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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

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Southern California Tech Central

SoCal CTO

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. The goal is to create a place where it's easy to find current and highly relevant content.

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Top 5 Take-Aways From CTIA

Seeing Both Sides

The annual wireless industry trade show, CTIA, had some interesting trends this year.   Putting aside the fact that Las Vegas feels like a ghost town, cab lines are uncharacteristically short, and my personal frustration that I find myself agreeing with an arch-conservative economist Arthur Laffer’s editorial in today’s WSJ on how Obama’s estate tax policy creates perverse Vegas incentives (!

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Cover the basics before you raise capital

BeyondVC

No matter how many times I told my friend that he needed to get a deck together for a potential capital raise and model out some thoughts on market sizing and financials, I ran into resistance.  It was not because he didn't think it was important or that it mattered.  It was because he was understaffed and going 60 miles per hour trying to get a product released.  I can understand that pain but at the same time, if you want to raise capital from anyone, you need to have the

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

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Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup workshop coming soon

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 31, 2009 The Lean Startup workshop coming soon I am currently gearing up for my talk tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo (last day to register to go for free , incidentally). Ive been working on my presentation, but also on a new project Im planning to announce there. Readers get an early sneak peak. My overwhelming takeaway from the most recent Lessons Learned survey is that there is tremendous hunger out there for in-depth opportunities for entrepreneurs of

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Teaching Google

Andrew Payne

If you extrapolate to a future where all information is on-line, how important is “knowing” vs having the ability to find what you need? “Knowing” will always be important, especially when combined with experience. I wouldn’t want to cross a bridge designed by someone who learned finite element analysis by reading Wikipedia.

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Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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How I keep track of information

VC Adventure

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What is an accredited investor?

Startup Company Lawyer

Under the Securities Act of 1933, a company that offers or sells its securities must register the securities with the SEC or find an exemption from the registration requirements. In addition, the company must also comply with securities laws in each state where securities are offered. The Act provides companies with a number of exemptions from federal registration requirements.

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More on Financial Regulation, Its Unintended Consequences, and the Geithner Plan

Pascal's View

The media is full of negative reactions related to. the announcement of Treasury Secretary Geithner’s extensive regulatory reform plan for the oversight of the capital markets.   I can't imagine that an announcement of this nature wasn’t widely. expected.   On November 28 th , 2008 I posted a warning on this specific issue: A Case. Study in the Unintended Consequences of Financial Market Regulation: The Death. of the Small Cap U.S.

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Web 2.0 Expo session followup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Web 2.0 Expo session followup The room was utterly packed today at Web 2.0 Expo , and the discussion afterward at the web2open was amazing. Thank you all so much for coming. I had brought a stack of fliers with me with one of the "Ideas-Code-Data" feedback loop infographics on one side, and information about the upcoming workshop on the other.

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How I keep track of information | Seth Levine

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Business Analyst Job Opportunity in Boston

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Obama Shoots Down 90% Tax Bracket For Entrepreneurs “Financial Exit&# is a Dangerous Misnomer → Business Analyst Job Opportunity in Boston Posted on March 31, 2009 by fnazeeri This has to be one of the coolest job opportunities in Boston right now for someone who is about to or just recently graduated from college with a background in finance, engineering or compu

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Hit me with your best pitch (@ glue) | Seth Levine

VC Adventure

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Don't be caught on the sidelines

VC Adventure

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Don't be caught on the sidelines | Seth Levine

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