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AUGUST 31, 2010

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck! Others, were great ideas.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. This creates a symbiotic relationship with Singaporean startups. Singaporean startups are in fact becoming measurably more innovative.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Calculate startup costs. The good news is that startup costs are relatively low, but you will need a few things, so make sure you spend some time thinking through your startup costs. Would you rather be seen as a young startup company, or work on creating your own personal brand? The basics. Keep your ear to the ground.

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Web Design Software Review Elevator Pitch 86

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Perhaps if you have a union job based on seniority, but not in any startup I’ve ever seen. Entrepreneurs are fearless, persistent and uninhibited about asking – whether it’s asking to assemble a team, get financing, sell customers, etc. When are you and Peter Barrett planning to fire up another startup ?

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Startup Basics Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. Follow @cdixon.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Experience with Startups! Don’t hire someone who has never worked with a startup before, because the environment is totally different. Have an account?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. This feature makes it more likely that you’ll receive prompt and useful responses. These sites and specific towards entrepreneurs.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now. Startups should be able to dramatically increase the value of their equity over the four years a stock grant vests.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If you are considering working at a startup, you should ask these questions. The right answer is, “We’re a startup. Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. No customers no sales, no startup. like Joe Fox 461 days ago sound advice- 1 have worked for 3 startups in the State of Utah. Live your life.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Feedburner said there were 50 RSS subscribers, but at least 40 of them were directories or scrapers. It was: “ You’re a real company when… ” An existential question of when a startup becomes “real.” 2,700 days ago, and 40,000 subscribers ago, I published my 13th blog post.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Million People Following Mashable Buzz 26,755+ Followers Facebook 326,427+ Fans Twitter 2,195,848+ Followers RSS 545,528+ More Subscription Options » About Mashable Mashable is an online guide to social media.One of the top 10 blogs worldwide, Mashable is a hub for those looking to make sense of the online realm.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. The video below was my presentation to the group. The slides below go with the video.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. In the era of social networking, there are tons of sites dedicated to matching qualified applicants with the right employers, including Startupers , VentureLoop and Startuply. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Click Send – Aaron Franklin's Blog From Microsoft to Startup, and Everything In-Between. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding. You are also competing with the programmer doing a startup on their own. I’ve seen many presentations and articles warning to never outsource a startup.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. A View from the Valley.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. View More in Life Sciences ›. View More in Mobile ›. Dan'l Lewin.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) Startup activities/functions So we started by listing the basic startup activities/functions we thought that might differ by vertical market.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 8, 2013

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Seed Finance Survey 2012 (via Fenwick) [link]. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement".

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Startup Advice. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. Startup lifestyle compatible – Running and working in a startup is a lot of work. Businesses. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. Social Media.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance and planning. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Understanding the future of entrepreneurship may depend on understanding the contribution each of them made in the past. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable). We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” We witness similar behavior in corporate finance. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? Now In Print!

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 31, 2009

Other articles you might like The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Not all good opportunities are good to take (1) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups No comments yet Click here to cancel reply. Now it is a matter of finding the time and the discipline to study them: one more item in my Quandrant II todo list.

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Finance Ruby Entrepreneur Australia 28

Scott Edward Walker

MAY 21, 2012

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. For example, diversification. Although you probably think of financial portfolio when I mention diversification, there are other areas where diversification is desirable. So how does one find the golden idea?

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