1999 Customer Development Founder San Francisco 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! The video below was my presentation to the group.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. For now, Id like to ask a favor.
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2011
After I left the military, I ended up in Palo Alto, a town south of San Francisco. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. I had just turned 20 years old.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 9, 2009
In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.
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