Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They gave us input on 1) features our system needed, 2) what applications we needed to have, and 3) how to sell to people just like them. Reply steveblank , on October 19, 2009 at 2:27 pm Said: [link] Jose Diaz-Gonzalez , on October 19, 2009 at 11:25 am Said: I wholeheartedly agree with your advice.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] 2) They don’t care about your profitibility and ultimately, your staying power. 3) Managing the relationship is more consumptive than the rewards. Reply Daily Links #103 | CloudKnow , on September 24, 2009 at 6:45 pm Said: [.]

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds. Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The Startup Toolkit identifies the top tools in seven critical categories: productivity, project management, accounting, file sharing, payments, web content management and support. And thats why we have two winners in this category. Project Management/Tracking. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress. Teams had 59 days to create a killer app. One that solves a problem, is marketable, and demos well. Overall it was an impressive showing of local talent. You can view a list of contestants here. Zero-code meant you had to start with…um, zero code on day 1.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 2) The agile "happy place". If there are many enhancements in this category, the business and technical team must still prioritize. Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. Social, Agile, and Transformation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known? Armstrong was a god! The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. So much for timing.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. Jacob Webb Everyday Entrepreneurship [link] Reply Keenan , on April 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, Your Hueristics are at the core. It looks as though you and I have the same taste in layout, no? This happens for any number of reasons.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Also, if you’re an entrepreneur, make sure you hire and manage people so that they’re focusing on end goals and not motion or, once again, you’re screwed. Reply steveblank , on November 9, 2009 at 2:49 pm Said: You got it. It turns out that none of the figures, graphs and charts will display as is on the Kindle.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 16, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I Need Your Help! But Management and Marketing ? iTunes needs to re-think these stodgy old categories because it’s the closest thing to “startups&# they offer.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Picking Ventures: Part 2. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Picking Ventures: Part 2 : Comments. Picking Ventures: Part 2. Categories. Managing Company Growth. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Enter your Email. April 2013.

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APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Instead of just listing off the talents you’ll need to instill in your children to encourage them to become the good entrepreneurs of the future, I’ve sourced a number of gift ideas that fit within these categories. 2 toys to teach d elegation: If you’ve got this skill, you’re able to recognize that you can’t do everything yourself.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply jorge , on October 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: Fantastic! Reply Denny Ferrassoli , on October 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm Said: Excellent story!! Sale Guys, Account Reps, Project Manager – they all need to be able to deal with this without even blinking. You’re making him look good, so he should’t mind.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I I was beginning to think that my hiring managers were related to red-shirted guys on Star Trek.) There wasn’t a single stop-light along 2-lane highway for the 45 miles from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz. while doing 2 jobs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

2 Dustin on 07.25.10 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 3 comments ↓ #1 Martin on 07.20.10 at 7:00 am Sounds interesting, thanks for sharing! #2

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I hope we managed to teach our children compassion and charity for others. This year as American families face economic hardships, (one out of eight Californian’s are unemployed,) we remember that as a nation we are still a generous people, willing to share and give to others less fortunate then ourselves – both at home and abroad.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

But instead of focusing on just one category of thing, I am going to mix it up and make it about various resources any entrepreneur might benefit from. The website is an invaluable archive of past stories, any of which you can listen to via mp3 or read via the transcripts provided. The best tweets I read come from @benkunz.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These can be split into two main categories: Engagement metrics: The number of likes, shares, saves, comments, and clicks that your content receives on a given platform. With this tool, you can see different categories, view different topics, and see exactly what your audience is discussing. Repurpose the good old stuff. Google Trends.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

When the panicked manager of the magazine test lab would call under a last minute deadline, we would apologize profusely as we sent the cables over – with beer, pizza, and our product manager to help them through any testing “issues”. Reply Dave Goulden , on April 2, 2009 at 9:55 am Said: Thanks for the great stories!

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

We tried to buy some software recently that the vendor wanted to price on the basis of third party uses, a category of activity uncontrolled by us. Posted at 05:09 PM in Managing Company Growth | Permalink. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Thinking about pricing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e. Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Future posts will have some Ben stories.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&# I love the theory of market type but I think it is an advanced topic. Don’t launch.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

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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. It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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JULY 13, 2009

Not everybody knows somebody who knows a VC… Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for July 15th - The zeitgeist daily , on July 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm Said: [.] I talked a bit about it here [link] and will have more to say in later posts. The Press is Our Best Product — 9:28am via Google [.]

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories. But from a customer experience point of view, Im not yet sold.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically. 2]   Aligning interests in structure: cost and risk.   About the same cost as #2 but more flexible if repayment terms slip a bit. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. five years.).

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Categories. Managing Company Growth. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches? How To Change The World » December 14, 2009. Starting Startups. So, Paul Graham is a brainiac.    Amen.

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