Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. My previous startup, IMVU , has used this process to deploy new code as often as an average of fifty times a day.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs Successories’ New Line of Posters for Venture Capitalists → Entrepreneurs on Twitter Posted on June 7, 2009 by fnazeeri [update 11-9-2009] Twitter added a new feature for lists so I created this list here.  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (

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Jason Ball

JUNE 23, 2009

"Opera today (well, last week. I've been a little slow getting this post out) unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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JUNE 20, 2009

Below you will find an outline for the posts I’ve done on how to raise VC.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 16, 2009

I was recently asked by a friend if he should get his son the new Nintendo DSi. This would be an upgrade from the current DS and also add the photo capability. As I thought about my own son's usage of the device, I said no. Once my son got an IPod Touch for music and now games, he never looked back. While he loves the music, the real reason is because of the App Store and ability to instantly download any game for free instantaneously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. Too much of this data is non- actionable. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 22, 2009

A few people recently have inquired about how I manage my time and process lists of items that need some action. I have a simple yet elegant solution after trying project management systems, to-do lists, texting to-do lists, GTD methodology, and various other notes and features of bloated office and web based solutions. I manage everything via Email.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « If you like snipe hunts, join the boy scouts | Main. | Are Investors Being Unreasonable? » June 08, 2009. Whats Your Alternative? There's a comment here from an earlier note that asks " at what point does an innovative idea or product become worthy of an investment?

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 6, 2009

. Rajeev Motwani. I was in complete disbelief when I read the first tweet yesterday evening that Stanford Computer Science professor Rajeev Motwani had passed away. I was still incredulous and hoping that it was untrue until the sad news was verified in a email sent to the department. Even now as I write this with Rajeev’s picture on my screen, it’s still hard to believe.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2009

I have made many posts in the past about focus and doing more with less, and as I continued on this path it reminded me of Occam's Razor , the idea that the simplest explanation to any problem is the best explanation.  Of course Occam's Razor can get more complex but over the years it has been associated with the idea that "less is more."  And when I apply this philosophy to the current state of venture, I can see many applications of this theory.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. By reducing the decisions we have to make to a series of quantitative questions, we can avoid a lot of real-life messiness.

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Altgate

JUNE 9, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Entrepreneurs on Twitter If Entrepreneurs Really Told the Truth… → Successories’ New Line of Posters for Venture Capitalists Posted on June 9, 2009 by fnazeeri Not really, but I had to chuckle when I saw this.  Of course like any good joke, there is enough truth to these to be funny.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 8, 2009

Last fall, I had a unique opportunity to visit Amazon and learn more about their web services (AWS) strategy. From where I sit as a VC, it was obvious they were winning. You could see it in the number of startups that were building on their platform, and you could see it in the number of startups that were adding to their platform. [.

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Andrew Payne

JUNE 3, 2009

I’m taking a lead from Bijan and Fred and am starting to trim my Facebook friend list to “real friends”: people I know pretty well, old friends from school, etc. I’m starting with the folks I’ve never met, or only met once. (If you’re on the “cut list”, sorry!).

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Pascal's View

JUNE 25, 2009

Today’s Security Innovation Network (SINET) event drew 300 people to the standing-room-only main ballroom at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. CNN filmed the entire event, and we will keep all interested parties informed as to when the video of the three panel sessions will be available. The content was very powerful, and many eyes were opened to the interconnected nature of the crisis in America’s innovation ecosystem and the negative implications for cybersecurity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. It was an eye-opening day, and a great crowd to present to. As usual, Ill post the slides and then check in with the live commentary and feedback, and offer some additional comments.

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Altgate

JUNE 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Successories’ New Line of Posters for Venture Capitalists Exploiting a Position of Power → If Entrepreneurs Really Told the Truth… Posted on June 13, 2009 by fnazeeri You knew this was coming.  Someone VC created the entrepreneur version of the VC non-admissions slide deck from last week.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2009

Today’s New York Times has half page article on a billion dollar (US$) public Korean company named Megastudy. My partner Peter Fenton and I had the luxury of meeting with this company a few years back, and I always had hoped to find the U.S. equivalent. Truth be told, Business Week profiled the company two [.

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Andrew Payne

JUNE 1, 2009

I have a long-running discussion with a number of friends: what’s next for email? After all, email hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. Email readers have gotten slightly better over the years, with improved multimedia handling, searching, threading, calendar integration, etc. In a lot of ways, email clients have been just good enough (e.g.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 11, 2009

There is plenty of ink flowing with speculation on the future of the venture capital industry. Phil Wickham , CEO of the Kauffman Fellows Program , has a constructive perspective on this topic, which he expressed in his CEO recap in the Kauffman Fellows Program eBulletin that was published on June 2. Below, I’ve quoted his key observations from the newsletter, with which I agree: “… I [have] found two camps regarding venture capital: the majority believes venture is the answer

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. And the two teams are joined together into a company-wide feedback loop that allows the whole company to be built to learn.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 26, 2009

With the 4th of July approaching, the unofficial summer is about to begin. In almost every board meeting with portfolio companies and other entrepreneurs who are raising money, I'm hearing the same refrain: "The VCs are about to shut down for the summer". Phone calls and emails won't get returned, partners meetings won't be held, and you might as well put your head down and build your company as best you can and then show up after Labor Day rather than wasting time knocking on VC doors.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 1, 2009

Last Thursday, while attending the Wall Street Journal "D" conference, I was asked by Scott Wapner at CNBC to share my thoughts on the current IPO market. Here is the link to the video. If anyone knows how to embed these CNBC/NBC videos in WordPress.com (the SAAS web version, not the software package), let me know. I [.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← F the Banksta! Last Chance To Take CompStudy Survey → Cracking the Code on Patient Medical Record Search Posted on June 26, 2009 by fnazeeri Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside (otherwise known as i2b2) is an NIH-funded initiative managed by the Partners HealthCare System here in Boston.

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Andrew Payne

JUNE 22, 2009

I just posted a long note/essay on how to run a startup board meeting.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. Part of that includes giving a presentation for the fbFund companies on the lean startup methodology. I just got word that this is going to be happening this coming Thursday, June 25 in Palo Alto (in the former Facebook HQ).

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Pascal's View

JUNE 17, 2009

Scott Draughon, Anyck Turgeon, Robert Rodriguez, Pascal Levensohn. At 4 pm EDT on June 17 Robert Rodriguez , chairman of the Security Innovation Network , and I will discuss the recession’s implications on the continuing pace of American innovation on MyTechnologyLawyer , a live radio show. The title of the hour-long show is “ The Innovation Crisis in America.” The format for the show will be conversational, and I expect that our hosts, Anyck Turgeon of Crossroads Systems and S

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VC Adventure

JUNE 10, 2009

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Altgate

JUNE 20, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Pig in a Ham & Eggs Breakfast F the Banksta! → Designing the Obvious Posted on June 20, 2009 by fnazeeri A friend of mine recommended this book ( Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman) which I read today. It’s a book about how to make great websites (and avoid common mistakes).

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 16, 2009

We announced today a mentoring program for New York-based start-ups alongside a number of other VCs and Lowenstein Sandler. More information can be found at: www.firstgrowthvn.com. . I was excited to be a part of starting this effort to provide more support and resources for fledging young start-ups in NYC and contribute to the start-up ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

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