Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

(We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.). Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences. Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

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 Enterprise clients for whom Private Workplace was introduced are a minority at oDesk, but this minority brings the bigger part of the revenues.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. The same was valid for hiring neurodiverse people in general.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Being iterative is not only for software development but equally important in being a startup. Within the next two years miiCard will generate significant revenue, gain key partnerships and start to establish itself as a new standard in online identity and trust. We have to think like a lightweight boxer fighting for our life.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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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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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. I asked their chief revenue officer, how do you do attribution on this community? He's like, I can't, don't care.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Most business plans aiming for seed funding, or any sort of initial support, or even for recruitment needs, are distributing the efforts and planning the projections over the business over the course of several years. Software development? How is a business plan usually structured? Is it help with marketing? Or maybe with sales?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Consider investing in these four software categories to improve business performance and bring in more revenue. Marketing automation software. Customer relationship management software. That’s where customer relationship management (CRM) software comes in. Project management tools.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Was the sales revenue model based on actually testing the hypotheses outside the building? Greg Boutin Founder, Growthroute Ventures, [link] Reply TO REVENUE » Talking on Techie-Biz Divide at Communitech Guelph on Sept.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Results From Testing: 100% Increase In Revenue. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. by Patrick.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets.

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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. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Another great article is from Joel on Software called Duct Tape Programmer. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type. Eric Ries has a great article advocating for why it’s OK to Embrace Technical Debt.

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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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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording. Total commitment to the long term.

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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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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right. In the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). That may be attractive to some people.

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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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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. It is true however, that most of what goes on today involves software, and most of the people that write it are absolutely anonymous. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.

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