Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. If the management team is thinking they’ve made it, the new building is just symptomatic of a company heading for a crash. I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. And I remember, we set up a war room that we managed, we met twice a day. Let's go."

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions. This happens because managing the present often takes oxygen away from inventing the future. The latter requires speed and agility. Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. It was a management problem. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. And that most of the post on trade shows was describing how to prepare and manage a physical presence in a trade show booth.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. I love Google.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. Hire me to help you learn how to get better information from your customers. Is This Feature Likely to Annoy Some of My Users?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 It got bigger by inventing new test and measurement equipment and it hired people who knew how to execute that strategy. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Atlassian: How to Build a Kick-Ass Agile Team. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Peter: I’m feeling agile, I’m feeling lean, nice and spry. Jonathan: I don’t know about the agility thing, but you’re looking lean. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Kanban . How are you doing, Peter?

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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. The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products , on September 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm Said: [.]

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. So I decided to found a fencing club and in 2013 established “Academy of Fencing Masters” in Campbell, California. We don’t waste time building decks just meant to satisfy or convince someone.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. Hiring The Right Candidate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. . Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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