Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Or were they a set of spreadsheets put together over late night beers to convince an investor that this is going to be a great deal? Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.] Where exactly did the assumptions in our startup business plan come from?”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

When the panicked manager of the magazine test lab would call under a last minute deadline, we would apologize profusely as we sent the cables over – with beer, pizza, and our product manager to help them through any testing “issues”. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

One warm summer evening I got invited over to the house of a married couple from my company for a BBQ and after-dinner entertainment – drinking mass quantities of the local beer. After night fell we reconvened in their living room as we continued to go through the local beer. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Compare that to talking about Gowalla: “I just swapped this sticker of a bike for a sticker of a six pack of beer! this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. Yes, I am still a virgin”.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.] link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg says don’t take venture capital money [.] Then I bought him a beer, and asked if he wanted to join me and build a start-up on the idea I had.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you can go out and drink a beer together, its much better than to pay for each minute he/she works for you in an office, distant 10000 miles from you. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives. Tags: startupcto. Everything stands and falls with communication; not with programming. Your thoughts?

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