crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design – [link].

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Reply Naveen JP , on July 10, 2009 at 12:18 am Said: Hi Steve, I have been thinking about an earlier comment of yours that `entrepreneurship is an art not a science’ It makes a lot of sense and I thought I will share my perspective on it (the same as yours but in different words). How do I get in the room next time?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same In the past entrepreneurship was viewed (and taught) as a single process, with a single approach to creating a business [.] [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » O MVP: a ferramenta de experimentação e aprendizado da Startup - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on January 12, 2010 at 7:08 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. Am I a Founder? carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.] altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing Term Sheets For Free [.] [link] OTCBB Shell The Definition Of OTCBB Shell « Crystal Shade [.]

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

So we can definitely expect KissMetrics to come up with new versions that will remove the incompleteness tag, I simply wanted to point the line between simplicity and incompleteness) Look at your own applications. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged angel funding , Equity Split , founder equity , technology. Bookmark the permalink. I’m intrigued though.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. By comparison entrepreneurship, especially the marketing side, is never this clear. A good read.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed. Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. 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.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged Google , Larry Page , Search , Search Engine , Terry Winograd , University of Michigan , Web page , Web search engine. altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.] Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F. I’m heading back to the US in the fall to pursue entrepreneurship in the US.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Especially because U are 3 out of 4 leaders (Paul Graham is still missing) in developing entrepreneurship in the US, as far as I can judge that here from Germany. The goal is to ultimately be able to plug in AARRR-like criteria for each type of business model. steve erikb , on November 17, 2009 at 2:38 am Said: Interesting discussion.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Other articles you might like The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Free online finance classes for entrepreneurs (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks One Comment → Hendro permalink Been there, done that. =) Agree with you that you have to feel the pain to internalize the lesson.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 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 facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 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 facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 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 facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Tags: How To Strategy business community inspiration start-up tips business plan crowdsourcing entrepreneur entrepreneurship research small biz small business smallbiz start-up startup startups. I hope you enjoy and will look forward to your comments! Resources: 2007 Economic Census.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Angel Investor , liquidation preference , startup , venture capital. link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » More on Liquidation Preferences — Topsy.com [.] Bookmark the permalink. Just make the price right.

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Altgate

JANUARY 5, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Entrepreneurship , Green Business , Management , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged top posts. Bookmark the permalink. ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! → Comments are closed.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. According to researchers, children are wired to love entrepreneurship, mainly because running a business requires creativity, autonomy, and making steady progress toward a goal, something that comes more naturally when you’re younger. What is it?

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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. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

It’s about entrepreneurship and family. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Interest Alignment Why VC’s invested in companies like ours is what’s great and bad about entrepreneurship. Our customers wanted to kill, shoot or hunt for something. Fancy video narratives and plots were not video games. With each of those ten companies returning 2x their money for $20 million. Make sure they are.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Reply links for 2009-12-08 « that dismal science , on December 8, 2009 at 11:31 am Said: [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?! Reply Top Posts — WordPress.com , on December 8, 2009 at 4:08 pm Said: [.]

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right? All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right? All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.]. Entrepreneurship blogs agree: Fail fast! Great comments.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged blog , entrepreneur , startup , Twitter.  You can copy these screen names and paste them into NinjaFollow, press submit and voila! Bookmark the permalink.

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