SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Thinking big, destiny and naysayers — three things in the life of a startup founder. Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Thinking big, destiny and naysayers — three things in the life of a startup founder. Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 120

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. Peter and his co-founders were committed to making Prezi a global company.

Cofounder 120

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I catch up with Brian and we just talk about a whole host of things. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Transcript of The Key to Success? Transcript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Sure, everyone knows that getting customer feedback is important. Congratulations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013. How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

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. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it. Edwin: May I.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 30, 2010 Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator , sent out a tweet on Friday saying: “Convertible notes have won. You can bootstrap your way into existence. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch. Dying at 70?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. I continue to work on additional programs and products for bootstrapped and angel-backed startups, as well as for enterprise and future entrepreneurs. Would love to participate personally.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy.

Widget 204

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Our market cap is around $170B. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank Rimalovski , executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute joined me in the studio to discuss how the Entrepreneurial Institute is transforming the culture at NYU; and Frank Sculli , co-founder of BioDigital Inc shares what he wishes he’d known before he started his company. Frank Sculli. What’s the rationale?

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 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. But there was one fatal flaw.

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Hippoland

JUNE 29, 2018

The premise/mission for Hustle Con was to provide tactical company-building advice for non-technical founders. And in fact, people will pay you to be a part of your audience that you can later market other products / services to. If you are doing an event to get people to do customer development with, you need to stay top-of-mind.

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Hippoland

JUNE 29, 2018

The premise/mission for Hustle Con was to provide tactical company-building advice for non-technical founders. And in fact, people will pay you to be a part of your audience that you can later market other products / services to. If you are doing an event to get people to do customer development with, you need to stay top-of-mind.

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Revenue Product Audience Channel 48

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Email marketing.

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