Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Most people start their first company while they still have a day job. I’ve been on both sides of the table: I’ve done a startup while working and I’ve employed people who either were or are very capable of having their own startup on the side. This story originally appeared on his blog.) This clause is fair.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But finding such people is more than a full time job. The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. But what they do is very, very rarely startups.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Seth Levine, a successful VC with the Foundry Group , wrote a great blog entry about all the hype going on currently in the startup world. Currently Los Angeles is in what could be a startup renaissance or an apocalypse, dependent on how long the hype goes on. Worth the read. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?)

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. The product manager can do his or her job. These stories will hopefully show you several examples of product managers doing their job and doing it well. In 1993, Word 6.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Women Small Business Owners – America’s New job Creators [infographic] – [link]. The One “Process” Every Startup Should Have - [link].

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” ” Ren and I started brainstorming about the potential for commercializing his technology in 2005. My job was to keep coaxing him on and to keep reminding him that it is doable.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. Sounds like a job for a CTO, right?

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! More Stories in Apps & Software. Get people who know about IP address, HTML and its impact on ranking, QR codes, NFC and other 21st Century marketing tools. Latest Startups News. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! New Startup Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals – [link]. Apple Post-Jobs May Lack Charisma, Maintain Success: Commentary – [link]. – [link].

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. This is a long episode (1:20), but it’s a conversation that will resonate with a lot of early-stage startup founders. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. Snap knows it’s under resourced, and materially behind its competition in raw technological development. It’s very clear that Spectacles today are just focused on the latter 2 jobs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! They share stories with world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. Pamela Slim (03:31): I think I'll say the title did its job bright, cause it does make you go wait a minute, but that doesn't make any sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. It really reminded me of the early days of software and hardware and this hacker culture.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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