SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

How do I get in the room next time? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Reply John Muldoon , on July 9, 2009 at 1:52 pm Said: This was really fabulous to watch. Now In Print!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

via How to Start a Startup). You’re not going to find your next major growth breakthrough in a growth hacks listicle. Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. The next iterations / steps. via CXL Live). Your Tempo and Resources. via GrowthHackers).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

And he recognized it was making his startup feel and act like a big ponderous company. Speed = Execution Now General George Patton said, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. The same is true in your company.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. In a startup success isn’t about just execution, it’s how well we could take our original hypothesis and learn, discover , iterate and execute. Over the next two years we left them in the dust.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

After the meeting our sale rep took me aside and asked if “perhaps I wouldn’t mind watching him on the next call.“ Sports Scores The next day, as I drove to our next meeting the sales guy was intently reading the sports section of the newspaper and as I glanced over he seemed to be writing down the scores.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup. I have been following for about a month, and always look forward to the next post. In contrast, customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc.

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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. The Secret Life of Fred Terman in the next post.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. This is the first of a series of posts on the company. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Risky Business: How Technology Can Help You Manage Risk BC/DR in Action How to Create a Business Continuity Strategy Survey Says: Hybrid Approach to Cloud Offers Best-of-Both-Worlds New Age for the Sales Process More from the Think Gig Blog » POPULAR TAGS enterprise enterprise 2.0 startupcto

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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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. ReadWriteWeb’s Dave Copeland will be speaking at the SocialDiscovery.org’s next Social Discovery Conference on Aug. and tagged with. Enterprise. ReadWriteWeb.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. Most startups put together a corporate mission statement because the CEO remembered seeing one at their last job, or the investors said they needed one. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount. Tags: startupcto. then youll be off to a good start!

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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. I read all your posts today and can’t wait for the next one. I’ve never said this before on a blog, but I can’t wait for your next post. What did I learn so far?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Company Culture Once we completed the hiring of our key staff, the next step was to create a great startup culture. Leave a comment Trackback Tags.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Next, we needed to focus our messages away from technology and onto what the customers told us they needed – performance solutions for four key publishing applications. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.]

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

What's Next. ” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Monthly archive. The Feed Blog.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

In his post, Roberts says he was not turned off by the quality of startups, but by the investment philosophy pushed by the service. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. s clear that he favors the concentrated approach to startup investing. social proof?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And Randy Ubillos, its author, went on to author Mac-based video editing software for the next 18 years. At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” It was fun watching it happen.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Perhaps if you have a union job based on seniority, but not in any startup I’ve ever seen. 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. For entrepreneurs good things come to those who ask.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

And you know how, if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning? 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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I Stay out of startups. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? I just want to do strategy.” Those were very short interviews. Tactics mean tenacious and relentless execution measured in years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup Resources. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. LOVELLETTERS: Advice for startup geeks.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? I’m no expert on the subject, but I’m the technical cofounder of one startup that I’ve been working on for three years now, and I’ve accumulated many thoughts about this challenge.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We visited a couple of retail stores to look at how other companies were packaging their products and how ours looked next to theirs. Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already. Standing in the aisles we collectively got a sinking feeling. Our choice of black had made our retail box invisible on the shelf.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES , Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs. Lecture topic : What VCs Look for in Startups.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

A few weeks ago when I was talking with Scott about the event he asked what I thought was “next in technology.&# I think one of the biggest new opportunities is going to be a new class of companies that are now viable investments because of improvements in capital efficiency over the past few years. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If leads from this show do not turn into orders, why are we going again next year? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. To close the loop between leads and orders, always offer a sales commission bonus for orders that came from leads followed up from a show. It’s amazing how effective how a bonus can be.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Peter Coles. Jon Russell. Jonah Peretti. Lauren Leto.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

There is no certainty about a startup on day-one. At each startup I couldn’t wait to do this. Fact-based Execution However, successfully executing a startup requires the company to become Fact-based as soon as it can. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative. Great, sign me up.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Note that the Scorecard is only available to 2010 survey participants, so if you didn’t take this year’s survey, you’ll just have to wait until next year. ← Outsourcing For Startups No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. My small part as a foot solider in this adventure is in the next post.

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