Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2009

Pioneers get arrows in their backs – I have experienced it firsthand from an active investor's viewpoint and written about it in the past.  Being early in a market is great but being too early can be deadly.  Just like the settlers in the westward migration, entrepreneurs who are too early will get arrows in their back.  It doesn't matter if you have a rock star CEO (Bill Coleman who founded BEA) and $100mm of funding from some great investors.  If you are t

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 27, 2009

Driving home today, the FastLane toll ( E-ZPass for the rest of you) flashes “Call FastLane” So I call and am prompted for entering my account number “from my statement” There’s no option to bypass, but after three failed attempts, it gets through. Then I’m put on hold for a while, and then eventually it says “we’re closed” Unbelievable.

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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

APRIL 30, 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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Speaking with Steve Blank at startup2startup; webcast on May 1; other upcoming events Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that Ill be appearing on stage with Steve Blank tomorrow, April 30th, at the startup2startup event in Palo Alto. For more info, you can read the event description here. Well be attempting some new material, so should be an interesting event.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 28, 2009

My Twitter feature requests (for the Web interface): First-class support for tweet replies/comments. Put the search box right on the page, upper right. Let me add “searches to track” on my page, that scroll along in little widgets. Provide a subtle visual hint (e.g. highlighting) where the tweet stack was the last time I visited. I’m sure these features exist in the various Twitter clients.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! Well have a full audio recording posted soon, but I did want to share the slides with everyone.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 25, 2009

The Increasing Role of Universities and Research Institutes as Centers of Excellence For Innovation Today. [run time 1 minute 27 seconds]. Dr. Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Chairman Sparta Group, LLC speaking on a panel the third annual IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum (ITSEF) held at Stanford University on March 18, 2009 with Lesa Mitchell, VP Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation, and Dr.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 27, 2009

I thought Krugman’s Op-Ed about compensation in the financial sector was interesting. The one-sentence summary: “ I question the value of these financial innovations, and why are they getting paid so much? ” Financial innovators have a huge advantage: they build their compensation right into the innovation itself. Find a place to take a percent or two (as risk-free as possible), and at scale you’ve got real money.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 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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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

It used to be that anyone in the entrepreneurial world had to be keenly cognizant of what was going on in New York City. If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. First, that's where the customers were. CIOs of financial services companies were viewed as gods by many in the start-up community, controlling billions of dollars in IT spending and often willing to experiment with yo

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Pascal's View

APRIL 26, 2009

Challenges Created by America’s Transition to an Innovation Economy. [run time 2 minutes 36 seconds]. Dr. Curtis Carlson, President and CEO of SRI International, speaking on a panel at the IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum (ITSEF) held at Stanford University on March 18, 2009. Since 2007, ITSEF has focused on advancing innovation in security technologies through public-private partnerships by developing a community of interest between Washington and Silicon Valley.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 26, 2009

Since it’s launch, I thought iPod Touch was underrated and under appreciated. The iPhone’s got the glory, and it’s easy to dismiss the Touch as a “fancy iPod” But it’s a lot of computing in a small and cheap platform: 8-32GB of flash memory, 128Mb of RAM, a great display and a 522 Mhz processor. It’s got more power than many PCs from 10-12 years ago!

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing Term Sheets For Free More on the “VC Math Problem&# → 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens Posted on April 26, 2009 by fnazeeri [UPDATE] The 2009 CompStudy survey results are now published here.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 1, 2009

CompStudy publishes an annual report of equity and cash compensation that provides compensation data on top management positions and Boards of Directors at private companies in technology and life sciences. CompStudy covers more than 25,000 executives at 5,000 companies and is the largest study of its kind. Data is analyzed by: founder/non-founder status, company revenue and headcount, geography, business segment, and number of financing rounds raised.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 26, 2009

Global Competition and the Critical Role of Venture Capital in America’s Growth Economy. [RUN TIME 3 MINUTES 17 SECONDS]. Dr. Curtis Carlson, President and CEO of SRI International, speaking on the panel with Dr. Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Chairman Sparta Group, LLC and Lesa Mitchell, VP Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation, at the IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum held at Stanford University on March 18, 2009.

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