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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. 2 weeks in they had outsourced my job, which lead to an awkward conversation. Manager: “Sorry man we outsourced your job, I guess this was already in the works before I hired you.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

The video below was my presentation to the group. The slides below go with the video. Just click through them as you watch the video. Reply Joe , on November 23, 2009 at 4:39 pm Said: This is an awesome post and I really appreciate the availability of the slides as well as the video. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.