View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

Stevens has held roles across verticals such as head of sales, marketing, product, and professional services at five startups over twenty years. Try to understand the context this person is operating in. Which is they’re flexible and agile. He has experience in B2B, supply chain, robotics, SaaS, and IoT spaces.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

“And, oh by the way, can you write the manuals for the operators while you’re at it.&# As I poured over the system schematics, I figured out how to put together a course to teach system theory, operations and maintenance. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Are You Single?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. The Stanford records showed that his group received more funding than any other and I assumed it was for construction of these operational systems.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

As we ran our tests, our engineering team found ways to improve our graphic boards performance for these applications and they made revisions to the boards firmware (its operating instructions.) I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.) Are his costs in control?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Companies specializing in components and systems that operated in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum sprouted faster than fruit trees in the valley orchards. This is why there are FCC restrictions on the operation of spark gap radios today. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now the Soviets had first hand knowledge of how their air defense systems would work against the nuclear armed B-52G and H models in an operational environment. All as an integral part of the Strategic Integrated Operating Plan – our war-fighting plan to destroy the Soviet Union. 23 to Ann Arbor when the leaves turned in the fall.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. In the end, they fall into three broad categories: Vertcal partitioning. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Navy and the CIA were the primary collectors of tactical and operational ELINT on the Soviet PVO Strany Air Defense system. ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? During the 1950′s, the U.S. The NSA owned COMINT collection.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Beginnings – “Vacuum Tube Valley&# Ecosystem circa 1950 From its founding in 1946 Stanford’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) did basic research into vacuum tubes that could operate at microwave frequencies. Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

None of these departments operated with any particular sense of malice – just with the certainty that the company revolved around them. 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. Which brings us to BDSM (BusDevSalesMktg) formula.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. No company survives solely based on its marketing, its technology, its operations, or any other factor. First, what is the “soft edge”?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. A healthy disrespect for the status quo coupled with passion, persistence and agility trumps everything else. Not exactly.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. A healthy disrespect for the status quo coupled with passion, persistence and agility trumps everything else. Not exactly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This can improve indications and warnings for military operations and active cyber defense.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. Cray’s first customers were the U.S. Gracias for another great read Steve! this article provided the answers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s like arguing against vertical software. Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. net implementation.

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