Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

All tags: Forex Brokers. Login or register to tag items. Book Reviews (16) Changing the Culture in Boston (28) Founder Fridays (28) Event Reports (7) GreenhornTV (65) Money Mondays (39) Guest Expert Tuesdays (44) Wild Card Wednesdays (81) Thinking Thursdays (38) Favorite Fridays (1). Monthly archive. in Forex Brokers.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. Other things that kill companies (which are kind of like a marriage) Not the right chemistry Bad culture or losing company culture Employees need some sense of allegiance. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this!

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I don't advocate a SOX approach, that has been proven to kill off innovation, but as an outsider looking in it seems as though the distance between Sandhill Road and Vegas is getting shorter every day. davidhaber Index analogy isn't exactly apt either. startupcto

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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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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. What is customer development?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

At ESL Military Intelligence Was No Longer an Oxymoron Perry not only took his best managers, but he also took his customers, and his desire to build a company culture that was the antithesis of working for a phone company. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Those winners are StoryTree , Culture Kitchen , and Volta. Also notable: 20% of the startups participating this time around have female founders (LaunchBit, Snapette, Vayable, Cardinal Blue and Culture Kitchen) and three of those teams (LaunchBit, Snapette, and Culture Kitchen) are 100% female. The full list is below).

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. John, Steps #12 -#14 cover the interview process which assumes that those doing the interviewing are well trained and aligned with the success factors related to the job, the reporting relationships, the customer demands, the work environment, and the company culture.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.)

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? He’s still with us today and not only instituted a strong culture of good development, but has been a foundation to build a strong team on. Tags: startupcto.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A Blog About Making Culture. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Anil Dash. About Anil Dash. Most Popular. More Info » One More Time: No NDAs. May 7, 2010. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. legal , nda , startups , trust. Embed: 13 Comments. Why, Hello!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures. Reply Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Why The iPad Will Be A Success, In the Long Term , on February 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm Said: [.] What is it that your business is bringing to the market?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] Each vertical is, in fact, a functional culture. Recognizing the vertical as a culture implies some rootedness when you try to move out of that vertical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

When they discovered that the sky didn’t fall and they still had their jobs, our corporate culture took one more step toward a more effective and cohesive company. But where does this corporate culture come from? A lot of credit must be given to the CEO and the culture of the company. Ownership and Teamwork not turf.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Culture matters. As a private company you can decide that winning at all costs is your culture. You can decide that coming in first at all costs is your culture. When your employees see that it’s “an anything goes” culture you’ll find unethical behavior occurring that you will regret. And we decided not to.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

▼ 2009 (17) ▼ November (1) Lean startup tools for Rails apps ► October (1) Walk by faith, not by sight ► September (1) Steal my ideas for Baltimore's tech culture! Tags: startupcto. Subscribe Now Subscribe to the blog Profiles Twitter Github LinkedIn YouTube Stumbleupon del.icio.us

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Do you have a “culture” of customer experience that is commonly known in our organization? The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog (tags: startup entrepen strategy management tips) Share and Enjoy: [.] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog (tags: entrepreneurship) [.]

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

It doesn’t tell you what that tag really means, and, it doesn’t drive users to an action. This is especially true because Twitter does a rather poor job of archiving and making tweets searchable. I’m using Tweet Nest to archive my tweets ). Have a quirky office culture? Be Real : People like to engage with people.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

It has become an integral part of startup culture. The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product Development Diagram « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Ann Arbor to Alpena – 180 Miles and a Major Culture Gap While I never got tired of looking at the planes, one my fondest memories of this base was driving down U.S. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] I was always kind of curious.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

How did this culture of “make it happen&# emerge, etc. But no one was writing about where the entrepreneurial culture had come from. What created this microwave startup culture in the 1950′s? How did Silicon Valley start? And the answer came back much as it did in my past jobs; Who cares, get back to work.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It can be a cultural shift for a company to adopt virtualization. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. In order to achieve maximum uptime for these key applications, Gateway virtualized them using VMware Infrastructure 3 running on Intel-powered hardware. Intel VMware vSphere vCloud Xeon Virtualization Cloud Computing

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I also wrote about how company culture and incentives need to be different. It wasn’t country culture. One of the least acknowledged strengths of technology startup culture is the ability for a small team to come together and brainstorm ideas, design and implementation. Tags: startupcto. It was collaboration.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. An upgraded new building is a premature transition away from a startup culture. It’s a tipping point to a big company culture. But there were three more insidious problems.

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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. sigh* It’s a sad thing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The conversation happened to hit on politics and culture and my friend’s’ wife innocently offered up she had lived in a commune in California. Well that created a bit of alcohol-fueled cross-cultural disconnect and heated discussion. Instead, this is a culture clash. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. If the answer is no to any of those questions you need to let them get eaten by the cubicle wasteland of corporate culture, because they aren’t ready for this kind of work. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Driving across the U.S.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet. pop culture. Or re-save the scripts from Tools + Script Manager. Spreadsheet details: Public scripts? infographic.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

But don’t worry it’s a strong sales culture with great salesmanship that may certainly help you out at renewal time.” Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

A vertical market has a culture. And while in some cultures it is ok to “ban&# words, that’s not really what we do in the US. The verticallity of a particular market refers to its height in the tree. In defining a product, you can easily move up or down and accidentally make a mess of your target market. Order Here.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Internet Archive : a digital library of web sites and other "cultural artifacts," a wonderful amazing ongoing project, is there any doubt that the importance of this increases exponentially over time? Tags: education , top 10. Facebook , for demonstrating how to create a rich community by, for and among students. at 9:17 AM.

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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. A company’s DNA is set by the founders, and its culture is an extension of the founders’ personalities. Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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. ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. 100% of those tests ran, via a continuous integration cluster, after every checkin. What is customer development?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful.

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