Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

She’s in the little car on the monitor, and she’s also, if you look very carefully, in the water. We had that little car around the house for a while.) At the time *very* few people knew how to find/encode, tag, and transfer an mp3 file. That’s every marketeers excuse for putting their kids in an ad.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

I was fascinated to learn how everyday objects (cars, washing machines, structural steel, etc.) All the other stations on the assembly line had groups workers with power tools adding something to the car. His spot was right after the station where they had dropped the hoods down on the cars, and had bolted them in.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Larry and I went to Michigan at the same time and in fact Larry was briefly a member of the Solar Car Team where I was team leader (I often joke that I'm one of the few people who can say that "Larry Page worked for them."). altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

It’s not a used car transaction where buyer and seller never have contact after the sale. Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] Old, lazy guy with no ability to hussle completely outsold me.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&# at 5:20 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I have been suspicious of magazines since the Chevrolet Vega became the Motor Trend Car of the Year in 1971. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply Chui , on October 8, 2009 at 8:05 pm Said: Anyone squirming probably shouldn’t be in sales anyway, and a wise person would have realized it was good advice. A direct point is sometimes necessary to make an impact. Carly Simon was right. We are all vain characters.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? I dashed off to the dinner about an hour late, and discovered that she wasn’t there, because we were on a trip, and I had forgotten that she didn’t have a car.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

After reading it, you might not even realize that there are cars involved in Toyotas business. Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. If it can work for cars, it can work for you.

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Altgate

APRIL 25, 2010

It was filmed from the front of a trolley car going down Market street. There are a surprising amount of cars (for 1906 in the “wild west&# ). Ford didn’t start making cars until 1908. All of the cars where I could discern the driver were right-hand-drive. The street is really wide (wider than today!).

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Almost every university, region and car wash now has a business plan competition; the rules, who can participate, how large the prizes and who are the judges vary by school. These competitions started in the early 1980 ‘s at the University of Texas and have sprouted like mushrooms in the last 10 years. to compete.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

Jobs Keeping an Auto Industry as a strategic national resource Energy Independence Clean Energy I proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform. Any automaker who builds the car in the U.S. After that, other automakers would pay GM some per/car royalty.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I Bought A New Car. If you followed my tweets during late 2009 you would have seen me debating what new car to buy. With my father returning from Spain with his girlfriend and my new baby brother , I had plans to give my car to him and get another one for myself. Anyway, enough about hair. This is what I looked like then -.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Ones expensive, the others a peoples car. Tags: startupcto. See Also Elegant.ly Finding a Designer for Your Startup The Pros & Cons of A/B Testing for Startups Get Quick Impressions of Your Latest Product Iteration with Concept Feedback How to Create a Killer Explainer Video for Your Startup Make Those Web Apps Run Fast! (Or

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Actually, I’ve got a better memory of spilling car polish on a Colonel’s nicely shined shoes… Reply Andrei Marinescu , on May 13, 2009 at 7:26 am Said: Great story, Steve. Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.] And I always say, “No, never heard of it, tell me about it.”

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

As part of my research I’m going back and reading the boxes and boxes of notes and pictures from my time at Michigan, particularly my time on the solar car team. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management and tagged advice , solar car , startup , vision. I was struck by one sheet of paper.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

A few carriage makers in the early part of the 20 th century made the transition to become car companies. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] Apple was a personal computer company but 25 years after it started, it began the transformation to the iPod and iPhone.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

There were six lessons that I talked about during the talk: Defining a mission Evolving an organization Knowing your customer Working hard, but not too hard Managing risk versus reward Having a can-do attitude I used the context of my experience on the U of M solar car team almost 20 years ago to share some advice on how to address these topics.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , SuperMac | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong » 7 Responses David , on April 23, 2009 at 8:58 am Said: Excellent!

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. It will be a great opportunity to meet and connect with Boston’s finest entrepreneurs. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged Boston , startup , TheFunded. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

I remember when I was in college and team leader of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team , I was often asked something along the lines of, “what’s your strategy&# or “how did you win [a national championship]&# and my answer was always, “we work harder.&# I was fortunate to learn this at an early age.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Late September to mid-October the riot of the colors was so intense I pulled the car off to the side of the road to just stare for awhile. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] 23 to Ann Arbor when the leaves turned in the fall.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you spend 6 months of your spare time and you now own a web-based car key locator that sells 100 copies per month at $25 a pop.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 14, 2009

En fait, ce qui fait la force de l’homme-dé, ce n’est pas que sa vie se base sur le hasard, mais qu’il soit forcé à trouver des alternatives à une situation spécifique car le dé a 6 faces, jusqu’à 6 choix à définir pour le prochain lancé. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Posted by Jeff Atwood on April 13th, 2010 Filed under background 28 Comments « New 10k Feature: Inline Tagging Changes to Stack Exchange » Steve Wortham says: April 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm Well done Jeff. So are horses, but I’d rather build roads for cars. > Tags: startupcto. United States License. 21 queries.

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Altgate

JANUARY 12, 2009

  It's the equivalent of issuing a press release saying that "a pen bought at Wal-mart emits 1 kilogram of carbon" by including the emissions of the car the customer used to get to the store.    Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged carbon emissions , CO2stats , Google.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

But as I got into my car I realized that this talk was the result of my never-ending asking “how come” for 36 years. Filed under: Air Force , Secret History of Silicon Valley | Tagged: Steve Blank « Watch This Space SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type&# at Work » 14 Responses Michael F.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 14, 2009

En fait, ce qui fait la force de l’homme-dé, ce n’est pas que sa vie se base sur le hasard, mais qu’il soit forcé à trouver des alternatives à une situation spécifique car le dé a 6 faces, jusqu’à 6 choix à définir pour le prochain lancé. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I’ve gotten market timing wrong both ways (too early for electric passenger cars and arguably too late for hedge funds). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneur , management , market timing , skill. Bookmark the permalink.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Second, would you mind sharing how much you pay for rent, car insurance, health insurance and disability insurance, and if you put anything into retirement? I need roughly $2000/ month to cover 1 car payment, utilities, groceries, gas, dental, clothes, pre-school, gym, etc. at 2:25 pm er…*isn’t* #21 Rob on 01.08.09

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP » 67 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 18, 2009 at 6:08 am Said: Steve- Many thanks for your last two posts.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Do not repeat misstakes like Honda’s car “Fitta” which didn’t work out on the Swedish market. Tags advertising. Archives Select Month October 2011. Tags: naming Category : Messaging , Startups. Good luck (you’ll need it). Hey, you made it all the way to the end! You should subscribe!

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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 [.] Tags: startupcto. link] Rockstar Sid Wonderful post. You’ve really motivated me. +1

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