Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

” Since then, startups and growth marketers have latched onto the statement. Here’s a look at pirate metrics (AARRR) as designed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups … Image Source. You give each of the three categories a number from 0 to 10, which spits out a number for the idea as a whole. Confidence: 10.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. My colleagues and I interact with startups a fair amount because were consultants. I think the part time CTO could work.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My own anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of tech startups being founded is on the rise again. Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. New Web Order.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

If you’re a startup looking for the fabled goldmine of a Google exit, here’s the guy you’ll want to meet: David Lawee. One got added to the latter category Tuesday: design firm Cuban Council, which will be shipping off a portion of its team to help improve the look of Google+.). (One

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup Resources. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. LOVELLETTERS: Advice for startup geeks.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. Like you said, search the startup community.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. Add all your points up. If you have more than 10 points, you can use a dev shop.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. Let’s face it; the make up of your team is absolutely critical to the success of any startup. The fun part of about startups is that things will go wrong ; usually catastrophically in an “Oh my God, oh my God, we’re all going to die” kind of wrong.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Spend ten minutes talking to any investor in the community who sees a lot of deals and inevitably you find that the companies that've been around are largely the same. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Market Math | Main. | » March 04, 2011.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

PR often gets lumped into the same category as advertising and marketing—which is why so many small businesses assume they’re covering all their bases by buying ad space in the local Yellow Pages and sponsoring posts on Facebook. Read through their archives to get a feel for the types of topics and trends that make them tick.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better communities.   You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better communities.   They create wealth for themselves, their employees and their communities. It was bootstrapped.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Joseph Campbell’s insight of the repeatable patterns in mythology is equally applicable to building a successful startup. All startups (whether a new division inside a larger corporation or in the canonical garage) follow similar patterns—a series of steps which, when followed, can eliminate a lot of the early wandering in the dark.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

The more you contribute to the application’s community, the higher you level. I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. For example, I introduced a level system. Another successful concept is the 30 day challenge tool.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

The more you contribute to the application’s community, the higher you level. I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. For example, I introduced a level system. Another successful concept is the 30 day challenge tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

There are three categories of workers: those who work for money (not enough for a living but enough to pay for books or gifts), those who work for fun (some tasks can be entertaining) and those who work out of boredom. When the forum is empty, why would someone join your community? cents to leave a comment on a blog).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

I continued to give these briefings as a consultant to ESL even after I had joined my first chip startup; Zilog. I left ESL and the black world for a career in startups; semiconductors, supercomputers, consumer electronics, video games and enterprise software. It had no PR agency. It shunned publicity. It had Hidden in Plain Sight.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. It has become an integral part of startup culture. The irony is that few startups fit these criteria.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. was somewhat incomprehensible at first to the Energy and EPA team. But they’re smart, let’s see what happens.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

But there are several other categories of requirements which are at the lower end. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Why do you think you were able to avoid this? steve Siddharth Chawla , on April 16, 2009 at 11:51 pm Said: Sounds interesting. Your suggestion makes perfect sense. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” They were all from somewhere in the intelligence community. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? And I could have sworn they all had the same badge.) Now In Print!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 18, 2010

from a.net developer point of view (1) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks 7 Comments → Benjamin permalink Clear and high-value content. 0) Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services (1) Slides: Why Ruby on Rails rocks?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But the vast majority of apps aren’t in this category, and the vast majority of people don’t have the resources to make that model work. August 18th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JANUARY 20, 2011

Anyway, I went for the “Welcome to the TaskArmy community.” EDIT: Based on Alistair’s comment, I have changed how I show the facebook and google login feature: Other articles you might like Landing page improvements: a case study (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Online experiments No comments yet Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. My wife knew a bit about startups. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Our friends in the VC community, of course, will learn an industry fairly well, and will engage experts as well, so as not to miss something. Posted at 06:06 AM in Funding startups | Permalink. Categories. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 18, 2010

from a.net developer point of view (1) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks 7 Comments → Benjamin permalink Clear and high-value content. 0) Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services (1) Slides: Why Ruby on Rails rocks?

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