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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. The rest is worth reading as well.

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The Psychology of Logo Design: How Fonts, Colors, Shapes and Lines Influence Purchasing Decisions

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It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about 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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Why is it only alarming now? Blog at WordPress.com.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. And the rest is history.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. For established media empires, this is a scary fact. Expo SF (May.

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The Psychology of Logo Design: How Fonts, Colors, Shapes and Lines Influence Purchasing Decisions

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

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