Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. First of all, Im excited to announce that the workshop is now an OReilly Master Class , and we have added a second date on June 18.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 14, 2009

Edit: Please see comments for latest updates and settings for different phones. Image by marcopako ? via Flickr. I recently figured out a cool hack that lets you use Google Voice and all the features it offers that are superior to most systems, without the hassle of giving out a new phone number owned by Google. I discovered this via a post about using SkyDeck to also sync. contacts and have other functionality – all things I did not need, so I took them out of the equation.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs → “What’s Next in Tech&# Event in Boston Posted on May 14, 2009 by fnazeeri Boston Globe tech columnist Scott Kirsner is organizing an event here in Boston next month where the theme will be technology innovation in New England.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2009

Jonathan Kay from Grasshopper sent me a great video on entrepreneurship.  First I love the inspirational message.  Secondly, I like the use of a viral video to cleverly promote his virtual PBX numbers for entrepreneurs.  Take a look and hopefully it will brighten up your day. What I love about the message is that entrepreneurship is not about making money but about pursuing a passion and doing your part to make great products to make the world a better place.  OK-it may s

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

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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K9 Ventures

MAY 10, 2009

I’ll start by admitting up front that the purpose of this post is to hopefully incite a discussion, to start a fire, and to get you, and your startup to think really hard about what your business model should be. The title for this post ‘The Case Against FREE’ is a throwback to Chris Anderson ‘s cover story in Wired Magazine titled Free: Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business , but, this post isn’t really intended to be a blow-by-blow rebuttal of Chris Anderson’s

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Eric Friedman

MAY 15, 2009

If you talk to someone who claims to work in Search or is an SEO expert ask them what you can Google to test their skills. What better test of search engine optimization than their name, in my case Eric Friedman. Recently Google offered free cards promoting your Google Profile in conjunction with iPrint to produce the follow business cards: Anything else is just second best.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 13, 2009

This week, the Obama Administration released the first comprehensive summary of its budget proposal. The budget proposal is wide ranging, and includes, for example, proposed changes with respect to the taxation of “carried interests&# in partnerships, as well as sweeping reform of the international tax area. One proposal would dramatically improve the treatment of “ qualified small business stock &# issued after February 17, 2009.

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Andrew Payne

MAY 11, 2009

[ A longer than usual blog post, summarizing some strategy ideas I've been working on. ]. In the early 90s at DEC, I had a colleague that worked with the cable industry. I tried (unsuccessfully) to convince him that TCP/IP would be the winning network infrastructure for the fancy interactive TV services everyone was talking about. In the end, “ adequate general purpose” solutions always win.

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 10, 2009

I recently spoke at AlwaysOn’s OnHollywood conference on the subject of today’s extremely dynamic online/Internet video world. Things are moving so amazingly fast that its extremely hard to predict specific outcomes.

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VC Adventure

MAY 12, 2009

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 9, 2009

For as long as I can remember, I have been an enthusiastic participant in sports. To be clear, I'm not a great athlete (in fact, I'm the only one of the five Flybridge General Partners that wasn't a varsity athlete in college), just good enough to participate passionately and aggressively like the prototypical weekend warrior. During any of my amateur sports efforts -- whether competing in mini-triathlons, tackling hard ski runs, or trying to jump the wake while Water-skiing -- I've always enj

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Andrew Payne

MAY 14, 2009

Devdutt Yellurkar (at CRV ) and I were comparing enterprise software war stories and notes on SaaS opportunities (he did CRV’s recent investment in ZenDesk ). The enterprise software business model is a tough one. Large organizations frequently need custom features, and with project investments of millions or tens of millions of dollars, companies expect the solution to fit their operations and processes.

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Pascal's View

MAY 10, 2009

I usually try to keep my blog posts short. Today I have failed in this endeavor but urge you to please read through to the end of this important post. The current issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine features an excerpt from Leslie Gelb's new book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy.  This essay is exceptionally good, and, in my view, Gelb's thesis should be applied to all forms of statecraft and to promote the resolution of both newly emerging and long s

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