Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? A lot of funded startups fail due to expectation mismatch between the founders and the investors. Crowdfunding.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. And like feedback on a simple microphone sound system, this would occasionally boil over into screeching.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff ” It’s great reading for anyone that leans too heavily on the left side of the brain. One can pay a one-time fee to a third party consultant to help one find and perform due diligence on such advisors.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Github – repository for your source code plus task lists and collaboration with your developers. Lean Domain Search – suggests all available.coms with a given keyword somewhere in the name. The Funded – reviews and testimonials of investors from the founders’ perspective; do your investor due diligence here.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Teams that have worked together in the past simpy are well-positioned to out-execute those that haven't due to their common history, language and relationships. Senior executives have never been harder to secure.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?

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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. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

You have a limited amount of your own time to spend on this advice reception, so do your due diligence and give out your invitations with care. I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

A key aspect of our personal due diligence is then is assessing our partners, particularly learning how they react under stress." — Whitney Johnson , Co-Founder, Rose Park Advisors. In Running Lean , Ash Maurya says that you know when you have spoken to enough customers when you can start to predict what they will say.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science. Recruit them yourself.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). White Day Hackathon. 9am – 6pm. ?San

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. During this year they.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. Understanding your customers. Typography.

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