SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

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Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Freemium was a going out of business strategy. And no amount of business success is enough if you don’t have time with your family. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show.

Cofounder 145

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 145

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Jim lectures at University of California Santa Barbara and elsewhere on the process of discovering successful business models. Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. But believing it all will put you out of business. .

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Sweden 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven. If we already knew who the customer was, how they would behave, how much they would pay, and how to reach them, this wouldn’t be a disruptive innovation. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs. But $10.00?

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Freemium was a going out of business strategy. And no amount of business success is enough if you don’t have time with your family. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development. Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. Here’s how they knew their idea could be a business. — Customer discovery paid off for Kerry. ” . …

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur North America Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. I had needed to ask customers four simple questions.

Silicon Valley 172

Silicon Valley RSS Vertical California 172

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Saul Klein • Nov 16, 2010 I think the important part of the under-appreciation of the distribution part is the lack of formal structure in business activities and the lack of proper communication arising from it. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy.

San Diego 40

San Diego RSS Lean Elevator Pitch 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. I am now ready to move into the customer validation phase. Great idea.

Lean 102

Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment 102

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. small business CRM. Codeacademy.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

You can bootstrap your way into existence. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. believe that is certainly true.

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84