David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. Organize events in your vertical. Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. For all its flaws, America is still a beacon of liberty and justice. Each year I teach hundreds of students from around the world who come to America to pursue their version of this same dream.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. For the first few years, one prominent Prodigy advertiser was America Online. Sounds like handspring.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we could give customers lower price boards without Engineering spending 12 months to design new ones.) This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

While SBIC’s were set up around the country, companies in Northern California including Bank of America, Firemans Fund and American Express (Reid Dennis of the Group ran theirs), began to set up SBIC funds to tap the emerging microwave and new semiconductor startups setting up shop south of San Francisco. Blog at WordPress.com.

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