Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

More About Lloyed Lobo: Follow Lloyed on LinkedIn Listen to the Traction Podcast Lloyed’s website Pre-order From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth Get Your Free AI Prompts To Build A Marketing Strategy: Download now Like this show? So welcome to the show, Lloyed.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

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. Austin is good at software, Dallas is good at retail, Houston is good at oil & gas, and San Antonio is good at cybersecurity (just for a few examples).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? It records the electrical activity of the heart and shows doctors the rhythm of heartbeats, the size and position of the chambers of the heart, and any damage to the heart’s muscle.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Our experience shows—and the data supports—that teaching a founding CEO how to maximize the product cycle is easier than teaching the professional CEO how to find the new product cycle. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? I am not a developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Not even if its generating revenue. But they have no clue about how to design, make, distribute and service products that enable them to have experience, that's the company's competence. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. Heres hoping Steve will share those techniques with us someday.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The announcement shows how many documents, how many words, and a price. This shows they are used to working this way through this site. For #3, Id add one thing: Create a flow chart of all the site pages and show how they connect (if/then paths), even if its not perfect, the flow chart really helps programmers understand what you want.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. It would make a lot of sense for someone else to just come along and build our hardware and sell our software without paying for 15 people doing development and engineering, but nobody did that. Just stop. -- jorangreef 215 days ago | link.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Other than a second-rate musician, “Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial core competency in router design and development. At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Hall Of Shame Names – The Oneder Of It All.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Another great article is from Joel on Software called Duct Tape Programmer. Show me a site that has great visual appeal, and I’ll guarantee that they don’t A/B test. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. There went my Las Vegas light show.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. " No "rockstar" developer will even entertain your idea unless you can at least show them some proof that your idea has merit. If they don't ask for any proof, the are certainly not a rockstar developer.

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