Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

And while others in our new startup came from companies like Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that had sold computers to automate scientific instrumentation and process control, the computers we were building at Ardent were targeted to different customers and markets. The problem was I didn’t have a clue.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Get back up and running.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Most startups put together a corporate mission statement because the CEO remembered seeing one at their last job, or the investors said they needed one. Most companies spend an inordinate amount of time crafting a finely honed corporate mission statement for external consumption and then do nothing internally to actually make it happen.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] I’ll stop channeling James Burke now.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Others are used by the worlds largest corporations. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteStart. White Papers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. 6 Build a company archive. Time flies by and so you may think your business is young compared to others but photos from company or corporate events from the 1980s will be ‘historic’ to some.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

For a startup Speed and Tempo need to be an integral part of your corporate DNA. Not just for the CEO or the exec staff, but for the entire company. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Between the board work and the consulting, I enjoyed my first-ever corporate “out-of-body experience.” To everyone’s delight (and my surprise,) I usually could quickly see what needed to be fixed. At about the same time, two newer companies asked me to join their boards. No longer personally involved, I became a dispassionate observer.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. All tags: Forex Brokers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The positive effect of the tidal wave of press was as a door opener for us to raise money from corporate partners. << (tags: startups) [.] Not everybody knows somebody who knows a VC… Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for July 15th - The zeitgeist daily , on July 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm Said: [.]

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Herein lies the parallel to management: Within the next five years, I expect that forward-thinking organizations will be using specialized AIs to build a complex and comprehensive corporate “knowledge graph.”. They’ll be able to connect when you save a proposal, share it with a colleague, and discuss it through corporate messaging.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

With the Applied Electronics Lab Stanford was becoming something akin to a federal or corporate lab run under university contract. It would turn on its head the relationship of universities and corporations. tags: startup history) [.] This means they could fund other non-military academic programs from this overhead.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. ITA Software. July 18, 2012 15:23:46.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. XML sitemap.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. feedstocks). Previous Entries.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 method=post. Technology stack choice for startups. on March 28th, 2011 at 1:42pm.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Contact Author Email : Simon The End Of The Road For Web Services A decade of corporate politics by the big software companies is finally over as WS-I shuts up shop and gets folded in to OASIS. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Corporate America could learn from this. For roughly one year Peter Bloom ( General Atlantic ), Chip Hazard ( Greylock ), and Allen Shaheen (CEO) exercised absolute power over ArsDigita Corporation. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.]. Author : Philip Greenspun.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. Unfortunately our corporate DNA was wedded to the fat Mac margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This requires the continuous development of competitive advantages, whether through intellectual property, new innovation, exclusive distribution partnerships, key endorsements, brand building, corporate culture, or other factors. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. That way, you can go back and review the progress you’ve made.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Common reason for failure: firms present their employer brand message in a perfect “corporate format” that is not judged to be authentic or believable by the target audience. tags: hiring. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Note, if you want to do “strategy” (which is a fine endeavor) and nothing else, you have just defined your career as one in large corporation or in a consulting firm. The tactical execution took three years. Stay out of startups. Tactics mean tenacious and relentless execution measured in years.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. What’s positive about Washington’s new Social Purpose Corporations. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. Guest Posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. For customer development, start with Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany or take a look at his recent Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

As we were plotting marketing strategy, I mentioned that the phrase “Speaking to the Big Dogs” might end up as his corporate brand. Unlike large corporations, startup meetings are not about achieving consensus for every objection raised. For a startup “No Corner Cases&# needs to be an integral part of your corporate DNA.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Buy it here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. The Modern Corporation Sloan is rightly credited with formalizing the idea of the modern U.S. One guy really did all of this.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. Implicit in these materials is the corporate and product “positioning.” Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

5 Points: You are developing software for government or major corporate clients. Being able to point at a specific development firm as “taking the responsibility&# for the quality of the software is often reassuring to many government and corporate clients. If you have more than 10 points, you can use a dev shop.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged blog , entrepreneur , startup , Twitter.  You can copy these screen names and paste them into NinjaFollow, press submit and voila! Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons learned: Corporate culture is either set by fiat, by default, or by consensus.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Lots of returns are being made these days, but the latest CalPers report shows dissapointing returns by Israeli VC firms , with an IRR of 3.5%-3.8% to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. .

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 Series Seed Financing Documents About the Series Seed Documents For the Faithful About Archives September 2010 May 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to this blogs feed SeriesSeed.com Disclaimer. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It’s not the executives are stupid it’s just that there are no incentives (or corporate DNA) for doing otherwise. CEO’s and the executive staff are watching the corporate bottom line and earnings per share. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.

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