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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Lots of people keep their ‘head in the cave’ and go without customer contact while burning their savings and running up credit cards. Don’t we have to get the site/plugins up and running before we gather information from users? Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

To do that we needed to build a supercomputer, but since the RISC processors weren’t fast enough, we decided to build a multiprocessor supercomputer, (running up to 4 processors in parallel.) I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group. A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

While their titles might be what their business cards said, titles were not their job – at least in any marketing department I was running. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Yet the customers not only had told us who they were – color desktop publishers – but what they cared most about – graphics performance when running their four key applications. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ? Very much in addition to the text.

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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. Connect (off)line? Thanks much.

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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.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

A mid-range setup, including condenser mic, stand, upgraded mixer, acoustic panels (for a makeshift recording room) and Adobe Audition CC software will run $150 and up. Hosting fees range from free to $99/month, but the most common starting point will run about $20/month for reasonably robust management and reporting. Image source ).

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Rather than risk having your car repossessed, you should run the loan or investment through the company. Blog Categories. Monthly archive. CATEGORIES. Doing so is very risky, however, because you are personally responsible for repayment of the loan until the obligation is properly transferred to your company.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

  Those that cannot deliver, or who mistake relationships with others as an opportunity to run for office, will increasingly be marginalized.    Those that cannot deliver, or who mistake relationships with others as an opportunity to run for office, will increasingly be marginalized.  Categories.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

RSS Archive. Run with extra load. so any of those scripts that haven’t been run since then might depend on old assumptions. Maybe it sounds stupid to run fire drills on the live site, but testing environments are not sufficient and this is really good insurance. Run infrequent stuff more often in general.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). One of the frequent questions raised about Groupon is what their long run gross profit margins may look like. But other categories make up a healthy chunk of the offer mix. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. You’ll see the best ways to run tests, prioritize hypotheses, analyze results, and the best tools to experiment through A/B testing. You can also run multivariate and bandit tests. What is A/B testing?

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

That generally comes from running the business together. It's not that the startup cannot outsource or otherwise satisfy the needs you outlined, but having someone who is passionate about your company, as well as committed to the long run, appears better. The other problem area is that of growth. Some interesting thoughts.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  But details in each category vary dramatically. If Sarah wanted to keep and run the company, she may be able to structure some sort of junior-debt like cash flow repayment as previously discussed.    But details in each category vary dramatically. Categories. « Leaving a Trail | Main. |

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Up and Running

MAY 26, 2016

Starting and running a nonprofit is richly rewarding in and of itself. The FAQ page is a great place to start, because it helpfully breaks their content into relevant categories for easy perusal. While archived materials are only available for purchase, many of the upcoming webinars are free to attend. Free tools and resources.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Business of Software - Joel Spolskys forum which has been running for over a decade now. Full of smart people running their own startups and ISVs (independent software vendors). It is worth subscribing and browsing the categories and the developers. New Web Order. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. 5th November 2010. #.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). I guess if youve run a pattern across the middle with Ray Lewis waiting to knock your head off, a 6 minute pitch in front of a bunch of geeks is a piece of cake. Blog Archive. FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. Identify What Content Categories Matter Most. Common content categories to tag include: Author.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Google runs A/B tests. First, running A/B tests that dynamically swap elements via javascript is not content cloaking. If you’re running tests, this really isn’t a concern, as Google expects you to be providing dynamic experiences. Only run the experiment as long as necessary. Google has its own testing tool.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Many institutions have digital archives of historic maps. Also, if you are an entrepreneur, check out all the cool panels and presentations in the Entrepreneurship and Startups Track , which runs March 8–12 at SXSW.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

Other articles you might like Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Slides: Why Ruby on Rails rocks? If you use the term ‘simple’ to describe them, are they really simple or were you too lazy to polish them with the last details that would make them simple AND great? incomplete)?

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

What may actually work is approaching somebody and telling them, “look, I have 50k to get this prototype up and running, you can either take it all, or get some cash and equity if you like my idea and you think it’s gonna work&#. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Evan Williams. see a pattern?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Then they can run another customer development process on their revenue hypotheses later. Can’t customer development work well for other effective definitions of validation and isn’t that how the startups that you’re talking about (Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, etc.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

After a year and a half of running training and teaching the new Z-8000 and its peripheral chips, I began to figure out that one of the jobs of marketing was to translate what engineering built into a description that our salesmen could use to talk to potential customers.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Geeky Gathering Spots: Check out this new category in GeekWires Startup Resource Center , spotlighting some of the best places in the Seattle region for your team to huddle over coffee, drinks or games. Our advice reflects our hands-on experience of running and growing a successful business. Geek of the Week Archive.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

We would run in and put test versions of dummy boxes on the shelf and just watch what happened – we wanted to see if people picked up the box, and when they did what they looked at and what they read. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One minor footnote regarding the 2003-2008 M&A period… in addition to Google IPO, 2004 also saw the Salesforce.com IPO which did well both in initial trading and long run growth.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

An honest refusal is probably better than an overcommitted yes on the long run (for both parties). Also I may not have to say no either maybe I can simply delay them until my current project is completed. When is lack of focus a good thing? Today, I still remember the bitter lesson and try to stay focused on only one major project, CoachFire.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Other articles you might like Facebook Places is now available in Australia (0) Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services (1) My talk at BarCamp Auckland (7) Why I stepped away from Facebook development (5) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups No comments yet Click here to cancel reply.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Other articles you might like Facebook Places is now available in Australia (0) Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services (1) My talk at BarCamp Auckland (7) Why I stepped away from Facebook development (5) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups No comments yet Click here to cancel reply.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Other articles you might like Facebook Places is now available in Australia (0) Best practices on how to run a Facebook page (1) Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services (1) My talk at BarCamp Auckland (7) Why I stepped away from Facebook development (5) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups No comments yet Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You’ll ship your product and you’ll find out if you were wrong when you run out of money Or you can quickly get out of the building and test whether your hypothesis were correct and turn them into facts. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2013

This plugin does so many good things related to running a healthy site and achieving higher rankings that it’s a bit limiting to simply label it an SEO plugin. One the cool thing about WordPress is that you can sort by things like date, category and tag. SEO basics. Duplicate content. Scrapers love.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2014

You’re running a SaaS business and likely don’t have the resources or the desire to hire an individual or management company to run the operations of your business and you cannot be everywhere all of the time. We will use a fictional company named “SaaSco” Create a Process Category.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 5, 2010

My past experience with Facebook For two years, I was co-running a business that was developing in-house applications and games for Facebook. I am available for Facebook consulting and would love to help you.

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