SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? carry on reading.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. For more on social discovery, see Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars.

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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. But make sure it fits who you are.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

and 3x kept coming up time and again in attacker/defender ratios when I gamed out our market entry strategies. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] I had found that the numbers 1.7x What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book?

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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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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JUNE 25, 2009

Just as I thought we were going to talk about the product, he then mentioned the previous nights football game. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

For a startup Speed and Tempo need to be an integral part of your corporate DNA. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VIDEO GAMES. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geeky Gathering Spots: Check out this new category in GeekWires Startup Resource Center , spotlighting some of the best places in the Seattle region for your team to huddle over coffee, drinks or games. Geek of the Week Archive.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this drive to create something new, crazy, innovative and globally game changing. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Companies 8 comment(s) | 3388 view(s) Hello World!

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. I just wish I don’t have to fight another company with such an unstoppable team led by Steve for my life.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which recently defeated one of the world’s top Go players, Lee Sedol, four games to one. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Get out of the building and meet people.

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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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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. I am a business person, not a technologist. While I know I can add value, I also know when and how I can add value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. Positive reviews show social proof that others like and listen to your show, and that’s another important element in the review game. The key to gaining more subscribers is to form a connection with your audience.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Steve Blank [.] Reply links for 2009-12-08 « that dismal science , on December 8, 2009 at 11:31 am Said: [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

My past experience with Facebook For two years, I was co-running a business that was developing in-house applications and games for Facebook. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I am available for Facebook consulting and would love to help you.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

My past experience with Facebook For two years, I was co-running a business that was developing in-house applications and games for Facebook. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I am available for Facebook consulting and would love to help you.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

My past experience with Facebook For two years, I was co-running a business that was developing in-house applications and games for Facebook. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I am available for Facebook consulting and would love to help you.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.] via SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks « St… [.]

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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. my potential mentor is asking me to work with him! 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? Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The new insight was that we could change the game completely and take advantage of a lead we had that was getting longer every day – by using our computer and chip technology to aggressively build a new generation of weapons that the Soviet Union could not. In response the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. It is not a zero-sum game.". Tags: Events. Go to your users.".

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] Put faith in facts!

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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