Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. What will it take for Texas to produce startups of that kind of scale and impact in technology, food, retail, entertainment, energy, education, real estate, transportation and health?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2024

12:10] With your use of technology, tasks that once took hours can be completed much faster. I was actually on a sales trip in California and my business partner called me back. John Jantsch (10:26): AI might be the most important new computer technology ever. Could you walk us through the critical elements of this system? [12:10]

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? – Dr. Pamela A.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. California, where even the rabbits are bigger than life! Imu turkey can’t be beat if you’re trying to exceed any rational amount of salt intake.) Your ranch has rattlesnakes and rabbits bigger than you?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

You’re not joining a big company. Startups are the adventure of a lifetime. But make sure it fits who you are. a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.]

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JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Technology? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Where do the ideas come from?

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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.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

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JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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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. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. For now, it won't come in through the store. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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AUGUST 13, 2009

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) I was living the dream – working 80 hour weeks and all the technology I could drink with a fire hose.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Successful pinball companies didn’t hire Hollywood talent. The mistake isn’t having a vision and taking risks.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Knowing this venture firms have come up with a canonical checklist of what they would like to see.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2020

California has been a national leader in codes that protect building occupants from seismic events, but there is a great deal of work remaining to be done. California has instituted earthquake retrofitting tax breaks. In many parts of the country, earthquake safety is a must when it comes to protecting a building and its occupants.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Fourth, as a public official in the State of California , to offer a window on how public policy on California Coastal protection gets made. Third, to share both thinking and practice as I learned how to teach entrepreneurs (the way one teaches artists and musicians.). To add your email to the free podcast alert service, click here.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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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. Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

I didn’t recognize the behavior at the time, but anyone who loves technology and gadgets has at one time or another has bought a technology toy – USB memory sticks, iPod Shuffles, umbrellas with LED lights, alarm clocks that talked, Flip Video Cameras, etc. We accidently had a product with the Novelty Effect.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Dave’s Note: William Fisher is CEO of Quicksilver Software, a software and Internet game development company in Southern California. We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. Guest Post by William Fisher. Fourth is embracing change.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. He took us through a day (and a night) of a hardcore gamer and told us about the new class of CD-ROM based game machines about to hit the market.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

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