Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? The popular literature has the valley springing to life in the 1960′s with the semiconductor revolution started by Shockley , Fairchild, Signetics, National and Intel, followed by the emergence of the personal computer in the mid 1970′s.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They sold their product through the computer retail channel, something I knew nothing about. Yet somehow they thought that my prior experience in high-end computer graphics might be relevant. Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. Nothing I couldn’t fix.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. Different computers used different endianness. This turned into a dispute over the “right way” and led to war – just like it did for generations of computer architects.

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MARCH 1, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)links for 2009-09-01links for 2009-08-13links for 2009-07-11Categories and Tags [.] A startup might simply not get a next round of funding and have to shut down.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Contemplative Computing. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. Subscribe.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But to get video to fit and playback on the computers of the era, they needed to compress it. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Risky Business: How Technology Can Help You Manage Risk BC/DR in Action How to Create a Business Continuity Strategy Survey Says: Hybrid Approach to Cloud Offers Best-of-Both-Worlds New Age for the Sales Process More from the Think Gig Blog » POPULAR TAGS enterprise enterprise 2.0 startupcto

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. See Five Things Meme as an example. Blog Hub - A central blog provides a place where the topic is raised and comments are collected and bloggers post.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. in Computer Science. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] New strategic direction in companies with loyal customers have different consequences then when you had no customers Acquiring new customers are a lot more expensive that converting existing ones. Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.] Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount. Tags: startupcto. then youll be off to a good start!

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

This entry was posted in Commentary , Data Science DC , Methods , Rant and tagged data science , e-commerce , machine learning , recommendation engines. ← Weekly Round-Up: Google’s Quantum Computer, Data Science vs. Statistics & BI, Business Computing, and Detecting Terrorism Networks. Bookmark the permalink.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. It provides the cloud computing services and spam filters that Google soon integrated into Gmail. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. ITA Software. Salesman DIED!’. Flag this comment.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Cloud Computing. Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities. The Social Layer. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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APRIL 22, 2009

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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