Steve Blank

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The payoff: in this bubble, a startup can actively “engineer for an acquisition.”

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords.