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To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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APRIL 10, 2009
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5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 11, 2010
This post serves as a hyperlinked table of contents, so either bookmark this page or subscribe by email or RSS to get notified when new articles get posted. If your marketing strategy is to run A/B tests and build RSS subscribers, you've already lost. Here's the list: Invalid competitive advantages (coming soon.).
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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259 Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?
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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. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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AUGUST 4, 2011
Do you need to provide RSS? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Notifications - what notifications are needed in the system? Dismissable? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are these blasts manually created? Are there complex rules for when emails go out?
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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder
SoCal CTO
AUGUST 4, 2011
Do you need to provide RSS? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Notifications - what notifications are needed in the system? Dismissable? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are these blasts manually created? Are there complex rules for when emails go out?
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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 15, 2010
I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I think they’re missing something.
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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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JULY 20, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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APRIL 9, 2009
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JUNE 11, 2009
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MARCH 19, 2009
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.
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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 13, 2009
It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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Here’s What President of textPlus @Nanea Reeves Has to Say on Leadership, Mgmt, Women in Tech
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2014
The episode in it’s entirety is available here – and as always you can listen to it on SoundCloud , iTunes , or any RSS player of your choice. I would of course welcome your feedback in the comments on the blog to add to this conversation or to disagree with any conclusions we may have had. Leadership Startup Lessons'
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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 15, 2014
Keep that RSS reader enabled. How we think about the many facets of marketing: branding, positioning, events, advertising, and special projects we haven’t announced yet. All that said, I do have more to share. I have a backlog of posts in various states of completion. Which brings up the final point. Just not every week.
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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.
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Special Edition: Smart Bear Live!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2011
But we did it, it was a blast, and you can listen to it in my podcast ( iTunes , or enclosed in the usual RSS feed , or raw mp3 ). For the last year I envisioned it as a weekly call-in radio show, and in this incarnation it wasn’t call-in, it wasn’t on the radio, and it’s not weekly. Why listen?
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226 What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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167 7 Basic Tips For App Development
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 4, 2017
Besides sharing your hours of business, wine selections, and menu, your app could also load your existing RSS feed to display fresh specials every day. For instance, if you’re a restaurant owner and you’re putting together an app for customers, go beyond the standard must-haves that users expect. Why Simplicity Matters.
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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2011
- OnlyOnce , September 6, 2010 Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation - Startup Professionals Musings , May 19, 2010 We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 Don’t Let Your Ignorance Stop You - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by (..)
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Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
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How To Be More Persuasive On Your Website
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
Placing your social and RSS numbers in prominent places. A few positive customer testimonials placed close to the Buy button often work well. Placing the logos of important business clients next to a sign-up page is a good way to encourage website visitors to go ahead with confidence, too.
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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 22, 2011
I can lecture you about how blogging success is about content and time rather than looks and plugins , but I still wrote my own plugin to manage exactly how the “retweet&# link behaves in the RSS feed. That attitude is something I see in most successful entrepreneurs.
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How Perfect Pricing got me 1500 Sales in 2 Days
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 27, 2012
Isn’t fame and glory and RSS subscribers enough? So when I recently wrote an eBook to show people how to design user interfaces , I knew how important setting the right price would be. Why charge at all ? Besides the obvious answer (to make money), I believe the Internet is already overrun with free stuff.
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware]. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?
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Fred Schebesta: Finder.com Co-Founder With $193 Million Fortune Reveals How A Niche Credit Card Review Site Turned Into One Of Australia’s Biggest Tech Success Stories
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
[ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] In late 2019 on my LinkedIn news feed, an article popped up with the following title – Finder co-founder Fred Schebesta has debuted on the Young Rich List with a $193 million fortune I immediately thought — I know this guy! […].
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RSS: The Persistent Protocol
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 15, 2018
We made some of the early investments in companies built around RSS, including FeedBurner and NewsGator. RSS is a brilliant, and very durable, protocol. The original creators of the protocol had great vision, but the history and evolution of RSS were filled with challenges and controversy. SMTP has been very good to me.
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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
However, it is possible to set up an RSS feed of any search by copying the URL of your search results, adding “&format=rss” (no quotes) to the end and plugging it into your favorite RSS reader. If you aren’t big on RSS, use a service like IFTTT to push RSS updates directly to your inbox.
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111 Natalie MacNeil: Emmy Award Winning Founder Of “She Takes On The World” Blogs Her Way To Half A Million Dollars A Year
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 16, 2014
Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] * Apologies about the slight distortion during parts of this interview. Relevant Links She Takes On The World Conquer Club Talk to you soon, Yaro Starak Entrepreneurs-Journey.com [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Text Version [spoiler]??
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111 Michelle Dale: Mother Of Three Takes Her Kids Around Europe On A Ten Year “Laptop Lifestyle” Trip Thanks To Her $30,000+ A Month Online Business
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 30, 2014
Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ]. Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Michelle has been traveling all around Europe since 2005. Let me introduce you to Michelle Dale. She is the founder of Virtual Miss Friday , a virtual assistant service and training company.
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Inside Mattermark’s Ubiquitous Newsletter: Principles and Process
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
RSS feeds for VC blogs , subscribed to via Feedly. RSS feeds for founder blogs, subscribed to via Feedly. Medium – Venture Capital . Featured posts in CrunchBase Daily , StrictlyVC , and Dan Primack’s Term Sheet . Sites to Discover Content from Founders: . Nuzzel.com. Medium – Entrepreneurship , Startups.
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120 Quickly Unpacking Spotify’s Acquisition Of Gimlet Media
Haystack
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media. I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. Again, I hope to be proven wrong — I could’ve invested in Gimlet and today I wish I had. I’d love to hear more opinions on this.
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134 Want to Know How to Join One of the Country’s Most Successful VC Fund?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 24, 2015
As always, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, Soundcloud and podcast RSS feed. It’s always such a pleasure to spend time with you, learn from your perspectives and debate our topics of the day. And finally for powerusers, you might have noticed I release clips from each interview on Vidme (recently crossed 100k plays!).
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150 Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. Who Makes the Money on an Inevitable Shoe Dropping? Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S.
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Clay Collins Founder Of Startup Leadbrite, Pioneer Of The Prelaunch, And Serial Entrepreneur Shares His Story
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2013
Subscribe to the raw RSS feed (Podcasts Only). We end the interview with a review of how all of these experiences shaped Clay and lead him to what he does today as the founder of a software startup that is driven by what he learned as an internet marketer. Download the Text Transcript in PDF (Coming Soon). Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes.
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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons.&# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow [.].
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