Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

On its first day of trading, Netscape stock closed at $58/share, valuing the company at $2.7 The goals were “first mover advantage,&# “grab market share” and “get big fast.” Next time you sit in a board meeting with your VCs, step back a bit from the moment and listen to their advice like you are hearing them for the first time.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The first post, From Nothing To Something. The first folks you meet may not be a fit, but keep asking for referrals and you’ll get there. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. How To Get There, is here. Keep up with the good job.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

First the bad news: the new family of eight high performance graphics cards we were counting on couldn’t be delivered. Rabbits Out of the Hat – Branding and Line Extensions First, what we proposed is that we take our world class, ten-times-faster-than-anyone board and build an entire product family around it, by slowing it down.

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