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. However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Seeing as how it’s the end of another year, I thought I would take a shot at a 10 best list of my very own. 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. This is what I get when I read Paul Graham.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno. The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress. We judged based on a number of criteria, which can be seen at the bottom of this page , but they include things like usefulness, demo, UI, and differentiation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Fred Terman – the Cover Story I’d heard of Terman but I didn’t really know what he did – his biography said that he was one of the preeminent radio engineers in the 1930′s literally writing the textbooks. So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. Are These Your Slides?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. 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?” Titles are not the same as what your job is.

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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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

In 1978 when I joined my first company , information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. I was an idiot. I bet you weren’t confused about what hot meant after that. Berkeley and at Stanford. What did you do?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background. So much for timing.

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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! Which Book Would You Be Most Likely to Buy? Either that or these podcasts have a lot fewer listeners than I thought. Nah, it’s the velocity thing.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

While on paternity leave this week I read seven books. I haven’t had that much spare time, but I’ve been following my “if I’m not taking notes, toss it&# methodology, and wound up skimming through the better part of five of them. I recommend it. Check out my book Like this post?

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

RSS Archive. I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. Here are some suggestions on scaling, particularly in a resource-constrained, fast-growing environment that can’t always afford to do things “the right way” (i.e., Rajivs blog. July 12, 2012. Rajiv Eranki.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  I've seen that more than once, but I thought I was the only one talking about it.    It is very unusul and I wouldn't do it very often, but it's a possibility.   Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice they offer.  Starting Startups.   Yup. 

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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. I knew everything about our operating system, hardware and applications – and I was going to prove it.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

People constantly ask if I know people, where to find the so-called ’startup-engineers’, or even where the can find someone like me. Here are some things to think about for those on the recruiting side: 1. We like sitting at home or in coffee shops on our laptops coding away fun projects.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, One of the issues I see with successful agile teams is the lack of strategic thinking on why and how they solve prioritized business needs. I call this the "happy place" because there is low business and technical risk, but it doesnt imply "easy".

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How should I finance my new venture? This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    But details in each category vary dramatically.   Things don’t work that way in the real world, of course.  Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

First I need to make sure what we really learned was information we could base a company strategy on. As it happened there were quite a few industry analysts following software companies like Adobe, Aldus, and Quark, who happened to be the suppliers of the four key applications our customers said they used.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Share with 1 click: All entrepreneurs face the question: “when should I form a company?” ” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. Blog Categories.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. One of her first comments was, “I didn’t know you even worked here. I walked into the VP of Sales’ office and with my knees trembling, I politely asked for the job. All I had to do was ask. What’s Marketing?

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I think the part time CTO could work. They tend to be capable planners when it comes to issues like performance and security. I think thats the person you need. My colleagues and I interact with startups a fair amount because were consultants. It feels like tomorrows trouble to me but its something to keep in mind.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

If you’re an active podcast listener, you likely use popular podcast platforms (i.e. podcatchers”) like iTunes , Soundcloud , and Google Podcasts to download or stream one of more than 1 million podcasts available today. Consider mapping out the show with minute marks, like the professionals. Selecting a podcast host.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Groupon’s S-1: From Zero to Like… Billions in 30 Months. 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. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I I just want to do strategy.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8000 peripheral chips included the new “ Serial Communications Controller &# ( SCC ). I vividly remember the sales guy saying, “It’s only some kid in field service. I vividly remember the sales guy saying, “It’s only some kid in field service.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I will try to present my notes under topic headings that Tim mentioned, but since this was a open free formed discussion, I am sure I couldn’t capture everything and not all my notes are completely accurate. I highly recommend this! If you aren’t comfortable with these things, get comfortable with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In general, we want to do the things that increase the value of the business, and we want to avoid doing the things that reduce it. Items that paint a big picture include revenue by major product area, cost of goods, and operating expenses by category. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. His website is [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

I talked to people who have years of experience in growth, SEO, and optimization to figure out where the intersection is between CRO and SEO. And recent trends have placed on page UX factors higher in importance that old factors like keyword density. What they worried about, generally, were these four things : Content cloaking.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. But now, standing there, I realized how people felt when they saw the first flickering images in a movie theater. I stood there believing that video on computers was another – and equally as memorable.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Blog blog archive. I can’t tell you how often a client calls me up and says something like this: “Matt, we have this great new consultant who is going to make introductions to us to [pick type of business partner]. ” To which I normally say, “don’t bother.” Quora Answers. About Matt.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Personal Theme comes with an admin options area in which you can do many things. This short video I put together for you below will take you through most of these options, so watch it now for the details… Visit The Personal Theme Website. I would have liked to see some more options in the admin panel too.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Maybe It’s Me When I got to the SuperMac, our Marketing Communications group told me about our “award-winning&# retail packaging for our graphics boards. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused. It was black with absolutely no compelling reason to buy – no awards, no why-to-buy message, nothing.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? with 3 comments Tweet I regularly receive questions from readers about my experience working on the web, at Cheezburger, and so forth. This is tough, and something I hear a lot.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. In technical terms, your period of “exploration” can be much longer, as you want to be damn sure that you don’t commit a Type I error (false positive). Table of contents What is A/B testing? What is A/B testing?

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