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.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.) To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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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.

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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. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

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. In an existing or resegmented market, this may include branding and product line extensions. It may happen, but its not there yet. (As

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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. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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