Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He was an engineer, so his first act was to buy one of each of these computers, and disassemble them in his office (a practice frowned on in IBM at the time – due to lawsuits). IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. mHz, now 3.0

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to Aalap Shah, 1o8 ! #5- 5- Two things.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. So perhaps a more accurate description was that the company was a “restart.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.] & Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

For example, leadership can use high-level KPIs to measure the overall performance of the company, and managers can use granular KPIs to gauge the effectiveness of processes, such as sales, marketing, or procurement. Due to the nature of the subscription model, SaaS companies need to focus on certain metrics to ensure profitability.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Understand that good leadership is always key. The best of workers would slack under the leadership of a lethargic and careless owner, while even the least experienced workers would quickly learn the ropes under a vigilant, fair leader who sets a good example. How it would play out in reality: A scathing review titled,?“(Don’t)

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. Here are two awesome-sounding jobs that will remain posted till Wednesday, so please check them out promptly.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. You’re in a “ hits-based &# entertainment business like movies or music rather than a product business like traditional high-tech. -

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. We create a culture of leadership through our comfortable environment where everyone from a new intern to the CMO can share ideas and brainstorm with the executive team.

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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.) I see now how this method brings much more value to the table and how I have fit my place in with the idea that I am trying to accomplish, even if my skills and abilities are not technical.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. link] [link] I guess you could call it the “Continuous Wave Radio&# technology period.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. And an outstanding rebuttal to Roger Ebert’s criticism of 3D technology – [link].

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. She was the only one raising us, and it really set the stage as far as setting expectations and then really following through, and with a kind of quiet leadership that she really showed during those years.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. And our Director of Technical Marketing was superb at understanding customer needs and communicating them to engineering. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Moms at tech start-ups say they can have it all – [link]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link]. Responsive Email Design – [link].

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They are high in the hierarchy due to their positive impact on both the business and the company culture – thus delivering a soft and hard advantage. Action #2: Aligning Metrics & Leadership Altitude. Identify if the metrics being reported to each leadership layer are the ones being recommended by the Impact Matrix.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. Are These Your Slides?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Their national technical means of verification made the world a safer place and hastened the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.) He naturally prefers exclusives, and if your strategy requires a review from TechCrunch, then it’s a good way to go. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry?

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SVPG

JULY 15, 2016

Strong technology people are drawn to an inspiring vision; they want to work on something meaningful. There are many variations on this (the strategy for the product strategy, if you will): For many B2B SaaS companies, each product-market fit focuses on a different vertical market (e.g. financial services, manufacturing, telco, etc.).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

The fact that your client, leadership, or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it’s true. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. reviews, trust).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Once he was on board, I sat down with him on a weekly basis to review our progress with our list of software vendors. Reply Daily Review #21 | The Queue Blog , on November 9, 2009 at 8:06 pm Said: [.] But, they need to fold this tech into their SDLC, which is no small commitment. Or in case of love for that matter.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Follow the Leader At the conference I attended a bunch of technical sessions, and got lost when the speaker got past, “My name is xxx.” When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn. Isn’t theory fun?

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) The bill had come due. Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. I went home and fell asleep at 7pm and didn’t wake up until the next afternoon.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

The fact that your client, leadership or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it is true. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. We all have blinders on sometimes. Functional Investigation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

It’s harder to remember that we have no perpetual rights to them, they aren’t our due, but they’re gifts. A Few Thoughts for Thanksgiving On this day it’s hard not to be grateful and give thanks for the things that matter – family, friends, our health, and feel blessed for all the things that have come to us.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lesson learned, review how each action [.] And many of the best entrepreneurs experience failure a number of times before building a legendary business (thanks Steve Blank, you’re an info sharing rockstar). Reply Customer Development, GeekStack Style : GeekStack Blog , on November 25, 2009 at 9:15 am Said: [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interesting vertical farm concept coming together in an old Chicago meatpacking plant – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Thanks Steve!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The new VP of Sales reviews the sales strategy and tactics that did not work and comes up with a new sales plan. Since the new VP of Sales was brought on board to “fix” sales, the marketing department has to react and interact with someone who believes that whatever was created earlier in the company was wrong.

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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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