Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Todd Branchflower took my Lean LaunchPad class having been entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. True to his word, fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching computer engineering at the Air Force Academy. ——-.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. But it was just very clear to me that people did not take for granted where their next meal would come from in the way that we do here in the United States.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Her name is Pamela Menges, and she’s President of a high-tech start up in Cincinnati. She’s also a professor at the University of Cincinnati in their Engineering department. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. Engineers are aging.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I wrote about Jonathan’s visit (but never named him by name until now) because it was so memorable. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech. Topics range from aging parents, marital strife, infidelity, disease, stress, life’s true mission, giving back – you name it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As the name suggests, the report will help to determine how practical it is for you to launch a startup company based on various factors. The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (ICAHO) is the United States’ most well-known healthcare accreditation organization. Step #1: Get a Feasibility Analyst Report.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Services like LimeSpot are the engines that power product recommendations for ecommerce sites. In the United States, 15% of consumers are buying more from companies based on their purpose and values, and 26% are buying more from companies that take care of their employees. Put a face to your name with video chat.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Name your favorite musical; odds are these guys wrote it. The coming-together of these two musical virtuosos resulted in a 16-year partnership that produced instant classics like Oklahoma! , State Fair , South Pacific , The King and I , and The Sound of Music. What we can learn from them: There is no such thing as a self-made man.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see the slides click here. Raj had a front row seat in this revolution: .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Named Competitors – Often buyer exclusivity agreements start very broad and your job is to narrow them. I usually try to win the “named competitor” argument because in actuality most buyers usually only really care about a handful of competitors that they’re trying to one-up. ” Here’s what I mean.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Here are six ways to help you make a name for your startup on the tech scene right now. . Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Nations such as Estonia or Poland have made a name for themselves as well. According to David S.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. SRT is measured in a unit known as Time to First Byte (TTFB). A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. Image source ). Measure your server response time.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. He stated: “China is also courting trouble. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

Google is the biggest search engine ad platform in the world. Campaign name. It’s important to name your campaigns sensibly, especially if you’ll be running a large number of campaigns within your account. Here’s an excellent guide that covers best practices for naming your campaigns. Fill in the “UET tag name” section.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Company names like Apple, Amazon and eBay evoke an image of success and cutting-edge technology. It’s hard to overstate the importance of a business name. Getting your business’ name right could mean the difference between “Blue Ribbon Sports” and “Nike.” Here are some tips for how to come up with a business name.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance. Apple was mostly a curiosity in the late 1970s, when I played with the children of some of its early employees and had the privilege of playing then-state-of-the-art games on their Apple II computers in glorious monochrome ASCII.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2021

As a business owner, improving your website’s presence on search engines should be one of your top priorities. Local Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) is a process where you look to improve the search visibility of a local business. As a result, you should start to see your site climb the search engine results pages (SERPs).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. Not their own name, or any other identifying information. If you can’t see the presentation click here. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D He’s hoping to take some of the Lean methods back to his work in economics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. Not their own name, or any other identifying information. If you can’t see the presentation click here. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D He’s hoping to take some of the Lean methods back to his work in economics.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

. … (Still) We had no idea the complexity that would be involved from sourcing the manufacturer and how long it would take once you found that manufacturer to be able to engineer the product… It’s very different when you’re engineering a product to make 100 of parts. …. Orders increased.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Let me remind you again: 1M/1M aims to reduce infant entrepreneur mortality: 600,000 companies go out of business every year in the United States. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All first-time entrepreneurs, arguably, are amateurs.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. Recordings of previous online roundtables are all available here. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. I have, thanks to Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator. How to Get Started.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

It is not sufficient for well-meaning people in the administration to stand by and allow racism to emanate from the White House in the name of getting tax cuts or lower regulations. Each of their parents came to the United States in search of a life. We have an obligation to speak up or eventually they will come for you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2017

In his biography, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon he shares: Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me – they’re shy and they live in their heads. If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. They’re almost like artists. Barack Obama.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. Are most of the finalists for the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards from the United States? What other kinds on entertainment can we expect at the event?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see the slides click here. Raj had a front row seat in this revolution: .

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

This applies equally to B2B - 71 percent of enterprise purchase decisions in the United States begin with research conducted on a search engine. Psychologists have determined , for example, that shares in companies with easy-to-pronounce names do indeed significantly outperform those with hard-to-pronounce names.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

After some reflection, I came to the realization that 2015 and 2016 marked the first time in my life that I did not travel outside of the United States. Whether it’s naming a famous soccer legend, a popular dish from their country, or a famous event, you can see an immediate change in their face and body language.

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