Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.”

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 17, 2011

tags: Blog economics. tags: Blog. Slides & Video: Climb the Social Business Hierarchy of Needs (LeWeb Keynote, 2011) « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing. tags: blog LeWeb socialmedia. tags: blog segmentation. tags: blog google maps. tags: blog google maps. tags: blog.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

On one hand, we were in a rigid command and control system where we had to follow orders, salute officers and understand the military hierarchy, yet on the other we were in an educational institution where we were encouraged to ask all the questions you wanted. Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

What VC’s Really Want But Don’t Know How to Ask For or Get Mike Maples at Maples Investments observes that the quality of pitches from entrepreneurs get better as you climb the “Hierarchy of Proof.” Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.]

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web pages don’t have to use 12- or 16-column grids, and websites don’t have to follow strict hierarchies. The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. But getting there means facing a legacy that did.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. However, this is not the case.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Given where I was in the hierarchy, I calculated that the odds of me being in on those decisions didn’t look high – ever. There was a ton of engineering innovation and coordination along the way, and the project could have failed at any point. Martin , on July 23, 2009 at 6:54 am Said: I’m a big Frost fan.

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