crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. Social Media Policy: The Good, Bad & Ugly (Fast Company) – [link]. Top-Pick Tutorials: Logo Design – Creation and Process – [link]. from blog archives) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. Social Media Policy: The Good, Bad & Ugly (Fast Company) – [link]. Top-Pick Tutorials: Logo Design – Creation and Process – [link]. from blog archives) – [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. By the time the meeting was over I left wondering whether the Customer Development model would help or hinder their companies. stumbled into customer creation and company building? It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Judging by the ink we had gotten, we were the hottest company in the game business, with stories in Fortune, Forbes, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the cover of Wired magazine. The story had universal appeal, and we spun the tale and keep the buzz going.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In those cases, you may have to rely on more traditional - and more expensive - project management software, such as Microsoft Project , for the heavy lifting, but you still might find value in BaseCamp as an intranet tool for the rest of your company. For example, sharing folders in a large company can still be a bit awkward.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. Titles are not the same as what your job is.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Company Culture Once we completed the hiring of our key staff, the next step was to create a great startup culture. Culture creation is not easy. You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. And owners CARE about their company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He was the professor who helped his students Bill Hewlett and David Packard start a company in 1939. The Harvard Radio Research Lab was his creation. In World War II he headed up something called the Harvard Radio Research Lab. So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. It was Fred Terman of Stanford.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. We visited a couple of retail stores to look at how other companies were packaging their products and how ours looked next to theirs.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. In the case of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, the root activity on the site is the sharing of content. Pinterest is not a media company. Contact Me.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. A company called Avid had introduced a $50,000 Mac-based professional broadcast video editing for two years earlier. The Video Spigot “What are we going to call it?”

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. And since Zilog still had a semiconductor fab next door, I learned what manufacturing did in a chip company, as every training class wanted to see their chips being made. One of her first comments was, “I didn’t know you even worked here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Picture the scene: the entire company (all 15 of us) are present. Some of us had worked together in previous companies; some of us had just started working together for the first time. Get Out of My Company At the top of his lungs he screamed, “You don’t know a damn thing about what these customers need!

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Richard Baxter is the CEO and founder of SEOgadget , a creative agency specialising in Technical SEO, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Content Creation and Link Building in competitive industries. Working out what websites they’re sharing most frequently is all about how we execute a Twitter search query via TAGS.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We This was a company that had sold 15,000 graphics boards and monitors to consumers. By now, nothing surprised me.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Local venture investors and/or companies offer cash prizes for the winners. I hate business plan competitions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

———— T o: Marketing Department From: Steve Subject: Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters Generating Leads Ownership If your company is going to a show to generate leads, then sales owns the show. While the industry average says only 20% of show leads are followed up, that only happens in other companies, not yours.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. The fact that a personal experiment fails or is delayed is no big deal, the fact that someone relies on a deadline and quality that you can influence is different. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The Customer Development model delineates all the customer-related activities in the early stage of a company into their own processes and groups them into four easy-to-understand steps: Customer Discovery , Customer Validation , Customer Creation , and Company Building.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you start your company with insufficient resources and knowledge. You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You start a company on a vision; on a series of Faith-based hypotheses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. are nonsensical.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This coder works for my company and is available to be used, but via my company only of course. Having your own coder provides you with so much flexibility in terms of product and site creation. Tags: startupcto. People do not understand the amount of time money and work it takes to source a good coder.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

You’ve built a sales organization and company that’s burning cash before you know if you have demand for your product or a repeatable and scalable sales model. Looking ahead to the product launch, the marketing group hires a public relations agency to refine the positioning and to begin generating early “buzz” about the company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? We only have 20 customers, and Large Company x has millions.” We’re about to ship next week.”

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. For example, I introduced a level system. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

I use a lot of concepts I learned in my previous social gaming company to keep the users hooked to improve their chance of staying focused on their goals. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. For example, I introduced a level system. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Trial with TimeSvr Recently, a new company generated some buzz online, TimeSvr. More than half of them are actually companies specialized in outsourced development. How can I automate content creation? Reply Lawrence Perry permalink The Virtual Personal Assistant can be the perfect assistant for companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. Why bootstrap?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 22, 2008

The basic gist is that the state of the public markets has little if any effect on entrepreneurial value creation. It’s more likely than not we’re in a similarly non-linear time… Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged crash , Europe , public market , venture capital.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. The actual value of the company you have built is $6M, not $8M.

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