Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. “No, No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it.

Silicon Valley 207

Silicon Valley RSS Video San Diego 207

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. To Order Outside of the U.S.

Silicon Valley 217

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Because it isn’t until after first customer ship that a startup discovers that their initial hypotheses were simply wrong (i.e. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. steve Twitted by altgate , on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 pm Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 120

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. After debts have been paid, the remaining assets and cash reserves should be distributed to the owners/members in proportion to ownership interest. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 7, 2008

Read books via email or RSS in 5 minute segments. Uses a cloud based storage system to allow customized software distributions. CauseCaller.com. Cause Caller is a new way to power participatory democracy. It takes all the hassle out of creating phone banks and contacting politicians. Powering participatory democracy. Cloudsmith.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. Twitter – it is like email, SMS, or RSS. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching. During a recession and a cleantech backlash.

Social Network 108

Social Network Networking Detroit SMS 108

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. I hate business plan competitions. I now think that was a mistake. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

Business Plan 140

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 128

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 28, 2005

Since becoming an avid blogger and reader, it is clear to me that embedded ads in RSS feeds will be a key way for content owners to monetize their assets. First, the fact of consuming RSS feeds will typically reduce traffic at many publishers’ websites giving them less opportunity to monetize their assets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. More local links » Follow me on… RSS. Subscribe to the full RSS feed by email. Silicon Florist. Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. by Rick Turoczy.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle. So be sure to subscribe to RSS feeds, marijuana business outlets, and newsletters. You can also leverage messenger marketing platforms such as Mobile Monkey to run chatbox campaigns and engage your contacts on a more personal level.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. It’s quite an eye opener.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. You can try out any number of RSS feeds to stay in touch with the most influential, timely influencers on the entrepreneurial stage.

Mobile 48

Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I responded to their RFP by proposing that Ardent build the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center a distributed supercomputing environment with hundreds of Ardent personal supercomputers rather than a monolithic Cray supercomputer. And where are we today…distributed computing. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Diego RSS California 185

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004.

Audio 64

Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 64

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The ways I’m aware of for generating confidence intervals for averages/aggregates of a particular statistic (like, say, “Average monthly revenue per visitor of all visitors who would ever sign up under the pricing plan”) all have to assume something about the population distribution. Want more great articles? About Patrick.

Revenue 62

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I contacted the company and it turns out they have a royalty-free version that allows you to “freely distribute your own Applications that use [the component] as a runtime component without payment to [company].&# Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 31

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

As an early pioneer in RSS, Morever did a great job repositioning its business during the downturn and selling its information feeds into the enterprise and powering other search engines with news feeds. Recently, Microsoft announced that it was going to allow users to add RSS feeds to its MyMSN service powered by Moreover.

Search 60

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2011

When I extend this to my overall information consumption pattern, I realize that a lot of signal is once again getting lost in the noise, especially around the RSS feeds that I try to read regularly versus the endless amount of web media that is now distributed by RSS.

RSS 135

RSS Social Network Distribution Networking 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you start your company with insufficient resources and knowledge. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative.

Silicon Valley 212

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Lessons Learned “Selling&# My Micro-ISV “Within a week of my ‘for sale’ post I received 20 email inquiries, sent out nearly that many NDAs, distributed 13 sales packets, and spent about 10 hours answering questions via email.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Great post, very educational.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It might also be through twitter, Facebook, SMS, RSS, voice, etc. In fact, if Ning cared about making a really powerful tool for distribution discussion, it would allow the discussion to range across all of the channels with each user controlling the flow of the messages. How does that happen? Well likely it’s email. Don’t be a Ning!

Web 150

Web SMS HTML Distribution 150

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.” Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Now In Print!

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. But even with a partially filled-in chart, you can see what used to be disconnected information is now sorted by vertical market. Now In Print!

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Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 122

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In the end, the CEO couldn’t get his board to give us the cash in exchange for the Japanese distribution rights and some equity. We ended up raising money from Sega. I heard later that the slide disappeared from his presentation. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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