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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. I’m typing this on my brand new spiffy MacBook Pro 2.66 Final Thought.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. However, I think if I had understood the basics of Customer Development I might have done 5-6 startups rather than 8 to get to retirement. Long vacations. It takes two.