Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports.

North Carolina 131

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. And social capital is kind of an unseen currency that we tend to think of as reputation. And then that reputation is something we can harness to make decisions or to influence other people. This is John Jantsch. And my guest today is Jono Bacon.

Community 54

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Early employees are paid a salary from day 1, don't have to have the reputation/connections to raise money, take on much less risk, and often have much more information about the company (team so far, financials, product traction/progress) when they decide to join than the founders do when they found the company.

Equity 40

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. This happens a lot. Who knows.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84