Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. I offered to introduce him to the firm whose Entrepreneur-in-Residence offer I had just accepted.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) The Focus on a Finished Product Rather than a Minimum Feature Set The passion of an entrepreneur coupled with the product development diagram drives you to believe that all you need to do is build the product (in all its full-featured glory) and customers will come.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled. RSS Feed 573,411+ Subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. Twitter – it is like email, SMS, or RSS. — entrepreneurship entrepreneurs intellect quora social networks startups technology' It ain’t rocket science.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. I hate business plan competitions. Local venture investors and/or companies offer cash prizes for the winners. I now think that was a mistake. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about. Write it down and keep it in a tradeshow handbook for those who will follow.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. Silicon Florist. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. by Rick Turoczy. 3 Comments. Think of the obvious.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. You can try out any number of RSS feeds to stay in touch with the most influential, timely influencers on the entrepreneurial stage. Duct Tape Marketing.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. It’s quite an eye opener.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I responded to their RFP by proposing that Ardent build the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center a distributed supercomputing environment with hundreds of Ardent personal supercomputers rather than a monolithic Cray supercomputer. A entrepreneur’s idea of closure. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back. What a deal.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 28, 2005

Since becoming an avid blogger and reader, it is clear to me that embedded ads in RSS feeds will be a key way for content owners to monetize their assets. First, the fact of consuming RSS feeds will typically reduce traffic at many publishers’ websites giving them less opportunity to monetize their assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. This is incisive and powerful and I hope many entrepreneurs or would-be entrepreneurs “get&# this eloquently stated point. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? We launched version 2.5

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Lessons Learned “Selling&# My Micro-ISV “Within a week of my ‘for sale’ post I received 20 email inquiries, sent out nearly that many NDAs, distributed 13 sales packets, and spent about 10 hours answering questions via email.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know have they distribute their product? An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Great post, very educational.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just my students) is that Customer Development means getting out of the building and sharing what you are working on. (I’m sure when he got back to the office he was handing out a personalized knife to the executive on his staff who had borrowed my slide.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I was now a CEO of Rocket Science, and having a great time building the company (more about that in future posts.) Don’t confuse your passion for your tools with why your customers will buy your product. You’re very right on that.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. To my surprise, VC?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. But even with a partially filled-in chart, you can see what used to be disconnected information is now sorted by vertical market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

And I think I wanna try being an entrepreneur cuz as a kid, I had a few interactions as an entrepreneur and I was like, I think I wanna go back to that. They said that they've got, you know, a hundred employees and they're distributed now and this just, they do a podcast that is purely an internal vehicle communication vehicle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2014

Whether it’s customer service, bookkeeping, sales, fulfillment and distribution, or any of the other necessary tasks required to maintain a business, time is of the essence. You select your RSS feed and assign it to each account that you want to share your new posts on. created an application that makes it much easier.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Back then, podcasting was new, iTunes had just burst onto the scene and an army of podcasters embraced this new RSS driven way to syndicate content. Blubrry PowerPress - This WordPress plugin creates a player for my blog and handles the RSS technical stuff including passing the podcast to iTunes. My personal listening list.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Go to meetings of any campus entrepreneurs groups. None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. Entrepreneur (167). infoChachkie. Parenting (4).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Advisor Garage – A social network that connects entrepreneurs who need advice with advisors on just about any business-related topic. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Join the 2.3

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. Subscribe via RSS. female founders.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. Podcast distribution. To support distribution, the show title should be unique, memorable, relevant, and, of course, keyword optimized. Podcast hosting sites allow you to upload podcasts directly, including descriptions and thumbnails.

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