SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. The discussions on the posts are quite interesting - and heated.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Weve also found that potential clients find us through LinkedIn. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At Apple they gave us classes on interviewing candidates, and the number one technique they recommended was drawing out past experiences in great detail. Tags: startupcto. Start your questions with " Tell me about a time when. ", and follow up on that with even more specific questions. then youll be off to a good start!

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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. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In Customer Discovery we were learning as much from them as they did from us. And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter. We concluded that, at least for us in this market, an NDA would be a bigger impediment than asset.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Graphic designer redesigns US money in spare time. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! We’re all in this together.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. Their engineers hated us. This being presented to another company’s proud engineering team who was being forced to buy product from us because they couldn’t build their own in time.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

But with a little bit of thought it struck us that if we attempted to do that, our competitors had a pretty substantial advantage, since they held nearly 90% of combined market share. They had more than enough dollars to outspend and out market us. If we tried to match them on their playing field we’d never catch up.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. It made no logical sense (a fact engineering reminded us about several times.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Especially because U are 3 out of 4 leaders (Paul Graham is still missing) in developing entrepreneurship in the US, as far as I can judge that here from Germany. Reply web Development Company , on November 18, 2009 at 5:30 am Said: Hi This is really nice article, Thanks for sharing to us. So please, go on!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

And we made sure that instead of some artificial numbers, the benchmarks truly measured performance on these four key applications our customers told us were important. Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Not because we’ll be taking commands from science fiction’s robot overlords, but because specialized AI will allow us to apply data science to our human interactions at work in a way that earlier theorists like Peter Drucker could only imagine. Specialized AI will even help us improve that scourge of productivity, the meeting.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Hey, we just all bought into this Mission idea and now you’re telling us it can change?!” Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] We introduced the notion of Mission intent.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The first chart shows the average pre-money valuation for the first round of US technology companies founded in the last 5 years, provided said round was between one and two million dollars. Bookmark the permalink. I’m intrigued though.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Our first question was, did the total number of customers that had already bought products from our competitors and us represent a saturated market or the tip of the iceberg? First I need to make sure what we really learned was information we could base a company strategy on.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. Spare no expense to find the absolute best person for this role. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Stephanie Maslow of Metalicious gave us this tip. Make sure your Etsy tags and keywords are those which people can easily find you, both on Etsy and when searching for a particular item on Google. I’ve used this for reference myself in the past. What tips and resources did you use? Let us know on Twitter! .

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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. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. The full article includes 11 realizations and a worksheet.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

If you’re less technically focused, but curious as to how you might find ways to use this data for your selves, you’ll need a copy of Martin Hawksey’s Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS v5.1). Working out what websites they’re sharing most frequently is all about how we execute a Twitter search query via TAGS.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. XML sitemap.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The chart show average pre-money valuation by liquidation preference for 667 rounds of first or second fundings for US technology companies that actually had a liquidation preference. link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » More on Liquidation Preferences — Topsy.com [.] Bookmark the permalink.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Many of us have done freelance work in the past, often for startups. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. My colleagues and I interact with startups a fair amount because were consultants. I work for ThoughtWorks. This is my technology blog.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Internet Archive Wayback Machine. US Patent and Trademark Office. 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. The short video below contains my thoughts on the research process.

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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. Use My Podcast Reviews : iTunes separates reviews by country, so if someone from Canada leaves a review, people in the US can’t view it. The key to gaining more subscribers is to form a connection with your audience.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war. Fred Terman Sent Us In 1953 the U.S. We cannot equal the quality of US arms for a generation or two.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Contact Us. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Join us August 11 and 12 for GeekGirlCon ’12. Geek of the Week Archive. GeekWire Events. Startup Resources. Dispatches from the Digital Frontier. About GeekWire. Advertise with GeekWire. Posts Comments Startups.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Out of the four of us, we had two web designers, one graphic designer and a physicist! Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup.

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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? Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore. Tags: startupcto. All rights reserved.

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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?

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. You can still use your existing account to access our older services, like the ERE Network.) We hope youll bear with us during this transition period, and we hope we havent confused you too badly during it. Contact us. Not logged in. [ financials.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. Believe it or not, banking is a core part of some businesses (think PayPal or Zopa), but for most of us, it’s a basic support service to be outsourced. He basically outsources everything.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Personal Theme is brought to us by Kevin Muldoon of Blogging Tips. Other options are pretty standard, such as excluding menu items, changing fonts and an archives page. Tags: Blogs & Blogging kevin muldoon personal blogs premium wordpress blog theme. They may have different color schemes and/or design layouts built in.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

Another director of Lingopal and I spent a day with Aymeric in Auckland, working through a bunch of ideas to make the best use of Facebook for our business, which in short, is selling iPhone apps (soon Android also). We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

Another director of Lingopal and I spent a day with Aymeric in Auckland, working through a bunch of ideas to make the best use of Facebook for our business, which in short, is selling iPhone apps (soon Android also). We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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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. This is a wonderful thing, it forces us to care about other people beyond ourselves, even though ultimately we are doing it because it makes us feel good. It was an amazing journey. As long as we all benefit, you can’t complain right?

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