestyle that most people would dream about. That’s a lot of work for what should be a simple function. The plugin offers some nifty features to control how this works.

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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. Pitching hard work using concepts that are essentially a foreign language, is not going to convert well. Eventually more work is required to compete, which doesn’t fit the horizontal strategy. It was an amazing journey.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. Bill Perry’s public life as Secretary of Defense and his subsequent work in preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is public knowledge.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Any team will work while things are going well. the process infrastructure to both maintain the built product and to work on bug fixes (instead of new, cool features). You’re a near and dear friend to whom I owe my very life and trust implicitly in every dimension. Online Life (41). and other activities. Mobile (3).

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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). I will learn so much thanks to that!”

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Using surveys to identify what’s working and “what’s not working” in the process. The goal of this step is proactively developing and deploying content about what makes your organization a desirable place to work in the minds of your target talent populations.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

I am aware that the concept of helping someone else achieve their goals has lost credibility because of the many internet marketers / scammers who declare they can change your life if you buy their product (Discount if you buy today! That is how you work with TaskArmy too. And you get this bonus #1 and bonus #2 for a value of $10K!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

I am aware that the concept of helping someone else achieve their goals has lost credibility because of the many internet marketers / scammers who declare they can change your life if you buy their product (Discount if you buy today! That is how you work with TaskArmy too. And you get this bonus #1 and bonus #2 for a value of $10K!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. It only requires about 10% revision work and I believe it could become one of the most helpful, and true to my style – simple guides – to follow on how to get more traffic from Google to your blog.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc. In terms of speaking to other entrepreneurs, the vast majority are already working on something and are highly unlikely to drop everything and copy you. There are lots of benefits to talking to people.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 27, 2015

I see email as a terrific tool that allows me to work at my own pace, tackling tasks when they are most convenient to me. I have three actions I perform with email: Archive it. Archive and Reply are obvious actions, and if possible, I try to use those as much as possible. it managing me). Reply to it.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line. Long story short, make sure you’re not talking about all the work that might go into your visitor getting the result they’re after. But you’ll never know what works best (Positive or Negative, or including both) until you test your copy. It was farther removed than that.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Earlier during the year, I read a book called “ Four hour work week ” from Tim Ferriss where I first learned about the concept of personal virtual assistant. Although some workers are currently working on it, I haven’t received any results yet. I got more than a hundred answers of developers willing to work with me.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Duality – Student Life – in the Military Here we were, thousands of students with an average age of 19 going to school and living in barracks on the airbase. Growing up in New York, the library was the only calm and stable place in my life, a refuge from home. Library Hour s I loved libraries since I was a kid. Reply Michael F.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Many people think stealth mode is about locking your team in a room, working through the nights unbeknown to anyone else, and emerging at some point with a fantastic market changing solution to something. Communication takes infrastructure and infrastructure cannot work without process. We work for our crowd.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

This is inconceivable in my life today. When an open source project gets enough talented people working on it, it can become a downright masterpiece. And partly because open-source projects are mainly worked on by hard-core developers, and not the many other specialties you might see on a good for-profit project. Absolutely.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This “ready or not, here we come” attitude means that you won’t know if the sales strategy and plan actually work until after first customer ship. No wonder the half-life of a startup VP of Sales is about nine months post first customer ship. What’s the consequence if your stab at a sales strategy is wrong? After first customer ship.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Product Development In stage two, product development, everyone stops talking and starts working. Alpha/Beta Test In stage three, alpha/beta test, Engineering works with a small group of outside users to make sure that the product works as specified and tests it for bugs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It was a brawling “take no prisoners,” work hard, party hard, type of company. But his work ethic was legendary. My company became the most important thing in my life.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve often had people, especially those who work “normal&# jobs, question the practice of revealing your income online. Repetition of what works. When something is not working or won’t take you where you want to go, quit. How You Can Make A Million Dollars.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

As I was leaving someone asked me, “You must have been working on this story for awhile.” Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War. So here it is in five parts.

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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. Given the hardware I had worked on at ESL, learning microprocessors wasn’t that hard but figuring out how to teach hardware design and assembly language programming was a bit more challenging. Life was good.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] In my work with startups, I hear some variant of this question at least once a week. It will blow the [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

For some markets you can design a model of your product on a computer and conduct experiments with the computer model to understand whether it will work, long before you actually build it. For example, I told my students doing life sciences projects it would be 5-10 years before they needed to worry about customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups A Lean Startup is not about the total amount of money you may spend over the life of your startup. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. Ive always done this with the various development projects Ive worked on at corporates, but we cut it in favour of lowering the budget for Aroxo.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I’ve been debating for a while whether to publish this blog post because it’s a bit off topic and very self indulgent, however lots of people have been asking me questions about these two changes to my life, so I’ve decided why not tell you about them. How The Internet Can Change Your Life. Hair Blogger.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 24, 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 lean startup , social debt Lean startups, beware the social debt!

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Wordpress may have begun life as a blogging tool, but the open source publishing platform has evolved into something resembling a full-fledged CMS in recent years, especially with the release of Wordpress 3.0 Its intended for static pages and a portfolio of work, making it ideal for sole proprietorships or small design shops. »

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