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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. Austin, TX Nov.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Monday, September 19 - Toronto My only Canadian stop on the tour is in Toronto at the Rotman School of Management. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio. program , 7:30 p.m. Register here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team: TrackID.

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. of Management Science and Engineering. Their sponsors agreed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. I, as I mentioned, was finishing this fellowship program. If that sounds like an oxymoron, well listen up. So I'm lucky to have that. My brother is actually a surgeon.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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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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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. You can see the design of the program here. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid.

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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

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. 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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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? for Harvard Business Revie. Amazon PostRank

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