Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to do that, they decided three things were crucial: teaching people to code, creating a sense of place around the tech industry, and proving it's possible to build and ship world-class software from places like Fresno. A company headquartered in Fresno, California. When COVID hit, Jake and Irma jumped into action.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.” Product Development Diagram 1.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Are These Your Slides?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. What did our customers think? Step on the scale. We pitched.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. There appears to be a saturation point within this market space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

We met at a private party hosted by his venture partner Mike Yavonditte and I outlined my concerns for the lack of precision of the algorithm. And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles! I was used to this debate.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Startups in Bend. Bend Startup Ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. Law firm partners often have anger management issues, but the thing about anger is that it is not always wrong to be angry — if somebody is angry at you because you did something wrong, then that anger is valid.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. I’ve tried different things in India – sales training, software sales, advising entrepreneurs. You’re Hired, You’re Fired.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

He struck up his friendship with Jobs as the result of an introduction by a mutual friend who had met Jobs at their California high school. Perhaps you’ll find the perfect business partner, a ready-made group of testers or customers, or a way to utilize college systems or publications to promote your products and services.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. But I also leaned that is actually ok. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Hacking for Journalism at Stanford. Sign up here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays. Better search.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A four-time tech entrepreneur, his most recent company Immersion Neuroscience is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dr. Paul J.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, etc.,) Someone from your company has to be designated the opportunity monitor, responsible for coordinating potential partner information and disseminating it in writing after the show. this may be a useful read.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. For example, Apple needed music from their record label partners to make the original iPod and iTunes experience complete. The Nine Teams Present.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Media & Marketing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Human Resources (HR).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. We’d rather partner with those firms.” “Listen. ” Boom.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. They knew they needed to get into industrial software and data. The change agents were getting eaten by the business-as-usual.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. Eric Ries : That's a technique and a form of social engineering, almost, that is usually thought of as coming from the software world. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. One of the first things we did.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. By this point, we had moved out to Northern California. The background in software, I just saw that a lot of my cousins. We're in Santa Clara County.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The networking company will close the deal early next year with Cariden Bay, which specializes in software for planning, designing and engineering computer networks. The round, which was participated in by Growth Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Accolade Partners, among others, brings the company’s total financing to date to $68.5

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. We frequently promote this idea at Palo Alto Software; our founder Tim Berry even wrote the book on it. Starting a Business cat cafe lean planning' The post Cats With Your Coffee?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. My wife knew a bit about startups.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California. If it’s so strictly adornment you might turn people off.

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