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. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. Tempus Fugit.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% IPO market.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. After our initial shock ended, we decided that we were doing some of the best marketing in the technology channel and wanted to take it to other companies like ours. Photo Credit: Brad M.

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JULY 13, 2022

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Naming a Business. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Forgot login ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Jonathan is a speaker and advisor managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. We focused too much on technology. Company : Untitled Partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. So they need that partner, right. And now we've got technology coming in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! The MarTech Podcast share stories from world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. If you do the math 2000 hours in a year, that's a hundred dollars an hour. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. This person proposes design approaches for review and agreement from peers and his or her supervisor.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I believed them when they promised something and it would all pan out in due time. Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. We didn't really discuss whether the partner on the deal was the right guy for us. It never did. Co-Investors.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. No, I have many ideas.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Image source ). Image source ).

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JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source. million in 2004 to $6.5 featured image source.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source. million in 2004 to $6.5 featured image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source. million in 2004 to $6.5 featured image source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source. million in 2004 to $6.5 featured image source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. And of course, this is 2000. So then what?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Once you have your business name, you need to look good doing it. It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. Check those out if you have clients or partners that need to sign paperwork for you. Peter: This is good.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like I had back in my real estate days, cuz I used to do a ton of now we're talking about the stone ages, you know, the early 2000, but I did a lot of postcard mailouts and radio advertising and print advertising and so on and all. Natural Born Coaches Podcast. Like this show?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! She's named one of the top 10 content marketers to Follow in 2023, and is best known for teaching powerful content strategies that bring real business revenue and growth, and now how to use AI to 10 x your blog and content authority, volume and traffic. So it's been a wild ride.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And now I think it's definitely through technology, through, you know, a lot of advances in opportunities. So there's a large buried entry.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Core Business Expenses Business Filing Fees - This includes your business license, fictitious name statement, and reseller license fees (if applicable). Technical Expenses A few of these apply only to companies that build software, but most apply across the board. at 3:43 pm I am a partner in four person consulting firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video – otherwide Web 2.0 No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 11, 2020

He’s also the founder of an emerging tech PR communications company called Cultivate Strategies. And what I noticed was, I mean, I have a lot of emerging tech clients. But it’s Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney, and it used to be, oh boy, his name’s going to escape me. So, welcome to the show Justin.

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