Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. The same is true in your company. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. The google adsense search button gives a feel for the direction of relevant advertising. I was an idiot. Now In Print!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Spanning the breadth of using content to generate leads, acquire prospects and convert customers, the book straddles content marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), social media and other related areas. Content is shared either directly on the website itself, or accessed through RSS feeds. Google Searches and Social Media.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Not just relevance in the sense of improving Quality Score or Ad Rank, but improving the relevance of your search marketing keywords and ads to your potential customers. This ad is helping the website by providing a contact phone (especially good for mobile searches), and sitelinks. Get Focused on Location.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching. Twitter – it is like email, SMS, or RSS.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

The Future of Search Series is presented by SES San Francisco Conference & Expo , the leading interactive digital and online marketing event. That’s how search engines know what your site is about. Like Tweet. 7 Birds Covering the Andy Griffith Theme Song [VIDEO]. Like Tweet. July 3, 2012 by Erin Everhart. Learn more here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. If you’re constantly correlating data and searching for patterns, all intelligence if properly integrated will give you insight. We don’t need to know all this stuff.” Yes you do. From top to bottom.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company. Pretty terrible.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers ( what is RSS ), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. One of the keys to my success with traffic was how well I was doing in organic search results. It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

To generate more names for your startups, do a keyword search on a visual search site and browse its images for inspiration. Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

” The name is important for discoverability , whether in Google searches (10% to 50%+ of site traffic, depending on the category), the App Store (especially painful in iOS6) and other text-based discovery channels. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Engineer. Senior Ruby Engineer. RELEASE ENGINEER. More local links » Follow me on… RSS.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Twitter is much more.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them. This is great! Top Stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. I want to add one last idea, even though I recognize it is controversial, bordering on the boundary between the CTO and VP Engineering. Heres my take.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Let’s hit the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and find out how many people are searching for our key marketing term. Did you take a peek at what kind of search you performed? Mistake #3: Global Searches Ok, not too bad. “ But hold on a sec.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

But, instead of waiting for an employer to publish that ‘perfect’ job description, I recommend the livelier approach: focus on the the active verb in “job search” and start making your own opportunities, start opening your own doors, and start creating your own luck. Engineer your opportunities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Images courtesy of iStockphoto , courtneyk , Flickr , Shenhung Lin Print Story Email Story Reprints Topics to follow Business 20,571 followers Follow Startups 4,689 followers Follow How To 1,399 follower Follow More Stories in Business The Guardian Launches a New U.S. This is one of the few things that can actually SAVE your business.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. million in venture financing. .&#

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Prosperati is proudly powered by WordPress 3.0.1 | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS). Spare no expense to find the absolute best person for this role. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Thanks to John’s generous promotion of my content over the years, many of you probably know I’ve spent most of my career in search engine optimization. Tidings’ whitelabel platform offers you a turnkey solution to extend the reach of your social campaigns to email, as well as one-click RSS integrations with any public feed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. RSS Feed 573,411+ Subscribers. Trending Stories. Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows Pseudonyms. iPhotography Calendar: 12 Months Captured in 12 Stunning Snapshots [PICS]. How To Close The Books on Your Startup. January 21, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. Top Stories.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

ethics statement bio e-mail RSS. Search » Featured Posts. CCIE - Senior Sales Support Engineering. A single RSS feed of all ATD Writers’ Twitter accounts. The Digital Solution – What You Might Not Know About Your iPhone and iPad. Kara Swisher. Follow @@karaswisher. Recent Posts by Kara Swisher.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Filtering your search by pedigree is a good start. They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. Pedigree is a Decent First Filter This advice is for non-technical business owners trying to find a CTO. If your candidate was good enough to get into MIT, Stanford, etc., Eric Bahn , Beat The GMAT.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers. Cycling to Mumbra Devi Temple – in search of Parsik Fort. Mathematics. Photography. Sustainability.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The most common responses will involve search engine optimization, AdWords, blogging, podcasting, and perhaps social media. For every 50 books or blogs on search engine optimization or AdWords there is one on improving conversions.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The focus of a CTO, a position akin to and occasionally still referred to as "vice president of engineering," is typically to develop and implement new technologies. In a start-up context, bands are formed sometimes by happenstance, and my head of engineering absolutely acts as the CTO," Teree says. "We 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines. Search on Smashing Magazine. - select -.

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