Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. After being in business for all of seven months, one of our first deals at Epiphany was with a software company called Visio , (now owned by Microsoft.) Some of them would have limited our ability to sell to other software companies.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Out-of-sync teams: The communication gap between co-workers can throw the entire team off-track. In fact, extended hours due to lack of discipline can play havoc with their personal lives.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. By day he works on web and social media for HP. Take a look – and take your time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. The other thing to say about that is, and Jason may disagree and Pat may disagree, but I don’t think software today has to be morally neutral. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T. ’ Why?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lets start with a distinction between shipping new software to the customer, and changing the customers experience. The idea is that often you can change the customers experience without shipping them new software at all. Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Tip: Many agencies don’t have the bandwidth nor resources to do this for each and every client, but will outsource these types of services to experts in the field. 3) Co-create content with other authorities in your niche market. You should always produce content you know your audience will consume and come back to for more!

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. via Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob [.] #10

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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