Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. We were within three months of formally announcing our company and products at a major industry trade show.

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techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

fixed above the page and still position correctly -->. What it means, in the simplest of terms, is that all the pages of the site will now automatically resize to fit all computer and mobile-device screens. Send your thoughts and reactions directly to top editors by clicking the Feedback button on our home page. Skip to Content.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. partners to help bring his product to market. You can select the business you like best of those discussed today through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time. California can be appealing to California-based investors (particularly fast-growth tech companies) despite high income and corporate taxes, and franchise fees for all businesses regardless of size.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. She had to lay off most of her workforce and had to basically put her entire production on hold. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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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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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays. Better search.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford? I totally agree. For Meebo 1.3%

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

With the memories of WWII only five years old, and the Cold War now a shooting war in Korea, there was very little discussion (or dissension) about turning a university into a center for the production of military intelligence and electronic warfare systems. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Did you create a Facebook page for the show? Are you twittering your appearance at the show?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be There is, indeed, a competition between angel investors and venture capital firms, which can only be an advantage for entrepreneurs who are thus stimulated to choose wisely their future business partners. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman. Check out the highly entertaining front page video.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. Some of them derived from oil, some of them derived from other natural products. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

There is, indeed, a competition between angel investors and venture capital firms, which can only be an advantage for entrepreneurs who are thus stimulated to choose wisely their future business partners. Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

By Mark Divine with Allyson Edelhertz Machate, authors of “ The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed “ In this exercise, you will work through a mock mission plan related to either your business or personal life – for example, to launch a new product, service, or venue, or to lose weight.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

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. We are optimistic though, as bearish markets tend to increase the need for more workforce productivity.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. Even if there aren’t any products out there doing exactly what you do, it doesn’t mean that you have no competition.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

SCORE.org A resource partner with the U.S. COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Small Business Administration, SCORE gives free advice to entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2012

Located in the Bay Area of Northern California (though only a select few know the exact location), Google X Labs has a purported list of 100 projects in development that delve into the realm of science fiction, the products of which may just change how we interact with our technology and each other in the coming decades.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany , tracked me down at California Coastal Commission hearing in Santa Barbara, and had me meeting with him in a stairwell during a break in my day-long meeting. It made more sense than our 60 page business plan predicated on a B-school class and a supernatural ability to predict the future.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Have a loud product demo; give away pieces of candy; hire a masseuse and offer free back rubs. Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. But it has to come with one of your people to talk about the product.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Based on this work, we have identified certain areas in the incubator industry where we can add value by acting as a partner and filling in some of the gaps that exist in the eco-system. We discussed a strategy to get this validated ASAP before raising any further capital, or investing any more money in building the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. high or high school with a PC in California in the early 80’s. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? What about strategy?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. landing pages, etc. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. A post that I like is: " Tech Companies: Can You Explain Your Product to a Six-Year-Old? Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. But DO NOT crocodile into your solution page. They are seldom productive. You have target customers, you have competitors and you have a product to sell. This is part of my series on Startup Advice.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Referral marketing is “a method of promoting products or services to new customers through referrals, usually word of mouth” So, instead of working with marketers, you’re working with existing customers. Kim and Jim are now spending their days driving targeted traffic to your beach vacation landing page.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If this, or something like it sounds like your dream lifestyle, you’re on the right page! Step 5: Marketing your farm and products. Although Cindy had never farmed before, she had been an active gardener, growing the herbs she needed for her skin care product business, in her own large garden. Step 1: Identify your niche.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2022

3:44] Are there were differences between the world product and the American product? [4:53] I wanna point out how to make money with your current products, man, such an important lesson about leveraging what you've already done to get more from it. I swindled a business partner and I feel guilty about that.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Solution : How does your box and the products it contains solve that problem? Online shopping for your product is difficult to some extent (hard to find, can’t return it, often doesn’t fit, so on). A majority of men with curly hair probably have a product they always use, or they don’t use a product at all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

She teaches a Digital Marketing course (virtually) at the University of California in Irvine. 22:11] How could I use social to build more brand affinity so that when people walk into retailers they ask and look for my product? [23:41]how We've been in business who follow are followers of, of the page and engage with us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. Eric Ries : Well, we'll be sure to include a link to the donations page in our show notes in the hopes that some listeners will be able to help.

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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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