Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

At first I almost just archived it on general principle. I decided that since it was a parody, it got to go in a different category than “Christmas-Music” in my brain and I tagged it instead as “Hilarious-Parodies Humor TechStars.” Six geeks-a-coding. And then I listened to it. And it was hilarious.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. Mired In Code. Granted, the above scenario doesn’t take into account. Mobile (3).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

focused on the technical fact that we accelerated (made much faster) this arcane piece of computer code. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] All the marketing materials, data sheets, advertising, press releases, trade shows, etc. Very much in addition to the text.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. If they don’t have it cut them immediately Lacks a culture of adaptability Not thinking about how to quickly get to the market and solve problems Continual code death march. Sometimes companies go on code marches to get something to the marketplace.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. you need to find out if this programmer is only happy making money coding. you need to find out if this programmer is only happy making money coding. Repeat the above as many times as needed to find that coder, who only codes and does nothing else.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I work for ThoughtWorks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Tags: socalcto startupcto. These are not revolutionary suggestions, just not necessarily those acted upon by first-time CTO / entrepreneurs.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. Engineering/QA.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? You are not looking for a Rails guy or a.NET girl or a Pythonista: you are looking for someone who writes good code but is also versatile, hard-working, and self-directed, who listens well and communicates effectively.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Register here for GROWConference, 8/21-23, Vancouver BC, Enter code wire for GeekWire discount. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Read more about why Chris is so bullish on this conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop. tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development. Customer development.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. Again, it’s important to keep your test assets, at least in the case of archiving and learning. Same is the case with your split testing URLs. Use 301 instead.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

One project was delayed and the quality of code has been questioned (and my reputation) and on the other project we didn’t get the traction we hoped (it should have worked, the model had been proven but the execution lacked attention to details). Well… yes I have learned a lot but probably not what I expected.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.] He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Reply Tadlock Enterprises » CTO Consultants says: November 19, 2009 at 9:52 pm [.]

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? A mediocre developer is likely to lead to flaws and bugs, poor performance, missed deadlines, unreliable estimates and code that is hard to build on. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do this before you write code you may end up throwing away. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] This is easy to test. to look at: when the plan (or process!) is clearly defined, but we fail to follow it.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

One easy, effective way to reduce the likelihood of your emails getting tagged as spam is to encourage new subscribers to add your email to their address book. Everything down to the images, content, links, and code making up your email are analyzed for a deliverability rating. Image source ). Does it look good on desktop?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. If I could “crack the code&# that so many other AdWords experts had supposedly done, I could set up campaign after campaign and spend $1 to make $1.10 It was an amazing journey. Yaro Starak. Vertically Integrated.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I have a background in computer science, but haven’t coded in years. Tags: startupcto. Anything is possible if you want it badly enough. When you’re looking for a programmer, don’t forget to pitch and interview yourself. 11 hours ago Earliest I've been awake in a long time. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 4, 2011

ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteCloud All Posts VMworld Archives Case Studies White Papers RSS Twitter Facebook Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

During this phase you‚Äôll need to be there for the developers to answer all their detailed queries which they‚Äôll have, as they start to architect and design the system Alpha, Beta, launch - Aroxo is currently in the process of recruiting beta testers (feel free to sign up using the sign-up code “readwrite&# ). Best of luck!

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Speaking of Github, Id love for them to implement pre-commit hooks, because then you could prevent developers from making commits any time the build is broken, which prevents people from ignoring problems in a large code base and just tunneling on building their one little feature. Tags: startupcto.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

The View (tasks/index.html.erb) "> The Javascript code (application.js) $("#big-search-box").bind("keyup", html(html); // replace the "results" div with the results });}); I am planning to improve this code to not do a search on every keystroke, but maybe allow a 1 second delay before the next search.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Kids are fantastic learners, and seem to be just as comfortable with web-apps as “install-me, license-me, pay-for-upgrades, lose-the-license-code, reinstall on another laptop … and so on&# commercial apps. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob (tags: software business) [.] #35 at 9:05 pm [.]

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

The View (tasks/index.html.erb) "> The Javascript code (application.js) $("#big-search-box").bind("keyup", html(html); // replace the "results" div with the results });}); I am planning to improve this code to not do a search on every keystroke, but maybe allow a 1 second delay before the next search.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 24, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags lean startup , social debt Lean startups, beware the social debt! Social Debt.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 29, 2010

Anyway, this is the piece of code you can add in a before_filter method in your ApplicationController in a Ruby on Rails application: host = request.host.gsub(/www./,&# ) if /^www/.match(request.host) We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I find this unnecessary.)

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

The View (tasks/index.html.erb) "> The Javascript code (application.js) $("#big-search-box").bind("keyup", html(html); // replace the "results" div with the results });}); I am planning to improve this code to not do a search on every keystroke, but maybe allow a 1 second delay before the next search.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

The code people will need to add to their blogs looks like that: widget-ilove{ margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; font-size:10px; text-align:center; width:70px; height:70px; border:1px solid #ccc; padding:0px 3px 3px 3px; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; margin-bottom:5px}.widget-ilove.heart{

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 12, 2010

When I deployed to Heroku, I had an error saying that the method html_safe didn’t exist in the String class so I simply integrated the code tweet_button.rb We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. That should be it for most of you. return text.html_safe if defined?(ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer)

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Customers of software applications don’t say, “wow, elegant code base.” Unfortunately, the market was going to remind us that games are about game play. Customers don’t care about your tools regardless of what business you’re in. Make sure it is yours. Don’t confuse your passion for your tools with why your customers will buy your product.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

I have sent to some candidates a mini project to do to see the quality of their code, I am waiting for their answers. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. The great thing about using these websites is that you can read the feedback left by previous customers.

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