Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to Steal Killer Sales Copy Straight from Your Prospects’ Mouths – [link].

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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. press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. and Amazon.fr).

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? So I’m in the process of booking speaking engagements over the next several months on how developers can launch and market their first product.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. To do this you need human resources beyond techo-nerds – sales, marketing, strategy, bus dev. Again, New York blows California away here. (3)

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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. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Austin is good at software, Dallas is good at retail, Houston is good at oil & gas, and San Antonio is good at cybersecurity (just for a few examples).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales. Sales Jobs |. CyberCoders. Microsoft Corp.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Today, for hardware and software it’s consumers – specifically consumer Internet companies – that are the drivers of innovation.

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