Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

You see, in addition to being a fine example of a veteran software engineering leader, my neighbor Dave Thomas is also one of the top trainers in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (or BJJ) that you will find anywhere. And, naturally, he has found a way to combine his interests in technology and teaching in a couple of ways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. It might also be in Big Co.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the world’s leading B2B technology markets. The region is densely populated with many of B2B tech’s greatest success stories, including Salesforce, Box, and Marketo, as well as numerous promising B2B startups. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These laws apply to every entrepreneurial endeavor, not just high tech startups, though we’ll still spend plenty of time on the technology industry. Rather, the competition is intellectually lazy, relying on technology and techniques that might be decades out of date. This may be due to industry-specific technological change.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. By far the most important thing you want to hire for in a startup is the ability to handle the unexpected. Those people also tend to go crazy in a startup.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups. Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs , gave a talk on Tuesday entitled “Off The Record,” about the predictive approach to product development.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. Execution is what matters, and in most web startups that falls on the technical founder. I love programming, board games, and my wife. Especially a company based on your vision.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Whether you decide to build or buy, the technology you adopt must align with your business goals. The problem your new software or technology will solve. If there’s an issue integrating the software, who will fix it?

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