Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. Even back then the advisor was a well-known name in Silicon Valley. I had acted like an employee, not as a founder and certainly not as the CEO of a startup.

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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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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

There are few things any established industrial economy needs more of than new businesses, but I’m here to say that ‘startups’ might not be the answer. Firstly, there are a lot of businesses calling themselves a startups , when in reality, they’re really just new, small businesses. So, what is a startup?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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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. There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. I was in a very, very different business. I was in the entertainment business. Alarm bell one should have started ringing – for me and my board.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 25, 2020

The Entrepreneur Cast is an aptly named entrepreneur podcast hosted by renowned marketing experts Jayson DeMers and Sam McRoberts. Ferriss often talks with special guests, including rockstar entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, professional athletes, and even politicians—all sharing their perspectives on success, productivity, and living well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

raised (more on that later), and the A-list names they’ve signed up for their first batch of content, they’ve certainly raised a lot of expectations and more than a few opinions. And of course there are the Silicon Valley video startups who think it’s all about the tech and ignore the storytelling.)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Looking to launch your startup, raise money, and learn about starting a company? Venture Summit Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. Airbnb and Dropbox are textbook examples of how growth hacking can transform a business from a niche offering into a household name and market leader. For you, it could be a big-name customer or investor. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. My blog was wiped out. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

In the torrent of real and fake news, what’s his competitive edge other than name recognition? As is often the case in startups, the desire to create may be outweighing the motivation to monetize, particularly if there are no hungry investors expecting venture returns. What happens to his digital property when he passes?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. It has become an integral part of startup culture.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Silicon Florist. Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors. 10 tips for mentoring startups. 10 tips for mentoring startups. Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. 3 Comments.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

An existing market is one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you about the features that matter to them. Do you know have they distribute their product? An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. is inching higher.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

and innovation policy company Startup Genome , Austin is leading the country when it comes to job creation and high-growth company density. There’s a new generation of startup companies that have been transforming Austin’s market, and it’s exciting to witness founders who are developing amazing startups every day.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2014

With the emergence of SaaS, we got a completely new way for software to be developed and distributed and now hardware is going through a similar disruption. Enthusiasm for hardware is at an all-time high : For decades, software has been the preferred path to success in Silicon Valley, while hardware has taken a back seat.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Posted on December 3, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups I’ve had my ideas “stolen” twice. I was positioning the company as the second coming of the video games businesses at the intersection of “ Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley.” Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

After several years of creating my own pitch decks and helping teach other startups how to build their own, I’ve seen what works and gets results. Based off the “Pitch then Plan” template originated by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, I believe in creating a strong pitch first and then building a business plan based on it.

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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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. . The ways of doing business across the Pacific are very different than in Silicon Valley, and the quality and breadth of VCs out here vary widely across different countries.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Many startups simply do not have the money for any kind of traditional compensation plan. Fortunately, there are other low or no-cost alternatives to get people to do work on your startup. Sometimes startups need to hire real paid employees.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. It can’t just be videos on YouTube but I’ll be that YouTube is the distribution platform. think Apple.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) Startup activities/functions So we started by listing the basic startup activities/functions we thought that might differ by vertical market.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Can you talk a little bit about the growth of the Boulder startup community and what makes it unique to other startup communities such as Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston, etc.? What are your thoughts about M&A and IPOs – and a successful exit for ad tech startups? Do you see a window developing?

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

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