Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). Start a blog.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. During the the Lean Startup era, the advice was clear; focus on building the company and avoid hype.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. The song will be in your head all day, but it’s a fun video edit.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

Lean 144

Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them. I’ve leaned on Allen Morgan for the last 8 years through 4 companies and all sorts of ups and downs and twist and turns. This is a must if you want to build sustainable competitive advantage.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

It had no PR agency. Bill Perry the founder of ESL, is now acknowledged as one of the founders of the entire field of National Reconnaissance , working the NSA and the CIA in programs to intercept and evaluate Soviet missile telemetry and communications intelligence. ESL had no marketing people. It shunned publicity.

Silicon Valley 276

Silicon Valley RSS California Washington 276

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. They should start “lean.&#

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84