Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types , Marketing. By then it was too late.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company. IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Order Here. Now In Print!

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