archive tag founders-story 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. The board raises a collective eyebrow. Thanks for sharing.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. Here’s What Happened is the not so surprising story of why customers didn’t react the way you thought they would. Just as a refresher.
Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2009
Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. The story had universal appeal, and we spun the tale and keep the buzz going. They all accurately predicted our demise because of our lack of game expertise.)
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts. But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon.
mashable.com
JULY 18, 2012
Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Trending Stories. Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
Fred Terman – the Cover Story I’d heard of Terman but I didn’t really know what he did – his biography said that he was one of the preeminent radio engineers in the 1930′s literally writing the textbooks. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.
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