Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Software By Rob

APRIL 16, 2010

It’s Easy to Criticize from the Stands → Podcast Ranked #13 in iTunes: Management and Marketing About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But Management and Marketing ?

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JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Reply Fred H Schlegel , on October 20, 2009 at 1:20 pm Said: I believe the MBA was originally developed with the idea of helping functional experts move more smoothly into upper management ranks. Unfortunately it became a gatekeeper degree of a sorts allowing all sorts of folks to sidestep real business experience. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Help them?!!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The first step was to recruit a new management team. Now with a new infusion of $8 million dollars of venture capital, SuperMac had been resurrected from the dead and was attempting to restart. Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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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. Who would have known? Armstrong was a god! To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. It looks as though you and I have the same taste in layout, no? I’ve written about this subject many times and could not agree more. This happens for any number of reasons. Some are afraid of making the wrong decision. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model. It’s a big idea.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Also, if you’re an entrepreneur, make sure you hire and manage people so that they’re focusing on end goals and not motion or, once again, you’re screwed. What I thought would be a simple port is actually a major project I don’t have time to manage. They all have to be redrawn and reformatted. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. I am sorry there really isn’t a job for you.&#

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Sale Guys, Account Reps, Project Manager – they all need to be able to deal with this without even blinking. for knowing his audience and managing to it effectively. No halfways-competent CEO would ever talk with an engineer this way unless they were getting ready to fire them. If the latter, then I say “Well done!&#

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] 3) Managing the relationship is more consumptive than the rewards. I’ll add I’m particularly curious about how founders recognize that point at which they need to exit / fire the old customers. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours. 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!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I I was beginning to think that my hiring managers were related to red-shirted guys on Star Trek.) I quit a job as road manager, because it had meant that I was gone 9 months out of the year and my job was any waking minute.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I hope we managed to teach our children compassion and charity for others. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. And as they find their own way in life, they will continue to give back to others. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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JUNE 16, 2014

Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] * Apologies about the slight distortion during parts of this interview. They work on TV shows, creating and managing online games to make the television programs interactive, which eventually leads to winning an Emmy award. Coming Soon ?[/spoiler]

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. 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

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. I can say that the management and staff at ESL was the absolute best. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

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JULY 8, 2011

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JULY 16, 2012

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

To make it easier to manage, set up automated rules to pause and enable these seasonal Campaigns so you don’t have to micromanage the changeover. What this means to you as a PPC manager is that your search term reports will contain more regionally-focused language. Get Focused on Location.

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MAY 12, 2011

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 22, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. August 22nd, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. to put together a product plan. To the point?

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JANUARY 16, 2013

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I managed to fetch about 1,300. Or re-save the scripts from Tools + Script Manager. Go to Tools + Script Manager and run Test script. Have you tried running the script from Tools -> Script Manager? You can play with the spreadsheets in two ways. Increase the number of results returned — up to 1,500. Ann Smarty.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via: iTunes (opens iTunes) RSS Email May 4th, 2010 | About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office. Give it some thought!

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OCTOBER 16, 2010

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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