Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Smart companies are always looking to make their current products better – and there are many ways to do this. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

We were the only folks with a product on the credit card space. It’s giving them their footing… Making sure they understand everything from where the snacks are, to how to order lunch, to who is on the team, and what’s the product, and all of that good stuff. They don’t have to go get folded into the product.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

3] In their analysis Golder and Tellis found almost half of the market pioneers (First Movers) in their sample of 500 brands in 50 product categories failed. Product Pioneer. First to sell the product. Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come. It was making some of the teams question other parts of their business model (did they have the right customer, did they have the right product features to meet customer needs, etc.). its product or service) to its customers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. They never understood Market Type.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. It was really exciting, because they were so desperate for any kind of competitive success, and I was really, really successful.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. It was really exciting, because they were so desperate for any kind of competitive success, and I was really, really successful.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

They didn’t care about our product. … You can build the greatest product in the world (but it) doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work for the end users. You need to understand not only their needs but … any politics that would be involved that would prevent the adoption of your product. It was enlightening.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a. That year HP introduced its first computer, the HP 2116A , as an instrument controller for HP’s test and measurement products. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. It was still a year away from its IPO.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products. Prices for both private and public tech valuations exceed any rational valuation to their current worth. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

” I always had this idea that maybe I could have a hand in the production as well and… the person I fell in love with also shared that dream. I just spent a year trying to do a $2000 … offering for this bank to reach 100 people. That to me just seemed crazy. …

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