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. Tools, blogs, Twitter personalities, magazines and newspapers, conferences – any should be fair game for this particular list.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Vertical is a reference term (or a category) not an actual industry. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, If your market is missing, just add it as we go through this discussion. on May 26, 2009 at 6:18 am Said: [.] The original terms we used were perfectly fine…why %$#@ with them?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

Sean explains why that too is sometimes easier said than done… Sean Ellis , GrowthHackers.com : “If one person is responsible for all ideation, they generally run out of ideas within a few weeks (at least ideas worth testing). You give each of the three categories a number from 0 to 10, which spits out a number for the idea as a whole.

Framework 48

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The other day, my colleague asked me how many company pitches I’ve personally seen. When we were calculating it out, it came out to about 20k!

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size.   There are three categories (startup, equity financing and bridge loans) so we can expect more to come. altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing … [.]

Term Sheet 52

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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. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang. We’re building a supercomputer.”

North Carolina 125

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. Blog Categories. are not met.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? Scalable: The goal is not to get one customer but many – and to get those customers so each additional customer adds incremental revenue and profit.

Lean 244

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

She realized that more persistence and creativity was required in getting to the right person. Like killing a person with a nuke is effective, but using a.45 It is about whether person truly believes into end-goal and truly want to achieve it. 45 is efficient. You can get away with effective behavior in a large company.

Silicon Valley 324

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc., 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: [.] are much more differentiating than technology.

Vertical 144

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

No longer personally involved, I became a dispassionate observer. At about the same time, two newer companies asked me to join their boards. Between the board work and the consulting, I enjoyed my first-ever corporate “out-of-body experience.”

Silicon Valley 125

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Categories. Tech Investor News A new mashup of technology company newsfeeds sorted by major category, company etc. Silicon Valley Frontlines. In-the-Trenches Consulting to Startup and Emerging-Growth Companies. « Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs! Why Do Otherwise Sensible Companies Not Have CFOs? » January 23, 2010.

Silicon Valley 40

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

set up a top secret, 800-person lab to do just that, first, to gather signals intelligence to understand the &# Radar Order of Battle&# and then, to wage “electronic warfare&# by building mechanical and electronic devices to severely hamper the Germans’ ability to target and aim their weapons. So the U.S. Reply Benjamin A.

Silicon Valley 180

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

I believe that founder, early and later stage employees require different risk/personality profile. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work.

Cofounder 219

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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+.). But just in case startups feel like haggling, we hear from other conference attendees that Page has to personally approve any change whatsoever in the offer price.

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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. You are on my blogroll now.

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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. This way, you’ll be able to use the holidays as an opportunity to buy presents that serve a greater purpose.

Stock 60

Stock Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Worse, there wasn’t a single person on our executive team who had come from a game company. It’s nothing personal, but your interests and your VC’s may not be aligned. Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. More on this in future posts.)

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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. So hows a normal person to choose? And what distinguishes a good app?

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

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 youre it , on October 8, 2009 at 3:07 pm Said: Typical marketing person…the problem is that 99% of marketers have yet to learn your lesson. He was right. Carly Simon was right.

Silicon Valley 271

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

I wanted our PR department to get close and personal with the press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. ( Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 259

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

My personal interest in podcasting, however, is how it dovetails beautifully with voice search. Our personalities balanced each other well, and it more than doubled the “perspective” brought to the show. Consider, for example, archiving your podcasts for free via YouTube. Podcast format, frequency, and duration.

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

If there are many enhancements in this category, the business and technical team must still prioritize. Once something is hard and out of scope for prototyping, it falls into one of two categories. Blog Archive. This Web blog are my personal opinions and creations, and not those of my current or former employers.

Agile 40

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. It’s not the person you like the most. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision.

Cofounder 101

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Broadly, Facebook attracts photo sharing and light-hearted personal content. rather than aggregating on one common platform and hoping to wade through a morass of content to catch a piece that might be relevant to their own personal interests, etc. High intent categories and keywords will drive highest yield. Contact Me.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I think thats the person you need. If you think thats person you need, the question becomes "what else do you expect a CTO to contribute?" Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. I work for ThoughtWorks. This is my technology blog.

Fractional CTO 40

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically.   His entire income is based on his personal output and he’d like to hire several woodworkers, expand his sales to existing customers, and generate a profit in addition to his contributed labor.    But details in each category vary dramatically.

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results). Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc. For us, we run a small team and it’s perfect for organizing and archiving test ideas. Lots of flexibility, and with a focus on personalization as well.

Software Review 48

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here’s what Joel thinks of the “Personal Theme&# for WordPress… What is the Personal Theme? Personal Theme is brought to us by Kevin Muldoon of Blogging Tips. Personal Theme comes with an admin options area in which you can do many things. What Is Under The Hood? What Could be Improved?

Technical Review 73

Technical Review HTML Social Bookmarking PHP 73

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Would have getting a signed confidentially agreement deterred this person?&# Thanks for sharing you personal experience. We concluded that, at least for us in this market, an NDA would be a bigger impediment than asset. Now we started asking ourselves, “Did we make a mistake? But that still left us with a problem.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Browse archives by date. This is my personal blog. Categories. This means that either (a) the person making the key architecture decisions is a moron (unlikely, but always a possibility, and there are some rabid Perl fans out there); or (b) there is some other consideration forcing them into Perl. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently

Stealth 40

Stealth IP NDA Startup 40

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ). Jason Cohen , on July 30, 2009 at 11:23 am Said: To pile on, it’s also important that it’s *in person* and not only over email or the phone.

Silicon Valley 131

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All of these men are listed in the category of Forbes Billionaires. This includes being successful, obtaining personal freedom, gaining fame, or getting rich. They are all successful, have a great deal of personal freedom, and are all financially well off. Really big. Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Taking sympathy on me, the HR person made a few calls, and said, “Sure, but he doesn’t have the budget for a lab tech. I refuse to be a “could have, would have, wish I&# person. I caught my breath and thought about it for a minute and said, “How about I go talk to the new training manager.

Agile 245

Agile Silicon Valley RSS California 245

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.

Silicon Valley 175

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Instead, the goal of content marketing is to encourage people to read and perhaps engage with the content, and to begin developing a relationship with the person or entity that created that content. In such cases, the copyright holder can sue the person or organization who used the content without permission. According to the U.S.

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