1998 Customer Development Design Silicon Valley 
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. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. By then it was too late.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
Being designated as a Torch Program startup gave banks comfort to provide loans to these ventures for technology commercialization. But it wasn’t until 1998 that corporate-backed VC firms could be established, and that started a wave of VC funds backed by government, corporate and foreign capital. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
Being designated as a Torch Program startup gave banks comfort to provide loans to these ventures for technology commercialization. But it wasn’t until 1998 that corporate-backed VC firms could be established, and that started a wave of VC funds backed by government, corporate and foreign capital. Like the U.S. Lessons Learned.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types.
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