Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Now the problem is, in the diagram below on the left, this is what our DOD architecture looks like today. And the only way you’re going to get there is through building common platform services and the application architecture that internet-scale companies do today. I thought about the job like a startup.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup. So, let’s make things a bit easier by running through a primer on choosing the right programming language for your tech startup. Most startup founders agree that it’s best to choose people first and language second.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series features intimate chats with some of the latest founders taking hold of the startup ecosystem today. eCarra is a passenger car service built on a multi-tenant architecture. 2020 is about growth: increasing brand awareness, reservation count, and Tesla partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. If you are an entrepreneur, like Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, with a degree in music and no technical business partner to be found, your job is a bit harder.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Third-Party risks Third-party risks are related to a breach or other security incident caused by a third-party vendor or partner. ZTA, or zero-trust architecture ZTA models differ from standard cyber security models, which depend on ongoing verification.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Go-to-Product.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

10- Professional Organizations Photo Credit: Michael Dodd As a founder of an event management software startup, I have found networking in groups such as ILEA, MPI, and NACE crucial in building my personal and professional network in the events industry. Thanks to Emir Bacic, Pricelisto ! #10- Thanks to Michael Dodd, Planning hub ! #11-

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Your startup becomes irrelevant. One way to do this before starting your own business is by working for a startup or small fast-paced company in your field. Solve the rest later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. With the existing product in mind, the $500,000 would be broken out evenly over the nine months with the first two months dedicated to design, specifically user architecture, brand and polish design. 1) Twitter. 4) WhatsApp.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. So that’s the goal.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

Today I want to go into territory less obvious because let’s face it, hiring the best people and creating conditions where they can succeed is the kind of startup advice that is squarely in the “stating the obvious” category. Entrepreneurship engineering Get Satisfaction product management Startups User Experience'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Every startup begins with an idea, but from that point forward, it’s all about execution. Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. In the interim years, dozens of products and startups have launched or used GlueCon as one of the venues for their early premieres.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture. Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

As part of our ongoing Female Founders series , The Startup Magazine asked Terry Foudray, CEO and co-founder of IoT solutions provider, RUMBLE, for her views on the continued digitization of our physical world. IoT architecture and implementation are complex and require a level of expertise few companies can offer.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 16, 2023

When setting out to build side projects that generate revenue, my partner and I prioritized three things above all else; solving a real problem, researching and understanding what customers want, and creating a sustainable business. To begin with, the idea of a slow-burn startup is not new. Enough conjecture, let’s get specific.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

Over the past two years, Zarik has been extremely active as an investor and an entrepreneur to create startups in forward looking markets such as Augmented Reality, On-demand services industry, Social Networking & Collaboration industry, and Solar Industry. Zarik currently serves on the Board of Advisors for many other startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 10, 2012

When you are pitching an investor or potential partner, make sure you hone your own presentations so that they are succinct and on-point. Video is very compelling and should be a part of any startup's marketing effort. Some of the teams put an architecture diagram in their slide decks that didn't make any sense whatsoever.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. I wanted to go native.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

As a respected thought leader in the tech community, she provides funding to early-stage startups that are ready to share their vision with the world. The Space Between Art and Technology Masha Bucher has long been fascinated with visual media, influenced by her family’s legacy in both art and architecture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2012

A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. His focus is on repeatable practices to maximize business opportunities in large companies, but I’m convinced that these apply equally well to startups: Clearly define your value chain. Maximize technology architecture and standards.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. 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.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. Welcome to our annual boldstart recap and enterprise predictions letter. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures. We are very excited to partner with Sanjay Beri, founder and CEO of Netskope. BYOD Cloud mobile Security security startups'

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. His focus is on repeatable practices to maximize business opportunities in large companies, but I’m convinced that these apply equally well to startups: Clearly define your value chain. Maximize technology architecture and standards.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Not a trivial job considering our computer was one of the first parallel architectures, and our compiler required specific knowledge of our vector architecture to get the most out of it. 45 is efficient.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Everything I learned about startups I learned by making mistakes at my first one. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

In our initial blog post , we outlined our decision to step away from the universally accepted architecture of what an accelerator “should” look like. The journey of every startup is so different. We had the ability to work with all of the partners, which proved to be a very helpful opportunity” – Victor, Allay Health.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As a startup advisor, when I suggest cooperating with competitors, most entrepreneurs initially think I'm crazy or suggesting something illegal. And growth is the lifeblood of every startup. And growth is the lifeblood of every startup. It can establish architecture and industry-interface standards.

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