Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Board Effect

APRIL 5, 2019

The strength of the administration, the financial health of the institution and good board governance — all have a strong bearing on student success. The volatility of today’s economy and the current societal environment require due diligence in governance on the part of college and university boards.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. It’s what my textbook on Customer Development describes. I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. on May 26, 2009 at 6:18 am Said: [.] You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

There Ought to be a Law Nowadays there are laws that allow you to back out of a time-share condo contract, or used car purchase after seven days because even the government believes there are times when grown adults lose their minds and stand up and yell “Yes I believe, sign me up!” I love all these war stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the ribosome. billion in trade last year increased from $922 million in 2009. Citigroup intends to open a technology research and development center in Israel in December to support its global activities. Intel, the world’s No.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 7, 2012

Government and tech startups don’t have anything in common. By their very nature, government organizations are typically huge, slow-moving bureaucracies built to deliver continuity. Finding ways to bridge the divide promises to bring new innovation and efficiency to government and help get more people involved in the political process.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

HW: Having been at MySpace 2006-2009 do you have empathy today for what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are trying to solve (safety and abuse, manipulation)? Unfortunately, there come times when an industry is being irresponsible and facilitating such harm that government has to step in and act. That’s the best scenario.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. to help him develop the idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. Less is more.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. billion online in the first quarter of this year. The Big Players.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. It seemed that back then the US government recognized the importance of attracting the best and brightest from around the world. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 63 Israeli companies were acquired or merged in 2009, a 28 percent drop from an average of 87 companies in the previous three years. The top ten deals in 2009 yielded 80 percent ($2.02 billion in 2008 and $8.8

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Or something. ”Yes, but… ” Those who have spent much time in the developing world are likely accustomed to dealing with this sort of frustration on a daily basis. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2020

The two companies I served during my tenure as a CEO faced high-stakes external crises; one company with the dot-com crash and 9/11, the other during the 2008/2009 Great Recession. Cohesive teams comprise individuals who are united in purpose, possess common values and develop shared meaning.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 10, 2017

Back in 2009, Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never developed a strong use case besides storing value. Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never developed a strong use case besides storing value. What happened?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2010

Within the next 120 days, the administration will release a web-based platform to manage the government’s crowdsourcing efforts. Earlier in 2009, Representative Mike Honda (15th district of California – which includes Silicon Valley), ran a project on crowdSPRING for the redesign of his website.

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 31, 2010

II That developing a new legislative protocol for the dissemination of cybersecurity threat information to the public is going to be very difficult and is likely to lead to unintended consequences. I recently chaired a panel at the Stevens Institute of Technology cybersecurity conference in Washington D.C.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Size of the online gambling market from 2009 to 2020 (in billion U.S. Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. This next level will also require that you work with government regulators. The government will not allow you to conduct your business without a license. Source: Statista.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. Thanks a lot for it.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Give to the Max” days.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 14, 2009

Something you can appreciate if you’ve read my class text on Customer Development.) Those of you with a reader still have it.) (Those of you with a reader still have it.) It was a rough draft you’ll see again when I can finish complete sentences. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. I think the real long pole in the tent is in developing new operational concepts, in light of a clear-eyed assessment of what we’re going to face from either China or for example Russia’s A2/AD network in Europe. Not interested in that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government. initiatives across the Federal Government; Don established many of the core principles for how the Intelligence Community uses Intellipedia.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But Jen has been one of the leaders over this past decade of finding ways to marry technology and government. Donate , come work at Code for America , work in government , or join your local Code for America Brigade ! Back then, very few people in the consumer technology world thought about working for or in government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. I think that's actually an incredible positive development. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I had been in the NY tech scene since 2008/2009 and was just, generally, trying to be helpful to founders, investors, etc. We ended up developing Upstream from that. Alex Taub: Yep, I think I did a reference call for them with you guys. I was working at Dwolla at the time but about to leave and start SocialRank.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. International and non-Valley startup communities are developing at a rapid pace.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 13, 2015

The illustrious Sir Ken Robinson is returning as a keynoter (he has a long history with the conference and the state of Oklahoma) and there is a terific line up of speakers from Disney, Lego, Faber-Castell, and other notables from government and education. and — What do the Flaming Lips have to do with Economic Development?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Could this self perception (in combination with higher screen resolutions making serifs more viable),be why 50 major websites seemed to have changed their perspective on serifs between early 2009 and late 2013? Nearly the same percentage as sites using sans in 2009. Don’t let the similarity in graphs confuse you. image source.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

These pitfalls are not limited to product development. Recall that after nearly a year of operation, the Facebook growth team ceased all experimentation and for a full month, January of 2009, invested in improving their analytics tracking, which allowed them to perform more refined and powerful data analyses. Image Source.

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