bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was about to get an education that would last a lifetime. I personally didn’t have any facts, and if we were counting opinions, there were a bunch more educated opinions in that room than I had. Reply jorge , on October 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: Fantastic! Picture the scene: the entire company (all 15 of us) are present.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. Reply Wyatt ODay , on July 2, 2009 at 8:18 am Said: Great post, Steve.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly. And the German night fighters had their own on-board radar. No kidding.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

One got added to the latter category Tuesday: design firm Cuban Council, which will be shipping off a portion of its team to help improve the look of Google+.). In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Like Tweet. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

This station just had one guy with a 2×4 piece of lumber, a large rubber mallet and a folded blanket. I believe the thesis of the article was that middle-upper middle class provided a strong base of education and resources, but without removing the overwhelming economic drive to succeed. Good point.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

This market cries out for a sales force that can help educate and guide the market to making the right choices. Reply Jerry Sheridan , on November 6, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, I don’t think you and I overlapped at CT (I was there from 87-91), but your picture looks familiar.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. My good friends and I lived in a house together working on 2 start-ups and we would call the house Sarajevo. Friends will want you to go back to school and get more “education.&#

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Reply Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: Steve, I’ve read and re-read that section in Chapter 2 re: market types and I still don’t fully comprehend. Apple’s marketing at first was about educating you about the ecosystem of doing something new. Ditto with iPod with mp3 players (but with iTunes).

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I was wondering how long it would take you.&# I was now manager of Training and Education at Zilog. Reply steveblank , on July 27, 2009 at 2:46 pm Said: John, You’d be surprised how many people don’t. Reading a few of the basic books on selling and influence (just google for a list) 2. All I had to do was ask.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Consider, for example, archiving your podcasts for free via YouTube. One element podcasters typically don’t spend much time thinking about is the show category. For example, my old show covered a variety of topics about parenting and fatherhood, and each show was posted under multiple categories based on the theme (e.g.,

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

#strata2012 >> 2012/02/28 The "2 most important algorithms in predictive modeling" talk at #strataConf is just amazing know-how for the taking. Categories. Consulting (2). Education (6). Methodology (2). February 2011 (2). January 2011 (2). August 2010 (2). June 2010 (2). June 2009 (2).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring did not have to educate them about the market. What Palm needed to do first was to educate potential customers about what a PDA could do for them. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. Handspring’s customers understood what a Personal Digital Assistant was.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Unless there’s already a successful product out there that looks very similar to yours, you probably fit in this category. link] Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for March 8th – The zeitgeist daily [.] Add all your points up. If you have more than 10 points, you can use a dev shop.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation. Categories. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. Small Business Blogs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. New Communications Review. OReilly Radar. Planning, Startups, Stories. Small Business Trends. Smart Mobs.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry. Although Learning Management is old news, Talent Management represents a broader set of emerging functionality around internal employee management and development, and has come to define the broader category which is also known as Human Capital Management.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Picking Ventures: Part 2 » September 27, 2011.   Making educated guesses about which new ventures to invest in, truth be told, is a process prone to lots of error.   Making educated guesses about which new ventures to invest in, truth be told, is a process prone to lots of error. Categories. April 2013.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

As I enjoyed my post-graduate vertical marketing education , I had forgotten the real purpose of spending time in the field. Opinions had been eliminated as part of marketing’s dialog inside the company; we had achieved “fact nirvana.” But there was one fatal flaw.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Georges Doriot the first VC Doriot and American Research and Development are worth noting for: Some of the very early VC’s got their venture capital education at Harvard as Doriot’s students ( Arthur Rock , Peter Crisp , Charles Waite.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Some 2 million students have trained there since it opened in 1942. On one hand, we were in a rigid command and control system where we had to follow orders, salute officers and understand the military hierarchy, yet on the other we were in an educational institution where we were encouraged to ask all the questions you wanted.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

We chatted with a panel of expert aesthetes in the space, including Spymaster designer Eston Bond , veteran creative director Rich Barrett , designer/developer Warren Benedetto , Mike Rundle of 9rules and Beak fame, and the Paul du Coudray Lowdown , the winner of this years Rails Rumble appearance category. Drives me crazy. zero personality!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Martin , on April 7, 2009 at 3:17 pm Said: Of course, the other way to look at this is that formal education should become more like working at a startup if we want students to stay engaged. If we want more creative students, then we should make an educational system that rewards creativity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

September 11, 2009 2:28 PM Jeff said. September 11, 2009 2:46 PM Osprey said. It doesn't matter if they are the 2 percent who post out of the community; they are the antennae of the race. September 14, 2009 2:38 PM Ciaran Laval said. Thanks for sharing this lesson learned, Eric. It's a very articulate arguement.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  Many of you did.   ·       Do we have a belief system that everyone supports? ·       Do we have a real dedication to training and education? ·       Do we give people responsibility? Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Not in planning meetings, not in writing multiple pages of nicely formatted Marketing Requirements Documents, but by getting laughed at, ignored, thrown out and educated by potential customers as you listen to their needs and test the fundamental hypotheses of your business. It was really enlighting in the beginning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. But the ranks of highly educated unemployed and the abysmal failure rates of new products both speak to the same question that needs answering: not, “can it be built?&#

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 12, 2018

2- Put a twist to a common word. Reward them with cash for anyone they engage, cap their earnings with any excess going to charity or to fund their education. Some are of extreme luxury and fall under the category of glamorous. Thanks to Justin Baum, ZZZ Bears ! #2- Photo Credit: Dan Kamins.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

We were going to do that by turning marketing into a machine to generate end user demand, drive the that demand into our sales channels, and educate our sales channels. Educate them. Reply Naveen JP , on May 6, 2009 at 2:09 am Said: This reminds me that free, fair and equal is logically not possible. Fantastic post!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 31, 2009

Other articles you might like The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Not all good opportunities are good to take (1) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups No comments yet Click here to cancel reply. Thank you MIT, thank you College Mogul.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2013

Month 2 – Set-up Foundational Content Calendar. This month you’re going to get serious about creating landing pages for very specific purposes such as signing up for your email newsletter, downloading your eBook or attending a free educational online seminar. Here’s another category that lots of people want to jump right into.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process. If had released 2-3 years ago it would have made them all look like shit.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m 3 years in on my first venture with 2 kids and you’ve outlined some fantastic, and very concrete, suggestions. Martin , on June 18, 2009 at 2:10 pm Said: I’m glad Maura broke the ice. Reply nileshbabu , on June 19, 2009 at 2:07 am Said: steve – i’m hooked on this blog. Reply Michael F.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Aim for educated countries that speak fluent english instead like Norway, Finland, etc… Fine grained Facebook ads The Facebook ads platform is a different paradigm from Google Adwords advertising. Seems to be effective in 2-3 day bursts once a month. Avoid to target USA / Canada / UK that everybody else is targeting.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Aim for educated countries that speak fluent english instead like Norway, Finland, etc… Fine grained Facebook ads The Facebook ads platform is a different paradigm from Google Adwords advertising. Seems to be effective in 2-3 day bursts once a month. Avoid to target USA / Canada / UK that everybody else is targeting.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

x" Doing step #2 isnt probably simple for everyone. check their references to get them into the right category. John Patrick Thomas (2010-06-20) # Hi Derek, Ive got 2 programmers, and theyre doing what they can in spite of me. Step #7 1/2 Id have a third developer review the code of the developer that you picked.

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