Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). Reply Customer Development – Not Just for Web Startups » Biotech by the Bay , on May 1, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: [.] The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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blog.wepay.com

APRIL 28, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. « Greek Billing Services: Collecting Fraternity Dues WePay just got its first commercial!

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MAY 28, 2009

Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

This could be useful information for those that want to get involved with a early stage start-up and want to evaluate it but not necessarily for funding. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. What are all the important questions that a VC will or should ask?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Citibank First to Test Revolutionary.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Prosperati is proudly powered by WordPress 3.0.1 | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS). Author: colinwong Colin Wong is the CEO of Zoecity, a social media company. Properties include zoecity.com, sharein.com, and tr.my. Related Posts Can A Startup Do OffShore Development?

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. iOS Developer Anki, Inc. Powered by Personforce. About & Staff.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Privacy Policy.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. 13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Web Developer. More local links » Follow me on… RSS. Subscribe to the full RSS feed by email. Silicon Florist. by Rick Turoczy.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. at this stage.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? That’s why early stage companies aren’t run by accountants with spreadsheets.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to).

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. John, We have an early stage startup here in Nashville called Enterstream.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) you know they’re expensive in time, dollars and resources. Did this help them to understand your company/product Part 2 of the memo, to be posted tomorrow: using a trade show to generate leads. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The Customer Development model delineates all the customer-related activities in the early stage of a company into their own processes and groups them into four easy-to-understand steps: Customer Discovery , Customer Validation , Customer Creation , and Company Building. is no right or wrong in the early days of startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

However, for the Web 2.0 Since my class was using the Customer Development text, I updated this diagram on to reflect in which markets the process was appropriate. For example, I told my students doing life sciences projects it would be 5-10 years before they needed to worry about customers. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

What you are searching for is not the one-off revenue hits but rather a repeatable pattern that can be replicated by a sales organization selling off a pricelist or by customers coming to your web site. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Reply Dan Hodgins , on November 13, 2009 at 1:12 am Said: Hi Steve, Just listened to your “Retooling Early Stage Development&# for about the 10th time tonight as I was cleaning my room. Reply A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web | JonBischke.com , on November 13, 2009 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Now In Print!

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Search Our Site Subscribe to Articles Enter your email address below or click on RSS button Subscribe via RSS Archives February 2010 (1) July 2009 (1) June 2009 (4) Other Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Zoecity Top 10 Popular Articles How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

I do not want to necessarily start a flame war about particular creations of “Web 2.0 I can’t remember if they were in the Wired article or on the web site, but every once in a while I still go over to ebay and see if I can find any for sale. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too. Cant wait for more ;). Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. How about a fictive short story about few guys starting up a web product company on lean startup way? Expo SF (May.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

ethics statement bio e-mail RSS. In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. Web Designer. Liz Gannes. Follow @LizGannes.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Lessons Learned is the best RSS source in my overflowing Newsgator Online account. Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business. Give it some thought!

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 2012 Events.

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