Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took lots of trial and error, learning by experience and resilience through multiple failures.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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JULY 7, 2009

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. Now In Print!

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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. Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. The same is true in your company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

via How to Start a Startup). Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Archive.

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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]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. We’re all in this together.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup. 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: [.] We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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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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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. Want Your Startup to Succeed? 8 Indispensable Qualities For Your First Startup Hire. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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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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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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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” 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. Second, forming a company is only one of many things entrepreneurs and startups need to do to protect themselves from potential liability.

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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. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. at 7:51 am [.]

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

I am aware that KissMetrics is applying the lean startup principle that promotes to publish a minimum viable product and iterate based on feedback. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. by Aymeric on April 28th, 2010 simplicity. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

At first I almost just archived it on general principle. I decided that since it was a parody, it got to go in a different category than “Christmas-Music” in my brain and I tagged it instead as “Hilarious-Parodies Humor TechStars.” On the twelfth day of Techstars my startup gave to me. Ten pitch sessions.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. My colleagues and I interact with startups a fair amount because were consultants. Tags: startupcto. Some interesting thoughts.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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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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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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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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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Where Do Tech VCs Invest? link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » More on Liquidation Preferences — Topsy.com [.] Bookmark the permalink.

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteHack.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! Tips: $75 Killver VC Pitch Deck Not much to learn here. That’s actually about what I would have guessed had I not seen the Google Analytics numbers.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. Let’s face it; the make up of your team is absolutely critical to the success of any startup. The fun part of about startups is that things will go wrong ; usually catastrophically in an “Oh my God, oh my God, we’re all going to die” kind of wrong.

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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. Resources: 2007 Economic Census. Bureau of Labor Statistics. WhoIs domain lookup.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

In the web startup industry, failure is more probable than success, it is a fact. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. For example, diversification. So how does one find the golden idea? When is focus a good thing and when is diversification a good thing?

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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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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

" Well, there are basically three ways you can link pay to performance (in startups): Discretionary (i.e. it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here. Bookmark the permalink.

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