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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Just list the Activities needed to get a major early milestone – i.e. cash flow positive, or first million users, regulatory submission/approval, etc.). For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Are We Missing A Founder?

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Tripwire Marketing: From Bankruptcy to Over 1 Million Dollars in Profits in One Year

ConversionXL

If your new free trial users typically use three core features before upgrading to paid and you’ve got some trials that haven’t used any features … push a webinar on them explaining your core features! This automation ultimately creates a marketing machine based on a fair amount of intellectual property (i.e., Or raising money.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

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. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Customers – Who are the Users? Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Innovation – Business Model? Technology? Who are the economic buyers? Market Type – Existing/Sustaining? New/Disruptive?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I am a heavy user of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. Another VC said, “I’m a heavy user of Streak , which is a CRM that lives in your Gmail and allows you to create contact pipelines, snooze / track e-mails, save snippets, etc.