Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

My company is in the contract automation business so we have made our NDA available for free on our demo page so people can use it for free if they think it works for them. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Steve Blank [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

On the surface, it might seem difficult to quantify the value of good design – however, as per your article, I don’t see any reason why contracts with designers wouldn’t be structured in such a way that target conversion rates, bounce rates, and other metrics would drive the compensation level.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Lastly, a hybrid model makes sense for many types of agreements (NDAs, employment contracts, supplier agreements, etc.) Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

A lot of contract work is out there looking for mid- to low-cost providers. Keep your feelers out for contract work. upmod] [downmod] 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career | Software by Rob (softwarebyrob.com) 1 points posted 5 months ago by SixSixSix tags career imported saved by [.] #12

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

And that shouldnt require a contract at all. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. legal , nda , startups , trust. Jason Kottke.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] We fine tuned the idea throughout, even got letters of intent and partner contracts before we had a powerpoint. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.] This post was Twitted by diego_s [.]. link] Yaniv Nizan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

In contract to the linear execution via business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.) So starting with the vision of your product, get out of the building, and see if you can find customers and a market for the product as specified.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CMRR Definition : CMRR is "Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue." Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Tags: startupcto. Using Churn, you can calculate the Average Customer Lifetime - the average number of months that a customer stays with you before canceling. The calcuation is 100 / churn_percentage.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CMRR Definition : CMRR is "Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue." Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Using Churn, you can calculate the Average Customer Lifetime - the average number of months that a customer stays with you before canceling. The calcuation is 100 / churn_percentage.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Michael K – If you do contract work on the side, are building a product, or spend time with your family, then every minute has value. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob (tags: software business) [.] #35 " (tags: opensource software programming business marketing) [.] #40 at 9:05 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

These posts cover two distinct periods – the first, the rise of “ Microwave Valley ” chronicles the decade of 1946-1956 as Stanford University became the hub of military/industry contracting in the Bay Area. steve Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on August 7, 2009 at 1:26 am Said: [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

year contract that includes mobile app and phone support), handles everything a startup or small business might need, and it integrates seamlessly with Intuits other financial products. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] This post was Twitted by altgate [.] Reply links for 2009-07-02 « Blarney Fellow , on July 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm Said: [.] Reply Dmitriy , on July 2, 2009 at 9:10 pm Said: To me this looks like inherent problem with venture capital model.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Meanwhile, back at ESL the project I was working on wanted to extend my consulting contract, the company was trying to get me to return, and in spite of what I had done on the site , “the customer” had casually asked me if I was interested in talking to them about a job. Repeat every day, six or seven days a week.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Hire or Contract Good System Administrator This one is the last and the simplest tip of all. Dala December 19, 2007 at 10:17 am BigBlueHat » Blog Archive » Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups December 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR… « The Startup Guy. Browse Smarter.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You’ll meet some consultants or contract programmers who are used to waiting thirty or sixty days after completion of a project to get paid (though they usually get paid something upfront before they start). Tags: startupcto. You don’t have to hire a consultant (though that’s an option). 10-15/hour.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

2010 03 /07 CATEGORY Uncategorized TAGS dev shops development getting it built software startups tech themoreyouknow View Comments [link] Victor Wong I would say that if you have a strong development team and need contract developers who can work well remotely and under your project manager, then you can also bring in a development shop.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. With a boost from military R&D contracts, Huggins Labs continued to expand, diversifying into backward-wave oscillators, low-noise TWTs, and electrostatic focused tubes. (In

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup programming language 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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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Reply Anthony , on April 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm Said: “One candidate got a C in macroeconomics…That’s troubling to me.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen. link] Rockstar Sid Wonderful post.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In the next post I’ll be looking at how to build a long-list of developers, run an RFI to create a developer short-list, run an RFQ to select a vendor and a spare, and then what to look out for in the development contract. [Ed: Ed: Thanks Matt for continuing this insightful series.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

If you want contracts that hold up in court you’re going to drop serious coin with our friends in the legal profession. IF necessary, I contract work to American programmers (because they understand English). Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business | Software by Rob (tags: memori.us startup) [.] #36

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Sometimes it was the legal department crafting contracts so onerous I wouldn’t even sign it, let alone expect a customer to do so. The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank (tags: marketing business) [.] Or expense reporting requirements that took hours of a sales teams time to fill out every week. Well said.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Funded by military contracts these 1950′s startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

This entry was posted in Articles , legibility , reading , Research , sans serif , serif , typography and tagged linkedin. There’s a good reason for the fine print in dodgy contracts to be printed in 6pt sanserif narrow. Pingback: Elionstar » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. Protextuel.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Tags: startupcto. Scanning old photos is a multimillion $ biz with little unique tech or HR.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Only thing Ill add: dont ask the programmer to sign a lengthy contract with non disclosure agreements, invention assignment, etc. Its best to agree to everything on the front end, and get it all in writing in a contract. Fixed cost contracts (i.e. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives.

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