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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram
When I started working in Silicon Valley, every company bringing a new product to market used some form of the Product Development Model. Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of … more →
Steve Blank
You Need Help: Top 10 Reasons to Hire Startup Marketing Experts
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wrote 1 year ago: If the home page of your website doesn’t tell me what you do in less than 15 words, you need help. I … more →
The Leading Cause of Startup Death - Part 1: The Product Development Diagram
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wrote 2 years ago: When I started working in Silicon Valley, every company bringing a new product to market used some f … more →
The End of Innocence
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wrote 2 years ago: I love TechCrunch. If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s n … more →
Touching the Hot Stove - Experiential versus Theoretical Learning
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wrote 2 years ago: I’m a slow learner. It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success … more →
Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product
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wrote 2 years ago: At Rocket Science while my partner Peter was managing the tools and game development, I was managing … more →
Rocket Science 3: Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley
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wrote 2 years ago: What do you mean you don’t want to hear about features? I was now a CEO of Rocket Science, and … more →
Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores
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wrote 2 years ago: When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself. Twenty … more →
Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
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wrote 2 years ago: Raising our kids and being an entrepreneur wasn’t easy. Being in a startup and having a successful r … more →
Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
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wrote 2 years ago: Watching my oldest daughter graduate high school this week made me think about what it was like rais … more →
Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.
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wrote 2 years ago: When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them … more →
Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve screwed up a lot of startups on faith. One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you st … more →
Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups
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wrote 2 years ago: This post makes sense when you read the previous two vertical markets posts first. Reducing Risk – S … more →
Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk
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wrote 3 years ago: This post makes sense when you read the previous vertical markets post first. Customer/Market Risk V … more →
Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same
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wrote 3 years ago: In the past entrepreneurship was viewed (and taught) as a single process, with a single approach to … more →
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters - Part 2
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wrote 3 years ago: I wrote this “Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters” memo as a board member after I saw o … more →
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters - Part 1
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wrote 3 years ago: Ignore This Post If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather … more →
Founders and dysfunctional families
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wrote 3 years ago: Startup CEO Traits I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drift … more →
The Curse of a New Building
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wrote 3 years ago: At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do … more →
Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions
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wrote 3 years ago: I love business plan competitions. I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competiti … more →
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