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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. Most grow through sustaining innovation , offering new products that are variants around their core products. 1) They sure killed a ton of trees. Google and Android.) Google and Android.)

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10 Steps to a Memorable Website for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Put yourself on the site. They will exit quickly.

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10 Keys to Making an Entrepreneur Website Credible

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Put yourself on the site. They will exit quickly.

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Ten Tips to Make Your Startup Website Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight personal and product testimonials.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.) Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. Copyright protection lasts practically forever.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average.