Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? Founders don’t do startups because they’re searching for a huge financial windfall. (See 1:03 in the video below).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). Working for local startups creates real world intensity and urgency in the course.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

You have an authentic passion for technology, startups, and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. Formulating and executing on NextView’s social media strategy and managing multiple social media presences and communication channels. You have effective written communication skills with an established body of work. A Final Note.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Every person requires some level of positive human interaction with co-workers and others to be satisfied and productive. It is your responsibility to facilitate regular communication between team members and all constituents via all channels, including social media, email, and video. Social interactions. Spiritual connections.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. 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. Nick Frandsen is a co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. It’s genius!

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Luke Campbell – Cofounder. ” Marta Meszaros – Founder. Never give up.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Others join startups to strike out on their own. Most great technology startups – Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla – were built by a team led by an entrepreneur. These are entrepreneurial skills you need to rapidly acquire or find a co-founder who already has them. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As we put the final touches on Lean Startup Conference 2018 , I wanted to take a moment to share more about some of the panels, workshops, and events. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Nonprofit – An organization whose mission primarily isn’t to make profits for the owners but to channel revenue it generates to fund a social mission or cause. Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

These investments are a tremendous help to your startup because they will serve as a stepping stone to reach your target eventually. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable. When considered, “seed funding” describes the initial sums of funds a startup raises.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. My own anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of tech startups being founded is on the rise again. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

The way in which small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach online marketing is being revolutionized by SpeedyBrand, a cutting-edge startup that is a pioneer in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) content creation. This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A startup is not a part-time activity. Trying to do a startup while keeping your day job may doom you to failure. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 22, 2016

.” After that, we address a couple more big challenges facing founders, all with one aim: debunk the myth that the “soft stuff” is at all less important than the “harder” skills we typically explore on the show. In the end, the biggest reason startups fail is due to cofounder conflict. (We

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. The startup world is a perfect microcosm for these strange times — even in normal circumstances, a startup is always on a tightrope, one step away from unicorn status or financial ruin. Short of layoffs, there are other channels for savings.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g.,

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View from Seed

JUNE 20, 2017

Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the cofounders of Crashlytics, which Twitter acquired in 2013. Today, as angel investors, they see dozens of entrepreneurs every quarter, and they’ve joined the show today to help us answer some tough questions: How should you structure communication with your cofounder?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Arif Bhalwani is the co-founder and CEO of Third Eye Capital (TEC) in Toronto, Canada. Strategic capital was invested in rationalizing and updating the product line and tapping into new sales channels that aligned with emerging industry trends. The firm has made more than $4.5

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’re looking to triple the size of our engineering and product team within the next year,” said Sandy Jen, co-founder and chief technology officer for Honor. “We In the coming years, this technology will open a channel to allow seniors more streamlined access to the products and services they need at home?—?creating

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

See Also: How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. Oftentimes you’ll be able to find the answers to these questions in forums, customer reviews, or interviews with the founders. From backpackers to business owners.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

Entrepreneurs know all too well the challenges of running their budding startup. Today there are an abundance of online tools that could make your life simpler, your startup operations more efficient, and your business even more successful. But there’s no need to worry anymore. Let’s get stuck in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. We read every day about new startups that have raised capital and have just recently launched their app or platform. As Zach Miller notes, a number of Israeli startups are catching on.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

Adopting the models of Emotional Intelligence to startups. So, to build a successful product, startups need to really understand their users – what motivates them, how do they ‘work’, what do they respond to. Startups that can take this tools from a personal level to a company/product level are likely to excel.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

If you’re running a startup, working for one, or just considering turning an idea into a company, calling your work life “busy” is a severe understatement. Here are five essential, efficient ways to eliminate guesswork and make your startup a success on social media. Startup Example: Zappos. Startup Example: Cloudera.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

And building a startup is not for the faint of heart. The tools and temperament needed to get from startup idea to startup success were the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Prior to founding Andela , he co-founded 2U , an education technology startup that went public in 2014.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? The real answer is that the phrase “growth hacking” caught fire because of its particular emphasis on growth, which determines the life and death of every startup. Startups are facing growth challenges that were not apparent a few years ago.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you showed me a bunch of random early stage startups and asked me to select the ones disproportionately likely to be successful, I’d bet on the teams which are able to turn a hypothesis into a test and a test into learnings with the greatest compounding velocity. Because that’s what startups do, they change. Adding people.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right. The Pebble smartwatch had its humble origins on the crowdfunding platform and so did the top startup on our list, Ouya. Startups abounded in every sector. Or it could be the next Facebook. Time will tell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

He is the CEO and co-founder of CoSchedule , the web’s most popular marketing calendar and the fastest growing startup in North Dakota. Ranked as the best business tool built by a startup on Entrepreneur.com, CoSchedule helps more than 10,000 marketing teams stay organized in 100+ countries around the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

In a minute, I’ll share tips on how your small business or startup can hire a good lawyer for your business. During that time, I counseled and represented clients (from small businesses to internet startups to Fortune 100 companies) in transactional matters and in complex trials all over the United States.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Your existing clients are your most significant source of insights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, if you are an entrepreneur seeking investment or a cofounder, there is no substitute for networking at industry and startup conferences in your area. You need to establish communication channels and mutual trust, so the relationship can extend beyond the current meeting or interaction.

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