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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Capital Requirements In my class students form teams and spend a semester building a detailed plan for a company. We’ll talk about the implications of what vertical market you’re entering in the next few posts. The post is not written for “insiders&# or domain experts inside a vertical.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Read the previous Ardent post for context.) Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus. At Ardent I learned many of them with a sharp smack on the side of the head from a brilliant but abusive boss. Not a process I recommend, but one in which the lessons stuck for a lifetime.

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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. As a self-funded venture your best case will be to communicate with a single digit percentage of your market through online marketing and perhaps some cold calls and direct mail. Check out my book Like this post? at 12:06 pm nice post!

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Posted by Philippe Botteri. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. at 11:09 AM.

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How To Blog Like A Pro

Altgate

I’ve never seen a pro blog that uses the default domain @typepad.com, @blogspot.com or whatever. RSS readers are your most loyal audience (as they will see every post). Make sure you tag blog posts with a category and then have those categories visible at the top of your blog. Post regularly. Write with a voice.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Monday edit : Skip my post and read this one instead. Saturday edit : Wow, this post has hit quite a nerve. Anyway, I was going to leave all this to blow over before making any comments in a follow-up post next Friday. Sunday edit : Incredible that this post is still going strong, on a weekend no less. Very good post.

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