thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Most of Google’s products are launched in beta in small, often buggy patches. 1 A viral launch page. They even use their own product as a launch page, because they’re still in private beta! .” Shelby.tv ‘s launch page is a great example of balancing mystery and details. In California?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. You may be in the wrong product at first. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. You may be in the wrong product at first. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, I did buy my latest startup, but the deal was done from a spare bedroom of my suburban home in Fresno, California for less than most people pay for a new car. I found an awesome DBA on oDesk and moved the 250GB databse to a new cloud server infrastructure. My Background. Step 2: The Funnel. Oy vey, were there broken features.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. But the key questions of "what to buy" or "which product does really fit my need and budget at the same time" remained unanswered.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition, we’ve recruited a host of mentors , including folks from Google and the cloud computing firm SalesForce; Stanford Law School; and veteran State Department employees now engaged in studies, research or retirement in the Bay Area. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Whether you’re pivoting in the early days because you haven’t yet found product-market fit, or you’re pivoting by reinventing yourself later on, all companies – if they’re going to become and stay successful – are going to have to pivot. If you launch your product and you’re not embarrassed by it, you’ve launched too late.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It was too loud to talk so I just watched the steel pour through the clouds of soot backlit by the blinding bright liquid metal. And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket. were born in India.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

I had the opportunity to attend my third Microsoft VC Summit in California on Thursday. This was surprising to Steve and also may be indicative of how many of the tech players have been snapping up interesting engineering teams and products before they really get to market. The post Microsoft VC Summit appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition, we’ve recruited a host of mentors , including folks from Google and the cloud computing firm SalesForce; Stanford Law School; and veteran State Department employees now engaged in studies, research or retirement in the Bay Area. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. Hewlett and David Packard, who in 1938 began developing their first product, an audio oscillator, in this garage.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Personalize your own news page. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions. Receive and manage newsletters. Todays Paper.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This doesnt work well.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. As I mentioned, some pages unintelligible without commentary but well worth a read to get to the nuggets. All have been fascinating. My take aways are below: 1. That’s 2x Facebook estimates.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. There are and we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. We all lost confidence and respect for the manager and it just became a nightmarish place.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a modern cloud based CMS system that’s licensed only to agencies. Jamie Lieberman: Contracts don’t have to be these awful documents that make you want to throw up when you have to look at them with two columns and font six, and it’s a single-spaced, and it’s 75 pages long. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

View Staff Page. The reason why many have started using the debt note, is because with no complications, an average convertible debt deal can be sealed with a five to seven page legal agreement that takes just a few hours to finish, and costs $5,000 or less. Product: The Funded. San Francisco, California. Disrupt SF.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

But beyond its products, Coinbase is an interesting company in itself. But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area. And so I think we saved.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

It doesn’t fit anyone anymore and anyone trying to sell it will end up with their friends Kodak, Blockbuster and Yellow pages. The revolution is about access and the democratization of the factors of production. Who gets to own the digital products we have purchased in good faith? It’s the next phase of D.I.Y:

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Top linked domains from Facebook pages - Gabriel Weinberg , July 10, 2010 I've been messing around with Facebook pages for an upcoming DuckDuckGo integration, and I came across some data that seemed interesting enough to share. These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Since Pooja's likely to miss some folks walking in (gosh darn clouds!), Let's move on to doing productive things. This will have direct implications on your ad targeting, ad content and ad landing pages strategies. If you click on one of those referring social pages, you get the actual pages! How lovely.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Google DevRel created a page of Google resources for startups – from the site’s description: “This site contains a selection of tools you will find useful when building, measuring, and enhancing your apps. Facebook Fan Pages. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away. Google Page Speed.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

At most, we’ll see more stories like Erin Griffith’s this morning on the social travel space when eagle-eyed reporters follow up on a funding announcement they covered months ago, only to see a vague landing page about a much-needed vacation has taken the company’s place. PlanGrid updates mean more cloud for construction.

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