Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds Pitching the idea to the President of Stanford, Terman enthusiastically said, “In the event of all-out war , Stanford would become one of the giant electronic research centers…&# (A bit optimistic about the outcome perhaps, given that both the U.S.

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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. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities. The Social Layer. Cloud Computing. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web. Social Web.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As with any business, whether you’re starting a franchise or opening a cat cafe , doing your research is an essential first step you should never skip. Research your product. In addition to researching the Etsy platform, research your product. See Also How To Turn Your Hobby into a Business.

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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. If having co-founders changes the probability or rate of closing funding rounds, it would substantially change the conclusions. I’m intrigued though.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. time spent: 10% guiding research 30% Sales 30% Partnerships 30% Biz Dev Dealings Reputation After some startups, successes, and expanding your network things like getting a team, funding, and getting a startup off the ground are much easier the next time.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Luckily I didn’t have to get out there and do the research myself. 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.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

These new super angels are really signals in that marketplace that are causing others to invest or not invest based on their due diligence and research. Think of individuals like McClure, Paul Graham and George Zachary as market analysts. startupcto

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Very much in addition to the text.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The short video below contains my thoughts on the research process. 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. WhoIs domain lookup.

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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 [.] We also can bring product and development resources on board to build out initial products and setup engineering systems. Reply Tadlock Enterprises » CTO Consultants says: November 19, 2009 at 9:52 pm [.]

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. “We’re seeing that reflected in the healthy fund-raising numbers.”. billion during the first half of the year, up from $1.3 QThru lands $3.5M

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Tags: scorecard venture value Akira Hirai business valuation. As noted earlier, your Venture Value Scorecard should be updated monthly.

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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. When researchers test the efficacy of new drugs, they use a “split test.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

It was none other than Bill Perry, who had become the head of Research and Engineering for the Defense Department. From 1977 to 1981 Perry cranked up spending for research and development on a massive scale. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this?

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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. Your job is to wear the marketer’s hat, do the research, find demand then put the pieces together to serve that demand, then rinse and repeat. It was an amazing journey. There’s nothing inherently wrong about this model. Yaro Starak.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Of course, survey participants will continue to have access to the summary and interactive detail reports that allow specific position-by-position research and analysis. So, what do you think? What would you change or add? I would love to hear your thoughts. Bookmark the permalink.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? We can help!

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tags: startupcto. Blinding Automation Right before your Eyes - Video E-Day is Coming! Peter Drew Xrt Services Pty Ltd. Australian Postal Address. Po Bo 8595 Gold Coast Mail Centre Bundall State Queensland Country Australia Australian Post Code 9726.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The information is well presented and synthesized which saved me tons of research, since I didn’t have to spend as much time pulling information from lots of different sources. Rob: How has the Academy helped you get from square one to launch? Thomas: The Micropreneur Academy has been useful in several ways. at 2:21 pm [.] Subscribe!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. It’s all content of course, direct from my experience and research, into your hands. Tags: Membership Sites Search Engine Optimization Blogs & Blogging membership site mastermind website traffic.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Is further technical research needed to ensure that the product can be built? Statistical and market research data plus potential customer interviews determine whether the ideas have merit. The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Is it possible to build?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Fred Terman Terman’s first step was to recruit 11 former members of his staff from the Harvard Radio Research Lab — “Congratulations, you’re now Stanford faculty.&# Not only were they all great researchers, but they also had just spent three years building electronic warfare systems that were used in World War II.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Those years were filled with books like John Willinskys "If only we knew: Increasing the public value of social science research" and texts like Jurgen Habermas "Discourse Ethics". If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. Jason Kottke.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. Tags: startup metrics startupcto. LIAD new to this blog. great in-depth article.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Some people make a living out of being virtual assistants and helping busy people with their everyday tasks (such as organizing a meeting, doing some online research, calling someone, etc…) Depending on the skill set and the country of origin, the cost of hiring a virtual assistant can be as low as 5 US$ an hour.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2016

News stories get archived, shared and remembered for long, so the impact on sales by being featured in a TV segment is much higher than being featured in advertisements during commercial breaks. A large number of journalists also look at social media channels for every article they research.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Ubuntu is free, after 6 hours of research and command line tricks trying to get your laptop to connect to your network. Like UI designers, usability testers, product managers, user researchers, visual designers, information architects, technical writers, testers, user experience testers and — yes — marketers. at 9:05 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Thx for sharing (and researching)! Reply Claire , on June 23, 2009 at 2:44 am Said: This is great, thanks a lot for that great research and writing. Terman, who now was the Provost of Stanford, had joined the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2017

username] : All of the above (basically, any mention of the username when the user is tagged in a tweet). seosmarty -> excluding tweets tagging me because Twitter does a good job notifying me of these already using “Notifications” feature. Cyfe: Monitor & Archive Brand Mentions on Twitter. Price : FREE.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. Tags: startupcto.

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The government, especially DARPA , many university research departments, Xerox PARC (and Interval Research, where I worked briefly in 2000) have sunk a lot of time and money into this kind of research, in some cases billions of dollars, and a lot of this research not only available but free to all comers. Another avenue.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research the U.S. 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 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. at 12:56 pm [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

As part of my research I’m going back and reading the boxes and boxes of notes and pictures from my time at Michigan, particularly my time on the solar car team. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management and tagged advice , solar car , startup , vision. I was struck by one sheet of paper.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Answers like, “because our competitors are there,” or “because it’s on our calendar,” or even “because I think we should,” don’t cut it. ( Remember your department has a mission.) Plus tips on overall trade show strategy.

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