Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress. Teams had 59 days to create a killer app. One that solves a problem, is marketable, and demos well. Overall it was an impressive showing of local talent. You can view a list of contestants here. Zero-code meant you had to start with…um, zero code on day 1.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 2) The agile "happy place". If there are many enhancements in this category, the business and technical team must still prioritize. Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. Social, Agile, and Transformation.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. So much for timing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. Jacob Webb Everyday Entrepreneurship [link] Reply Keenan , on April 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, Your Hueristics are at the core. It looks as though you and I have the same taste in layout, no? This happens for any number of reasons.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 16, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I Need Your Help! But Management and Marketing ? iTunes needs to re-think these stodgy old categories because it’s the closest thing to “startups&# they offer.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Picking Ventures: Part 2. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Picking Ventures: Part 2 : Comments. Picking Ventures: Part 2. Categories. Managing Company Growth. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Enter your Email. April 2013.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

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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. 2 toys to teach d elegation: If you’ve got this skill, you’re able to recognize that you can’t do everything yourself.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

2 Dustin on 07.25.10 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 3 comments ↓ #1 Martin on 07.20.10 at 7:00 am Sounds interesting, thanks for sharing! #2

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I hope we managed to teach our children compassion and charity for others. This year as American families face economic hardships, (one out of eight Californian’s are unemployed,) we remember that as a nation we are still a generous people, willing to share and give to others less fortunate then ourselves – both at home and abroad.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

But instead of focusing on just one category of thing, I am going to mix it up and make it about various resources any entrepreneur might benefit from. The website is an invaluable archive of past stories, any of which you can listen to via mp3 or read via the transcripts provided. The best tweets I read come from @benkunz.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

When the panicked manager of the magazine test lab would call under a last minute deadline, we would apologize profusely as we sent the cables over – with beer, pizza, and our product manager to help them through any testing “issues”. Reply Dave Goulden , on April 2, 2009 at 9:55 am Said: Thanks for the great stories!

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

We tried to buy some software recently that the vendor wanted to price on the basis of third party uses, a category of activity uncontrolled by us. Posted at 05:09 PM in Managing Company Growth | Permalink. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Thinking about pricing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e. Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Future posts will have some Ben stories.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&# I love the theory of market type but I think it is an advanced topic. Don’t launch.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically. 2]   Aligning interests in structure: cost and risk.   About the same cost as #2 but more flexible if repayment terms slip a bit. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. five years.).

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Categories. Managing Company Growth. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches? How To Change The World » December 14, 2009. Starting Startups. So, Paul Graham is a brainiac.    Amen.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. Day 2 was much more interesting. Im anti check-in and have been a conscienious objector in the whole category.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. It was a management problem. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). Groupon, Inc. Founding Date: 2009. to the merchant.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. thank You steve blank!!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Pitches higher in the hierarchy tend to be more successful, and so if you can fit your company into one of those categories, you can get better results or better terms. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Reply Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank , on July 2, 2009 at 6:02 am Said: [.] Reply El efecto novedad « Ludosofía , on May 2, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Little did we know. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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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. I vividly remember the sales guy saying, “It’s only some kid in field service.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Hosting fees range from free to $99/month, but the most common starting point will run about $20/month for reasonably robust management and reporting. Consider, for example, archiving your podcasts for free via YouTube. One element podcasters typically don’t spend much time thinking about is the show category. Podcast promotion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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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. It is helping with recruiting by leveraging my networks and experience in a particular domain. Camaraderie? Perhaps all of the above. Camaraderie?

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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. Identify What Content Categories Matter Most. Common content categories to tag include: Author.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

See: Part 1) 2) What information would I need to prepare to properly recruit a [.] I’ve met a few folks along the way in webdev, not sure what Mike’s looking for exactly, but would be willing to help with a referral or 2 if interested. Mark 15 Nov 10 at 3:11 pm [.] to help him develop the idea.

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

« Picking Ventures: Part 2 | Main. Categories. Managing Company Growth. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Referrals: Worth Their Weight In Gold or Passing The Buck? » November 09, 2011. Helping you build and grow your startup. Enter your Email.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Your conversion rate for these leads will be astronomically higher than your standard website traffic, as much as 10x higher and in the worst case 2-3x higher. 2 Rob on 01.12.10 at 12:21 pm @#2 Rob – >I disagree. at 2:28 pm >Very interesting post, no. This is because the quality is so much better.

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