Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.

Silicon Valley 165

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review RSS 165

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. I was going to find out why this wasn’t a good idea.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Writer 2.0 – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Writer 2.0 – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. His real job – the action – was to get the software moved onto our machine.

Silicon Valley 331

Silicon Valley Software Review RSS Technical Review 331

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Nuclear Weapons Laboratories which used supercompurters to run their hydrodynamics codes to simulate what went on in the first microseconds in a nuclear weapon and the National Security Agency (with Cray putting in a special population count hardware instruction) used to facilitate decryption of codes. Isn’t theory fun?

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. For UX agencies, one example is offering technical or UX writing services. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. Respond to shifting market priorities.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. link] [link] I guess you could call it the “Continuous Wave Radio&# technology period.

Silicon Valley 297

Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 297

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?

Silicon Valley 253

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 253

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 127

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. And an outstanding rebuttal to Roger Ebert’s criticism of 3D technology – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Moms at tech start-ups say they can have it all – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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. So for us, that's really the thing is to see indigenous people running their own businesses and really in positions of leadership. Like this show?

Customer 100

Customer .Net Arizona Networking 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In Seoul, retailer uses 3D QR codes and the sun to deliver discounts only during its quiet times - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

The fact that your client, leadership, or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it’s true. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. reviews, trust).

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

The fact that your client, leadership or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it is true. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. exactly what software tools they are using.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 291

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

And since the card was useless without any application software, what other software products did they use on it? What reviews did they trust? They said the product reviews in these publications were by far the biggest influence on which card to buy. (This made our PR problem manageable and focused. Which ones?

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 210

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Thanks Steve!

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2019

I call it building your non negotiables, your code of conduct, but we can talk about that in a minute. And so they deliberately … And this is in the last chapter called Take the High Road where to your point, it’s all about leadership bravery, I call it. When I meet people, I trust them right away.

Customer 52

Customer Alaska Tennessee Cost 52

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9)

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48