Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Time to Market – How long?

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Signs of Success One of the things you do right in a startup, is you move from one cheap and cramped building to another as you grow, with desks, cubicles and engineers piled cheek to jowl. Engineers were packed in cubicles or desks right on top of each other? Now every engineer can have their own office.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Instead, you have to identify scalable solutions that drive organic traffic—new information types or page templates. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. In other words, new features! Quora Spaces.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. Seven years later in 1971 ESL went public.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). I used to be skeptical of all this talk of “personal brand.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. You need to store two kinds of information. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. What plan says that?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. In no literature I read, I can find information about the “stop signs&# in CD. I could use just gut feeling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Best sales person, best analyst, best accountant, best engineer, whatever. And while companies might still organize themselves as a hierarchy, how we get work done now is less vertical and much more horizontal. Or because they stuck around the longest. They had the most tenure. It gets back to what we talked about.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, Fred Terman, encouraged scientists and engineers to set up companies to build these microwave tubes for the military. The information we collected would be passed on to defense contractors who would build the jammers to confuse the Soviet air defense radars. Much more was to come.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google’s USP might be in the way they connect people with information, whereas Amazon’s might be providing whatever product you need quickly, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible. What information do you need to create personas? Figuring out what your USP is can take time, but it’s a crucial piece of your brand.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. But sales came first. (By

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] I was always kind of curious.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. It’s like arguing against vertical software. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything.

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