SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model. So XTV won in the market, but lost inside the corporation. The internal venture must do all this, and more!
Hippoland
JULY 24, 2018
more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 2) Starting a micro VC is just like starting a product company. And I enjoy working with founders immensely. It’s great.
Hippoland
JULY 24, 2018
more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 2) Starting a micro VC is just like starting a product company. And I enjoy working with founders immensely. It’s great.
Hunter Walker
MARCH 30, 2023
Humans Don’t Scale Sure you can help human workers be more productive over time but they’ll never be as efficient as software automation or customer self-service. And either way it lets too many of us get away with not having to deal with the actual implications of the products we build.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MAY 9, 2019
How can you market on a shoestring budget? How will you reach your target market? VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity. This is a problem that solopreneurs and early-on product startups run into frequently.
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