Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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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. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link].

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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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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. Peter Thiel Asks Why Has Innovation Stalled | Collective Intelligence | Big Think – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? Brilliant analysis.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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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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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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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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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Gather quotes from multiple (at least 3) development companies for building a minimum feature prototype. In addition to cost quotes, also ask for time quotes so you can get a feel for how long the project should take to implement. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface.

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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. Like most startups, we changed our plan on the fly.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. Don’t ask me why, you need funding to understand. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine.

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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

As I found out to my dismay, this is a dangerous game: in many cases, you’re asking trained professionals to violate their own code of best practices, for the good of the company. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

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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?” See, experience is cheap. All it takes is time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

30 Free Fonts Best for Business Logos – [link]. 14 questions to ask your clients before and after a project – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to Write a Great Business Plan – [link].

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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. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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