Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons &#. Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation. Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make. I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Our washer and dryer was on the fritz today, and as I started to do some research on large capacity stackable units I started to get overwhelmed with all of the new terminology and features. After all, isn’t a washer a washer and a dryer a dryer. How many different combinations and features could there be? As I dug deeper I found myself thinking about these appliances less from a consumer’s viewpoint and more from a marketing one and appreciating how these various companies could make a commo

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up I had an incredible time at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC last week. Ive never seen such a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, vendors, and policy makers all in one place. There was quite an exchange of ideas. I was thrilled to be included. I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”. Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 14, 2009 International tour about to begin For my international readers: are you in Washington DC, Paris, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam, Malmo, or even Oulu, Finland? Then youll have a chance to come discuss the lean startup live and in-person. (Whats that you say? DC is actually not a separate country? Fascinating.

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Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Five or ten years ago, your Web site was your entire on-line presence, simply because there wasn’t any other place to deploy content and functionality. Today, that’s not the case at all: with the proliferation of platforms (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.), embeddable content, widgets (video, Flash, etc.) and access methods (desktop, mobile, game system, large screens) your on-line presence is much more than just what’s on the Web site.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Hussein Kanji has organized a venture capital and entrepreneurship lecture series starting in October, which will be held at London Business School. Current speakers announced are: Robin Klein, The Accelerator Group, Thursday Oct 1 Stan Bowland, Icera, Thursday Nov 5 Stefan Glaenzer, Last.fm, Thursday Dec 3 Bernard Liautaud, Balderton, Thursday Feb 4 Jos White, MessageLabs, Thursday March 4 Herman Hauser, Amadeus, Thursday, May 6 Mike Hedger, KVS, Thursday June 3.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Has prompted me to investigate upgrading the comments system on this blog. I reached out to the twitter to gather suggestions, and the clear first choice seems to be Disqus.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

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