Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Just because an idea is relevant for you, you may discover it is a super niche market and therefore will either require a dedicated marketing and promotion channel very specific to that audience or may not live up to the ‘unicorn’ expectations you were dreaming of.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

And as the internet shifts gears into Web3, founders in The Magic City working to find novel ways to monetize everything from attention to color will be pleased to know that they have the continued support of the biggest industry players.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. ” Dana & I took a chance on the founders early on.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. By referring to ?TO-as-a-Service

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

Starting this Monday, March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time I’ll be on the radio hosting the Bay Area Ventures program on Sirius XM radio Channel 111 – the Wharton Business Radio Channel. Future guests include Marc Pincus, founder of Zynga , and other interesting founders and investors. Oren Jacob – CEO ToyTalk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Yet, in my role as a small business advisor, I still see many founders and executives who see data and analytics primarily as a measurement device on current results, rather than using it to evolve the business strategy and direction. View and leverage data as an asset for future decisions, not just a measure of past actions.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 13, 2013

On one end of the spectrum, many start-ups think that great products sell themselves, while the other camp argues that it’s the channel and monetization that define a company’s success. 1) Start-ups are generally more successful when the founders are product-driven. The simple answer to the question is you need both.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). And as part of their transition to predictable processes, their founders may or may not still be at the helm. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO.

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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. It says what?!”).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Depending on the channel, delay until you’re ready for that channel.

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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. Do the channels you imagine to reach these customers actually want to work with you?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. It’s different when you’re co-founders and one person gets the title COO. You’re slitting that stuff?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Would love to get in touch. January 2, 2009 8:57 AM Abbas said.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 4, 2012

Powered by TechStars means that the three month program will be fueled by proven mentor-driven methodology and conclude with a demo day in which founders pitch their Kinect application to a room of potential investors. Microsoft may also collaborate with certain companies to publish their products through Microsoft distribution channels.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. Some founders are taken aback. What channels will you use (e.g., I always take a very different approach in early conversations. Other types of users?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

. “We wanted the inaugural conference to bring together speakers, practitioners and delegates to learn and discuss about how crowdsourcing and open innovation can play a key role in driving business successes, whether it’s about increasing productivity or revenue growth,” says Epi Ludvik Nekaj , CEO and founder of Crowdsourcing Week.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

And founders don’t necessarily refer great companies either – lot of founders are doing favors for their friends by putting in a good word. 4) How people present themselves in pitch emails tell me if I should NOT take a meeting I use pitch emails as a good proxy for finding the most on-point / sharp founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( They co-founded it with former U.S.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse).

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. Web businesses with at least two co-founders , ideally a technical founder and a non-technical founder are more likely to get investment than solo-preneurs. Entrepreneurship can be a lonely game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. And for the next several months the founders literally ran the business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). I do have faith that, whatever situation you find yourself in, you can always find ways to increase the speed of iteration.

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