Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). Generate end-user demand (to match our revenue goals). Drive that demand into our sales channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

” If you’re a writer, you might say, “I write white papers,” or I’m this kind of writer. That’s such a nice thing to be in that the US federal government tries to keep people out of that place because it’s so nice. They wouldn’t have to spend money hiring me. Credibility.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

And I had hired and fired two people who didn’t work out. This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. I’m 0 for 2.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. at 11:09 AM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. BA : Yeah, well, the first time I saw the Bitcoin white paper, I saw it on Hacker News, which is a website that YCombinator runs.

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