Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2013

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Some folks like websites and blogs, and others prefer RSS feeds, email lists, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds. Provide multiple methods of access. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2016

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Some folks like websites and blogs, and others prefer RSS feeds, email lists, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds. Provide multiple methods of access. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 28, 2023

At one point I had a blog with a thriving RSS-based readership and a few thousand e-mail subs who were getting mailed my posts by Feedblitz as an afterthought. It was a kludgey solution that suddenly took center stage when RSS got abandoned and Google Reader went away. That’s how Substack was for me—a letdown.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. was starting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took lots of trial and error, learning by experience and resilience through multiple failures.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. Then came AOL.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 15, 2019

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] Justin Brooke has become a bit of an internet marketing legend. He’s the kind of talented expert you never hear about because he is busy working behind the scenes helping other businesses grow.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 8, 2020

[ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] Aurelien Amacker is a French internet marketer, who prior to his current success with a software as a service (SAAS) company, Systeme.io, made a solid income as a launch-focused internet marketer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 9, 2011

Please send me more email with your contact information so I can post it on the Internet. How many RSS subscribers or Twitter followers do I need before I decide it’s OK to rail against asinine offers like that email, or even gently disagree with luminaries who I do, in fact, respect?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. Every startup wanted to believe they could get acquired like YouTube for $1.4 To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2011

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Some folks like websites and blogs, and others prefer RSS feeds, email lists, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds. Provide multiple methods of access. Let’s face it, static websites are dead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Guaranteed Funding – Not Will this type of presentation guarantee you funding? Of course not. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2013

Clay explains how he entered the world of internet marketing as a social media consultant, blogger, speaker and eventually a niche marketer and coach. Subscribe to the raw RSS feed (Podcasts Only). Connecting with Jeff Walker , Clay goes on to do a big launch talking about his techniques for prelaunching products online.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Welcome to the Internet bubble.) Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Disbelief, Anger, Resignation and Acceptance My cofounders and I went through the stages of disbelief, anger, resignation and acceptance. Here was a competitor who had appropriated our idea and gotten funded.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Now I guess it’s “never bet against the Internet,&# with all that implies. I.e., they’d rather have a decent-performing personal machine than have to share a high-performance machine. Well, “duh.&# Never bet against the desktop. But this was 1985; we didn’t know any better. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 30, 2014

Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ]. Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Michelle has been traveling all around Europe since 2005. Michelle was "trapped" in Egypt due to not having enough money to leave, so began researching internet business options.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Later he would leave for a few years to start the Computing Directorate at the National Science Foundation , help spec what became the Internet and then come back and run Ardent’s engineering.) A few days later Gordon became a founder. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. By definition need redundancy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

» 25 Responses Mark Soper , on November 30, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Steve, I’m working on a consumer internet product concept at the customer discovery phase. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

When a potential customer visits a website and then leaves without making a purchase, companies can ‘follow’ them on the Internet,” says Melissa Chelist, owner of Storkgifts , an online children’s store. According to Think Mobile with Google : 81% of smartphone users access the Internet on their mobile devices.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

ethics statement bio e-mail RSS. In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Social investments in the Internet sector are down, though mobile social is booming after the Facebook-Instagram deal. Liz Gannes. Follow @LizGannes. Tricia Duryee.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply Touching the hot stove | Hot Trends 2 Tweet , on August 14, 2009 at 7:28 am Said: [.] 1978 when I joined my first company, information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist. Thanks Steve, Great insight. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about. Now In Print!

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. In the past seven years, Internet has changed the business landscape and software has not been an exception to the rule. Add RSS feed. internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 124

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

In fact, by 2021, internet traffic will be comprised of 82% video content. Beyond getting backlinks to your site, other off-page strategies include guest posting and increasing your business listings across the internet in relevant places. So be sure to subscribe to RSS feeds, marijuana business outlets, and newsletters.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Just like today, there were certainly crazy things happening on the Internet. An extremely terrifying and recent story of online harassment made its way to my RSS feed last week. Let them know that the Internet is forever —  Tell them stories about situations you saw or experienced online and how those memories stick with you.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. This was a company that had sold 15,000 graphics boards and monitors to consumers. So I asked the fatal question, “Has anyone ever looked at the customer registration cards? Now In Print!

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Peter Drew Internet Marketing Tools Online Blog Home Recieve an Email for Each New Post Here Contact Peter Drew You are here: Home / Internet Marketing / How to find a good programmer or web developer How to find a good programmer or web developer October 1, 2007 By Peter Drew Leave a Comment 1. Simple RSS Trust SEO – Part 2.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Anybody with a sense of how the Internet works should have known that they couldn’t commit such open fraud on this scale and expect to get away with it. If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Instead, this is a culture clash. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 27, 2012

Isn’t fame and glory and RSS subscribers enough? Besides the obvious answer (to make money), I believe the Internet is already overrun with free stuff. So when I recently wrote an eBook to show people how to design user interfaces , I knew how important setting the right price would be. Why charge at all ?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: Europe Consumer , internet. Add RSS feed. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Cracking The Code. Monday, January 16, 2012. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. at 12:17 PM.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

INFOGRAPHIC] How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes the Modern Media Agency [INFOGRAPHIC] How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The city hopes to attract and start more of these sorts of Internet companies by helping Cornell build a 2.1-million-square-foot RSS Feed 563,341+ Subscribers. NYC Rises In the Tech Scene. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been trying very hard to raise New York City’s profile in the tech scene. Take a look over here.

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