YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2015

In most cases you can instantly spot a blog when you visit a URL because of the fact that most blogs look similar. This is regardless of the covered topic. Blogs do showcase similar elements for specific reasons. If you want to start your own blog and you want to do it right from the start, you want to look at resources like Start A Blog 123.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

 The company's ability to go to scale rapidly and (relatively) efficiently is going to be a very big part of any future success. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011. Picking Ventures: Part 2.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. For me this was one of the joys of entrepreneurship – constant learning and new insights. More on this in later posts.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. When I started teaching I launched project teams with this advice: All you need is a half a million dollars to start a company and at most a few million more to scale the company.” You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues.

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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. Wishful thinking aside, I do still want to raise children who feel the world is their oyster.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically.   If cash flow is far in the future and not guaranteed, (but early testing has proven we have a viable opportunity) then the entrepreneur probably is not going to have the wherewithal to support a current debt payment [1] structure.  « Leaving a Trail | Main. |

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Context here.) While the last post was titled “ You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job “, this post should probably be titled, “You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When You Offer Them a Job.&#

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Markets with Customer/Market Risk are those where the unknown is whether customers will adopt the product.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. Since our kids were little our Thanksgiving tradition was to head to Hawaii with friends and eat Thanksgiving dinner under the palm trees to the sound of the waves next to the warm ocean. (

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How To Think About The Future. They face lots of competition and few barriers to entry so the future growth and profitability can legitimately be questioned, but still… what Andrew Mason and the rest of the team have built in such a short time is truly remarkable. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. June 5, 2011. Groupon, Inc.

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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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. You have to wonder: does the VC you have on your board today have the right skill set to help you succeed in today’s economic environment?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. This is the first of a series of posts on the company.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Future of the Accounting Profession. Intuit Future of Small Business Resources. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. OReilly Radar.

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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. Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. This post, which is divided in two parts, is the story of the first time it happened to me.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

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+.). Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality. Like Tweet. Google VP: Here’s How to Get Bought By Us. July 18, 2012 by Chris Taylor.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Brands have jumped on the podcasting bandwagon. Slack, GE, Shopify, Basecamp, and Sephora all have large, active followings. Podcasts’ popularity means opportunity—and competition. If you don’t have a thoughtful strategy and process, it’s easy to waste time and effort. Let’s get started. . Podcasting as a marketing channel. Image source ).

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

How To Think About The Future. Sometimes even what seem like incremental innovations can have radical impact, if talented and creative people start with that blank canvas and envision the future as it should be not as a derivative of how it’s been. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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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.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. Contact Me. You are here: Home > Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Not All Traffic Is Created Equal. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Depending on the size of the venture firm they may have one to three EIR’s who stay an average of a year or so.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. 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. That’s OK, because we knew better.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw someone confront a worldview they didn’t expect. All of us knew who they were, understood how important this site was for our country, and proud of the work we were doing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

“Men have become the tools of their tools” – Henry David Thoreau. 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. To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. Therefore, the more you test and improve your site, the higher it should appear in the rankings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The whole pitch was about how valuable robots could be in the future. But these students completely failed to address the one and only question on their audiences mind: can you three guys really build the robots of the future? Usually we think of pitches in the context of raising money, but that is only one of many pitch situations.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Ernest Hemingway One of an entrepreneur’s greatest strengths is their relentless pursuit of a goal. But few realize how this differs from most of the population. Watching others try to solve problems reminded me why entrepreneurs are different. She had sent several emails to the resource center asking for help.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is true, but it’s also true that VC’s can’t see the future, which is part of the reason they invest in multiple companies; to hedge their bets. This is true, but it’s also true that VC’s can’t see the future, which is part of the reason they invest in multiple companies; to hedge their bets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. The slides below go with the video. Just click through them as you watch the video. …………… Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). et al) were down on the peninsula.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? A/B testing – for all the content out there about testing, huge amounts of people still mess it up. From testing the wrong things to running the tests incorrectly, there are lots of ways to get it wrong. Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide: 1. What is A/B testing and How Does It Work?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. From 1946 until 1950, Stanford’s Electronic Research Lab conducted basic research in microwave tubes. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds military to rearm and mobilize.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Here are a few examples of what I’m currently implementing across the three basic categories that I look to balance. Problem : Value time in future lower than time today. Solution : I now label and archives these and set aside 60m slots on Tuesday and Thursday nights to respond.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. Tim is considering working on a book, a startup survival guide for CTOs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Looking at your website, website’s structure, your SEO plan, and content or editorial plan, overlap significantly in the category of strategy, and while you have to address them in an integrated way, you also have to start thinking differently about content and how you’re going to use it to meet some of your business objectives.

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