Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Sounds like a no-brainer, but I’d like to try and convince you that it’s not. All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. But all things are never equal.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch A Micropreneur’s Perspective: Selling Physical Products vs. Digital Products → Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. The goal is to create a place where it's easy to find current and highly relevant content.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 2, 2009

The annual wireless industry trade show, CTIA, had some interesting trends this year.   Putting aside the fact that Las Vegas feels like a ghost town, cab lines are uncharacteristically short, and my personal frustration that I find myself agreeing with an arch-conservative economist Arthur Laffer’s editorial in today’s WSJ on how Obama’s estate tax policy creates perverse Vegas incentives (!

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 20, 2009

Do you have a sneaking, yet unshakable, suspicion that your Web Analtyics Vendor is sometimes just trying to mess with you? Guess what? It's true! All web analytics tools have a smattering of metrics and key performance indicators that were created just because someone decided it would be cute to add / subtract / multiply / divide some numbers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 9, 2009 Built to learn Its been an exhilarating ride since the Web 2.0 Expo last week. Thank you all so much for making the event an overwhelming success (way beyond my wildest expectations) and a special thanks to all of you who have reached out to share your feedback, comments, and questions since then.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 2, 2009

No matter how many times I told my friend that he needed to get a deck together for a potential capital raise and model out some thoughts on market sizing and financials, I ran into resistance.  It was not because he didn't think it was important or that it mattered.  It was because he was understaffed and going 60 miles per hour trying to get a product released.  I can understand that pain but at the same time, if you want to raise capital from anyone, you need to have the

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Entrepreneurship for everyone | Main. | If you like snipe hunts, join the boy scouts » April 20, 2009. Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.  Greg is the well

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 13, 2009

I was recently reminded of a survey I created at SocialToo.com which is a service I use to track followersunfollowers on Twitter as well as do short surveys that live on the web. I noticed someone responded and reshared this survey thus prolonging its life further into the black hole that is the Internet. It turns out that it has gotten over 1K+ responses (last time I checked it was less than 100).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

Every once in a long while you come across a tool that just gives you goose bumps, you are instantly infatuated. The Search Based Keyword Tool (SbKT) was that for me. The data it brings together and the transparency it brings is just so. sexy. Let's see if you feel that by the time you are done with this post. I can tell you know that you'll never think of Paid Search the same way!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 14, 2009

I read a great article by James Surowiecki in the New Yorker the other day titled " Hanging Tough."  In the piece, James gives a historical perspective on companies that thrived and grew during previous recessions by increasing spending on on advertising and R&D.  While I am not advocating that companies go out and blow their cash on ads and spending on far-out development projects, I do want my readers to understand that it is possible to gain market share during difficu

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing Term Sheets For Free More on the “VC Math Problem&# → 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens Posted on April 26, 2009 by fnazeeri [UPDATE] The 2009 CompStudy survey results are now published here.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2009

I came across the following presentation and thought it was worth sharing here. Design Fast Websites. View more presentations from Nicole Sullivan. You may remember my own thoughts on the importance of websites loading fast and working quickly noting that speed is a feature. For many reasons users equate speed with being “better” and having things work quickly on your site underscores how “well” it works.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 27, 2009

Driving home today, the FastLane toll ( E-ZPass for the rest of you) flashes “Call FastLane” So I call and am prompted for entering my account number “from my statement” There’s no option to bypass, but after three failed attempts, it gets through. Then I’m put on hold for a while, and then eventually it says “we’re closed” Unbelievable.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Speaking with Steve Blank at startup2startup; webcast on May 1; other upcoming events Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that Ill be appearing on stage with Steve Blank tomorrow, April 30th, at the startup2startup event in Palo Alto. For more info, you can read the event description here. Well be attempting some new material, so should be an interesting event.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2009

Pioneers get arrows in their backs – I have experienced it firsthand from an active investor's viewpoint and written about it in the past.  Being early in a market is great but being too early can be deadly.  Just like the settlers in the westward migration, entrepreneurs who are too early will get arrows in their back.  It doesn't matter if you have a rock star CEO (Bill Coleman who founded BEA) and $100mm of funding from some great investors.  If you are t

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 15, 2009

I’m sure most of you have heard about PostSecret in which people send in postcards with your confession. I came across another website called TruuConfessions.com targeted towards women. I thought it was interesting actually in that women definitely do love their gossip. When I read the About Us section which I always do on new startup websites, the founder talked about anonymous confessions as being therapeutic.

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 22, 2009

[Below is the text of a WSGR email update.]. Always looking for ways to better serve the entrepreneurial community, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to announce the release of the WSGR Term Sheet Generator , a publicly available online tool that allows entrepreneurs and investors to generate an initial draft of a term sheet for a preferred stock financing.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 28, 2009

My Twitter feature requests (for the Web interface): First-class support for tweet replies/comments. Put the search box right on the page, upper right. Let me add “searches to track” on my page, that scroll along in little widgets. Provide a subtle visual hint (e.g. highlighting) where the tweet stack was the last time I visited. I’m sure these features exist in the various Twitter clients.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Web 2.0 Expo session followup The room was utterly packed today at Web 2.0 Expo , and the discussion afterward at the web2open was amazing. Thank you all so much for coming. I had brought a stack of fliers with me with one of the "Ideas-Code-Data" feedback loop infographics on one side, and information about the upcoming workshop on the other.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 14, 2009

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks L’homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie by Aymeric on April 14th, 2009 Mon ami François m’a conseillé de lire le livre “the dice man” de George Cockcroft.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 9, 2009

I have a friend who decided to attend a VC pitch roundtable event for the first time. He asked if I knew anything about that event and to be honest I did not know anyone who had attended such of an event. BUT, I said, look it’s $60 or so, just try it once, worse case you get to network with some VCs. So he went. Before the event, you get the bios of the VCs so that you get an idea of what each VC’s expertise is in, possibly even cater your pitch based on this.

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of The Funded , recently announced the establishment of The Funded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records. The Institute offers a four month program, called a Semester, hosted initially in the Bay Area and then expanding to locations around the world.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 27, 2009

I thought Krugman’s Op-Ed about compensation in the financial sector was interesting. The one-sentence summary: “ I question the value of these financial innovations, and why are they getting paid so much? ” Financial innovators have a huge advantage: they build their compensation right into the innovation itself. Find a place to take a percent or two (as risk-free as possible), and at scale you’ve got real money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2009

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">   mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> The Q1 2009 venture capital investment statistics. are in, and they are down, BIG.   While. nobody expected a strong showing given the environment, the magnitude of the across-the-board declines should give everyone pause. mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> (Note: Source for graphic at right, Judy Estrin, Closing the Innovation Gap). mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> In the speech that I gave at the DHS CATCH conference in Washington,D

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Jason Ball

APRIL 16, 2009

Just in case you thought innovation was dead (or maybe non-existent) in Europe, the guys over at Mashable have pulled together a short list of European startups. If you missed the The Next Web conference and are interested in monitoring the space, The Next Web is a great resource (with pretty swell twitter too). Tags: Events, Conferences and Panels Venture Capital.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 14, 2009

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks L’homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie by Aymeric on April 14th, 2009 Mon ami François m’a conseillé de lire le livre “the dice man” de George Cockcroft.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 26, 2009

Since it’s launch, I thought iPod Touch was underrated and under appreciated. The iPhone’s got the glory, and it’s easy to dismiss the Touch as a “fancy iPod” But it’s a lot of computing in a small and cheap platform: 8-32GB of flash memory, 128Mb of RAM, a great display and a 522 Mhz processor. It’s got more power than many PCs from 10-12 years ago!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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