Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Disbelief, Anger, Resignation and Acceptance My cofounders and I went through the stages of disbelief, anger, resignation and acceptance. Are These Your Slides?

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JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Worry about the sales results.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The first name they came up with for the new magazine was Facts. Insomnia Cookies.

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MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. She, by the way, was busy on social media. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin. Digital Response. She served as the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

One person who doesn’t waste this opportunity is Sam Jones of Formation Media. I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. I run a company called Formation Media. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). The firm, (did I mention that the name rhymes with a type of pasta?) Remember – your adVenture’s time is precious.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. Just say the word and people take notice.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. We were sitting in the conference room of a large well-respected media firm when their CEO breezed in to give us an overview of who they were and how forward thinking their firm was. I used it in all presentations and gave it at industry conferences.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes. Agilent is a $5.8

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How I’m Treated Differently Than My Male Cofounder | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1FfuQL4. crowdspring.co/1FvSmkq.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton is a leader in Canada for a number of industries, from biotechnology and digital media to oil and gas. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I started my business because I saw an opportunity to help people save money at every online store, not just the big-name brand retailers. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- Our founders were tired of being lied to and ripped off by overpriced, green-washed brands filled with unnecessary chemicals.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. The name game. Melissa: OK.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. Edmonton is a leader in Canada for a number of industries, from biotechnology and digital media to oil and gas. Broadband.tv com for $575 million.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Color-Coordinated Compound Words Web startup names and logos are inextricably linked. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jamie is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. My guest today is Jamie Jay he's the founder and managing director of bottleneck distant assistance, a business he founded in 2016. We had the big wigs coming from San Francisco to visit our little radio station in central valley, California at the time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

No, I, you know, somebody actually kind of said that to me when I was speaking at an event and we were discussing social media and whether you have to be a personality in order to succeed Right. Speaking with Joe Rare, uh, founder of Level 9 virtual, Joe, I appreciate you stopping by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. In business today.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I’m sure its customers wonder, “Why is an organic grocer named RydeOn?”. The company was named FieldLink at that point; very few people know that name was ever part of PayPal. Peter, Max, Luke Nosek , and I held an off-site at my grandparents’ house in Gualala, California, to figure this out. PIVOT #1: CASH ON MOBILE.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s the story of Zima Media, and the co-founders, Michael Zima and Damien Bouvier. We had a chance to interview Michael Zima and asked about their story, how they started their business and the future of Zima Media. How did you come up with your business name? Zima Media Facebook: [link].

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. billion in venture funding.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

Thanks to Danay Escanaverino, LunaSol Media ! I had co-founded my first company in the music software space back when digital meant taking something that was formerly analog and rethinking it. So when we co-founded Babbel in Berlin in 2007, we just wanted to develop something better than the status quo. 6) Gap in the Market.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Social Media. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? Previous story. Daily Dose.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Jillian Darlington, right, the founder of the MomCo app, with her co-founder Beth Bryan. Initially, she cast a wide net, focusing on any angel investors who would meet with her locally in Southern California. On lazy days, I’ve wondered why no one has invented an app that allows me to outsource all my errands at once.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

Audacity is required to build an innovative startup, to invent something new, try to do things others say you cannot do, and Southern California needs many more audacious people in its tech and media startup ecosystem. In the history of Southern California, there has always been a large slice of creativity involved also.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li.

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