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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. 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.” What I’m about to describe here is quite different.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Instead of focusing on “technical specs&# like the rest of the category, we are redefining to Information Delivery as the category with time/cost to Actionable Info as the metric, which is something we can compete on very well. I am starting to execute an eerily similar approach in the Big Data analytics market.

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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. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series). Enter your Email.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

We had to write our parallelizing and vectorizing compilers and build our own high-end graphics boards, and write our own 3d graphics subroutine language – and put in all in a box that could fit in an office. Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com (8 million hits it says!) .    He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com (8 million hits it says!)   He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com (8 million hits it says!) Categories. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. April 2013.

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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. 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. Categories. Enter your Email.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Darcy Murphy , on March 21, 2009 at 9:46 pm Said: I’m really impressed with your stories – in fact, that’s what I like about this blog the most, you’re writing stories. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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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

MAY 22, 2009

Write it before you leave for the show, so you can send the mailing immediately upon our return. Someone from your company has to be designated the opportunity monitor, responsible for coordinating potential partner information and disseminating it in writing after the show. Physical booth: What worked? What didn’t?

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

RSS Archive. If people find this useful, I’ll try to come up with more tips and write a part 2. You could use your shell like this: cut -d’ ’ -f1-4 log.txt | xargs -L1 -I_ date +%s -d_ | uniq -c | (echo “plot ‘-’ using 2:1 with lines”; cat) | gnuplot. Rajivs blog. July 12, 2012.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). 2) Groupon’s Far More International Than Most Realize : Most casual observers know that Groupon’s been buying similar daily deal businesses in other global regions (starting in May 2010), and doing some organic expansion internationally too.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.), There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Sports Scores The next day, as I drove to our next meeting the sales guy was intently reading the sports section of the newspaper and as I glanced over he seemed to be writing down the scores. After the meeting our sale rep took me aside and asked if “perhaps I wouldn’t mind watching him on the next call.“ I wondered if he had a bookie.

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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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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. A few weeks ago I was writing up a detailed case study of its launch (published inside the Academy). 2 Rob on 01.12.10 at 12:21 pm @#2 Rob – >I disagree.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The classic example of this is the question of whether to write for humans or for Google bots. Keyword stuffing thankfully becomes ridiculous in the eyes of Google (as well as the reader) and you should write for the humans that are buying the stuff you’re selling. When Product Reviews Hurt Conversions.

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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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Want to learn more about me? Try About the author.

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

« Picking Ventures: Part 2 | Main. Categories. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series). Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. » November 09, 2011.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. 2 Publish Often. Write a blog post (or incorporate review link into one of a similar subject). Many people find shows they want to listen to by browsing through categories in podcast directories.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Blog blog archive. The most you lose is 1 or 2 months of vesting on the stock. Startups writing patents: Patent Office Announces “Prioritized” Examination for a Fee. Categories. A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Reply John Bumgarner , on July 2, 2009 at 5:43 pm Said: Thanks for the words Steve! Sigh* If only more nerds were around to advise politicians. Reply YA , on May 10, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: “Nobel laureate physicist Andrei Sakharov was in a gulag at the time. &# 1. Never in Gulag, only in exile.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) BTW, the definition of entrepreneurship I describe at 2:50 into the video is described in detail in the post “ You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur.&# Instead of a brawl it turned out to be collegial, entertaining and informative.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality. Do this before you write code you may end up throwing away.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Writing about technology, focusing on Oracle, as well as whatever else catches my eye. strata2012 >> 2012/02/28 The "2 most important algorithms in predictive modeling" talk at #strataConf is just amazing know-how for the taking. Categories. Consulting (2). Methodology (2). February 2011 (2). June 2010 (2).

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

Categories. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series). Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main. The great day has arrived. 

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

can use for themselves or 2 on sell. the amount of high page rank quality sites in EVO 2 is breathtaking by comparison to BF etc. Though I can tell you I have always used the content supplied by EVO 2 each and every time to get the rankings mate, I don’t think you need to go down this path. Protect your asset.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Other articles you might like The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Free online finance classes for entrepreneurs (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks One Comment → Hendro permalink Been there, done that. =) Agree with you that you have to feel the pain to internalize the lesson. What do you think?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Like Eric Sink writes: “Marketing is not a Post-Processing Step&#. 2 Aiesha on 10.07.09 at 2:21 pm [.] the original post here: Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse … By admin | category: mind software | tags: camcorders, creator, interview-the-creator, [.]

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Element #2: Social Proof I’ll run through these quickly. Element #4: Offer/Value You can write great copy on your landing page, and design a great layout… but if what you’re asking for and offering on your landing page doesn’t boil down to a great offer then you’re wasting your time. And don’t forget to test, test, test.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But today he writes about the one time he just had to get closure. Reply eortiz , on November 19, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: What an AWESOME story. ceo Reply Beth Albert , on November 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm Said: I remember when we sold that machine. Love it… Great closure. I thought that was interesting.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

This is incredibly powerful leverage , if you want to meet important people in your industry, or as an affiliate marketing technique, because you can just write about something often enough if you want a top ranking for a certain term or name. Bonus 2: My Live Presentation On Buying and Selling Websites.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

And you get this bonus #1 and bonus #2 for a value of $10K! On top of that, it gives you some journaling tool to raise your self awareness and let you write down your values / mission statement / and past achievements. making it easy for people to find coaches 2. Look at all these testimonials!).

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2014

We will use a fictional company named “SaaSco” Create a Process Category. We will use these boards to house individual process categories. ” Create a sub category. Click in the upper right hand corner of the “Doing” list and select “Archive this list” and the list should disappear.

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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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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

And you get this bonus #1 and bonus #2 for a value of $10K! On top of that, it gives you some journaling tool to raise your self awareness and let you write down your values / mission statement / and past achievements. making it easy for people to find coaches 2. Look at all these testimonials!).

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