SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

human engineering VC Cafe Photo credit: By imaginedhorizons (Flickr). ” Question: What is Human Engineering? 2) Manage your skills - building on self-awareness, focus on doing what you’re good at, but invest in developing the rest. Wikipedia ). Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

With this high market growth, now is a great time to break into the web development landscape. Once you have obtained the proper resources, you should establish your business plan and decide which services you are going to offer. Definitely, a web design company is a profitable business opportunity this year.

Technical Review 113

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

However, there are various things to consider when you think of crafting a business plan, and one of the most important is online dental marketing. Also, register a domain name for your dental website that suits your business name. Website Development. Search Engine Optimisation. Logo Designing.

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Marketing Social Media Startup SEO 200

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. It’s all about making your business life easier, doing what works best, getting the best results by tracking what works and always improving.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

By writing a good business plan, you can transition into business strategy and reach your goals in a clearer and more organized way. Evolving your business is surely among your main objectives, and the most efficient way of achieving this is by focusing on digital marketing strategies. Web development.

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Startup Australia Web Development Forecast 109

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models. All of this in one magazine, with no hype, just a continual stream of great ideas.

Technical Review 327

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 327

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

You envision your business as the next Uber or Spotify, yourself as the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, reaching that prestigious ‘unicorn’ startup status in record time. Like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably mapped out the business plan, dreamed up the layout and you’re already snapping up domains and emailing developers with your plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. What drives the economic engine?

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Each of the businesses listed below had help from the SBA and overcame their challenges to become success stories. You might see your own business reflected in these case studies — which may provide insights into areas of growth for your business. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2019

That beautifully written, meticulously mapped-out business plan might be the problem. Ask any MBA instructor what you need to get an idea off the ground, and you’ll probably be told to create a business plan. Setting out without any kind of game plan can lead to chaos. No company’s growth follows a business plan.

Business Plan 113

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models. All of this in one magazine, with no hype, just a continual stream of great ideas.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. This all-star team of 4 undergraduates and a JD/MBA developed new ways to provide logistical support to maritime forces in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away. Every good business plan needs an early section which sizes the total market opportunity, and then breaks down that total into the most relevant segments for your focus.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Go lean with your planning. Finally, in startup culture, few care about your 40-page business plan they made you create in business school. Chances are that by the time it’s done printing, it could be outdated with a new idea or new information you have about your business. That’s the tricky part.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

Participants receive the financial and technical support needed to mature nascent technologies that face long development cycles to the proof-of-concept level, helping them get to the point where they can access conventional sources of financial support to scale and launch into the marketplace. ClearFlame Engines. Source: Pexels.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses. Lessons Learned.

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Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The developments happening in artificial intelligence (AI) allow startups to easily automate everything. Mobileoptx, a medical equipment startup, developed an innovative hardware device that enables physicians to capture endoscopic examinations by means of an iPhone. Artificial intelligence for enhanced speed and efficiency.

Technical Review 135

Technical Review Operations Technology Artificial Inteligence 135

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , National Science Foundation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2016

In no small way, the success of your venture will depend on the details of your business plan. It should outline your business goals and how you will achieve them. Also, your business plan should incorporate risk-management tactics and financial projections. Develop a comprehensive marketing plan.

Business Plan 100

Business Plan Intellectual Property Social Media Small Business Administration 100

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The class is designed for students who said they want a hands-on experience in what it takes to build a startup – not just writing a business plan or listening to lectures. This year, at one of the universities where I teach in the engineering school, our quarter was going to start right after the New Year.

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Lean Customer Development Business Model Email 278

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. Teaching In the Big Apple.

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Customer Development Business Model Developer Design 270

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220