Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. In Customer Discovery we were learning as much from them as they did from us.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. Dig Deeper: How to Improve Your Hiring Practices How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up: Use the Internet Wisely No one wants to sift through endless responses from a job board listing.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Where do the ideas come from? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? would look in each of the verticals. Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes. Try Google.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

link goes to Everybody Works from 37signals’ Rework ). Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people. His idea was too vague or his vision changed too often to be fully realized.

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