Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Have a good weekend! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Go to trade shows like it matters. I’ll talk about web marketing in some later posts. Hope this helps steve Morteza Tatlari , on May 22, 2009 at 9:14 pm Said: Thanks Steve for your answer. that made it clear for me. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

And we had afternoons and weekends off. Every building/squadron had an officer in charge of us, and all 300 hundred or so would gather in the courtyard every Friday for our squadron meeting, where our lieutenant would give us orders for the weekend, (usually have a good time) and answer any questions. Should we cover their bowls?”

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. On nights and weekends I work on my own product – ThoughtMuse. October 6th, 2009 | Micropreneur Spotlight , Micropreneurship Building your startup? Set a sustainable pace.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

500 Startups makes a couple of important announcements today, including some staffing changes (the promotion of Christine Tsai to partner and the addition of Paul Singh as principal) and the recipients of two of its microfunds, the d.fund (its designer-oriented microfund) and Twilio fund (for startups utilizing the VOIP API).

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , HBS student business plan contest , startup. Bookmark the permalink. ← More “Open Source&# Legal Tools 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco → Comments are closed.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. August 11th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Our salesmen focused on accounts that ordered the largest number of chips and ignored tiny little startups that wanted to build personal computers around these chips (like Cromemco, Osborne, Kaypro, Coleco, Radio Shack, Amstrad, Sinclair, Morrow, Commodore, Intertec, etc.) Keep in mind this is still several years before the IBM PC and DOS.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

After having spent my whole (sunny)weekend working, I couldn’t manage to do the progress I wanted. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I will probably create the same task with a higher pay-out to see if I get a better conversion rate. I felt very frustrated.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

I’d spend a weekend in a college town, without a uniform, in a world as far away from nuclear weapons and the Strategic Air Command in politics and culture as you could get. Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. I was always kind of curious. I was always curious about, and asking about, the big picture.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

ReadWriteStart ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteStart All Posts Archives Featured RSS Twitter Facebook Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets (..)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Tags: startupcto.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Entrepreneurs often believe their startup company faces legal threats from only external sources.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’ve communicated with hundreds of startup founders over the past three years, and I’ve begun to notice a pattern. There are three points during the creating of a startup where the founders are most likely to close up shop. Same with SEO.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? « Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010. But wait Not all startups are alike. Its worth noting that technically capable startups may use esoteric languages with a great deal of success.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup. in security , startups. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? We’re A Startup.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

About this Blog If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. However, I noticed my RSS feed is also down, and when I remove the closing RSS tag the feed works in my browser, but FeedBurner chokes on it. I will blog about it more next week.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. I found your suggestions in the article “Startup Mistakes: The Partnership Gone Sour&# especially useful.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. November 18th, 2008 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. My wife knew a bit about startups. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. Sometimes this means developing it in the evenings / on weekends and takes away from family time (if you have one) and marketing, etc. but you at least have it exactly as you wish. Its always a tradeoff.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Point The point of The Software Product Myth is that at some point you are going to have too few sales to support yourself monetarily, yet too much work to fit comfortably into your evenings and weekends. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. He continued yelling, “We have a technical team assembled in this room that has more knowledge of scientific customers and scientific computers than any other startup has ever had.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space? Tags: startupcto. Posted by: Steve Weir | February 19, 2010 1:44 PM Awesome article!!

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Heres what they had to say about developers doing double duty as designers, trends theyd like to see disappear, and how aesthetics can help a startup sink or swim. Posted by: web application development | September 14, 2009 8:17 PM Interesting article, but why is the debeers article in a piece about startups? See Also Elegant.ly

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0

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