Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Try Google. Beware, however!

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2020

Allow them to be part of the software development process. You will realize that everyone gives a different yet unique point of views if you allow your employees to be part of your business plan. Here are a few questions that you have to ask yourself to generate a potential web app idea.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Design Articles and Tutorials. Graphic Design Theory. Design Downloads. Developers. Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Business Services. Web Design. Business Tools. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. In other words, execution.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. In other words, execution.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

There’s a great quote that I love that goes “Ask not if you’re worthy of your goals, ask instead, are your goals worthy of your life?”. Ask [link] – you don’t need to be in the valley. Ask your existing users this question via a survey. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Rules of thumb can be infuriatingly unhelpful. And it’s really hard.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For business people its roulette. Do the founders of a startup have to include business people? We thought so when we started ours, and we asked several people who were said to know about this mysterious thing called"business" if they would be the president. While youre at it, you should ask what else theyve signed.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. Don’t ask me why, you need funding to understand. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 30 Free Fonts Best for Business Logos – [link]. 14 questions to ask your clients before and after a project – [link]. 15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Rather, we pay all our attention to a few key questions we ask every candidate, each aiming at uncovering a single key point: is this someone we really want to work with? But choosing.NET is a choi ce, and whenever anybody does it, I can’t help but ask “why?” Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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