SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2012

Looking at a different example; in the context of software development (or simply Internet websites), product managers will often create detailed personas of typical customers which then help inform subsequent decisions made when developing the application. Create a marketing plan to target them effective ly.

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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. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. Startups: You Should Value Software More | by Wade Foster – [link]. The Business Plan. eBay, The FBI, Shawn Hogan And Brian Dunning | Business Insider – [link]. Should EBay Share Its Users’ Data With Brands | Adweek – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link]. 50 Free UI Kits for User Interface Designers – [link]. How to Get Startup Ideas - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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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

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business – [link].

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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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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

User Interface. Developers. Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. Something else?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I wasdisgusted by the idea of doing it. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. Thats nonsense.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sea Jr , Hyliker Cheung , Safak Ozkan , Kah Hong Tay , Eli James , Dan Hvidding , Yariv Sadan , Anon User, Marc Kwiatkowski , Elliot Kolt , Jonathan Joseph , Senad Dizdar , Yoann Padioleau , Ray C. 5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ask your existing users this question via a survey. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ?

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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. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine. Bad news for you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Single User Utility In A Social System (by Fred Wilson) – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

More Than Half of Small-Business Owners Go Without Pay – [link]. Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: RentValet – [link]. Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

That’s often the argument for going after those mid-sized businesses — look how many there are! But the average employee count of the mid-sized is 119 and of the large is 3,100, so if your goal is to sell a copy of your software to everyone inside a company, you have to sell 30 mid-sized for every large.

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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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