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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Ok, I get a lot of these. better user growth.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. But all things are never equal.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Bring your questions.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Thursday, September 16, 2010. Has DEMO lost its luster and relevance in 2010? A check-in aggregation platform. October 4, 2010 11:55 AM. ▼ 2010. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

That’s why early stage companies aren’t run by accountants with spreadsheets. Reply Quora , on October 20, 2010 at 7:22 pm Said: What is the most effective way to get the word out about a new product?… They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom , and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. What’s the impact for early-stage startups? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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