Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Their engineers hated us. Engineers as Salesmen I thought (and still do) that this sales guy walked on water.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

The new hire process, particularly at the executive level, is a significant decision and can be quite involved. While there are a number of factors in play which combine to impact the recruiting and hiring process, there is one constant that drives the process of the search – the CEO always sets the tone. Sell the Dream.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Also available is a new five-year visa for students studying STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, math), allowing an easier road to legal residency. To remain competitive, we need more engineers and scientists. start-up world.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Companies are great at improving their existing business model and value propositions, but fall short when it comes to inventing entirely new business models, value propositions, and growth engines. Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We hired union laborers to do that. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Theoretically, that’s why I hired them. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours. You don’t delegate life and death. None of this was an accident.

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Transformify

MAY 8, 2016

Steve is the President & CEO of Platinum Bay Technologies , a social enterprise and for-purpose software technology company headquartered in Irvine, California. Platinum Bay Technologies is a pioneer in hiring and employing people on the Autism Spectrum with software engineering career opportunities at market salary plus benefits.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more. See a recent Business Insider article with more of my thoughts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. Conviction.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. Contact TechCrunch. Thanks for the tip!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. In reality it would be another 20 years.) I also knew our customers.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention? Under California law, employers may own inventions that are “related to employer’s reasonably anticipated R&D.” Your invention must be “ non-obvious.” In the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Local crop dusters meant they could hire existing planes and simply attach their Hyper-spectral camera to any crop dusting plane. All of sudden what was an additional engineering and development effort now became a small, variable cost. If you can’t see the video above click here. So we’ve learned to live with our customers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2015

In my book “ Uplifting Service “, I wrote about an experience I had while dining at a luxury resort in California. Everyone had to embrace the service improvement mindset — engineering, ground staff, the technical crew, registration and sales, people at the counters, people at the gate area, people on the aircraft.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a service offered by many companies to help organically increase brand-awareness by helping your company be among the first found by one of the many internet search engines out there. Brandon Leibowitz is the founder of SEO Optimizers, a Digital Marketing Agency in Los Angeles, California.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

after a 24-hour journey from California. Next, also from Chennai, India, Vivek Ravisankar pitched Interviewstreet.com , a nifty concept for testing programmers' skill levels in various key languages to bypass the lengthy interviewing that goes into screening candidates in a hiring process. At 11 a.m., Discuss.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If we zoom even further, we see that the strongest interest in content marketing is found in two major startup markets – the East Coast and California. Google trends data strongly suggests that content marketing is hot in the United States, but much less so elsewhere in the world. Quality content will nearly always win.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, CA. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post. Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Companies are great at improving their existing business model and value propositions, but fall short when it comes to inventing entirely new business models, value propositions, and growth engines. Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This can be based in the founders (strong hiring relationships locally), the local industry (access to customers, partners, talent) or academic hubs (research, talent). They’re amazing technical teams without being myopically focused on just their engineering capabilities.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. are built on Drupal. Big boy applications. are as a region.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. You can build a team of 100+ people in LA without needing to hire outside of LA. Go on, have a bit of fun down memory lane!).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. For example, some startup sales execs believe hiring the core sales team is a key objective. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A good rule of thumb is to raise money when you need to start hiring, but this really depends on the context of your startup. Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers. Get the servers you need today and see if you can postpone the payment (you’ll be surprised). Who to raise from?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Shopify is a cost-effective eCommerce platform, especially when compared to the costs of hiring a developer to build a custom solution. Businesses can use Shopify’s built-in SEO features to help them rank higher on search engine results pages. Cost-Effective. SEO Friendly. Richards provided business development, React.Js

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product. Order Here.

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