Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] New strategic direction in companies with loyal customers have different consequences then when you had no customers Acquiring new customers are a lot more expensive that converting existing ones. Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers [.]

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.] Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. You have a product manager, an engineer, data scientists… you have leadership there.” (via CXL Live). For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section.

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JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch). It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » O MVP: a ferramenta de experimentação e aprendizado da Startup - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on January 12, 2010 at 7:08 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply How to close a term sheet quickly - Venture Hacks , on April 28, 2009 at 10:43 am Said: [.]

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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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JULY 13, 2009

<< (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: [.] Reply Dan L , on July 13, 2009 at 7:32 pm Said: Interesting story.

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MAY 28, 2009

Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] Best regards, Dan Reply links for 2009-11-13 « Blarney Fellow , on November 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm Said: [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [.]

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APRIL 27, 2009

On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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MAY 26, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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JULY 2, 2009

Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] This post was Twitted by altgate [.] Reply links for 2009-07-02 « Blarney Fellow , on July 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm Said: [.] Reply Dmitriy , on July 2, 2009 at 9:10 pm Said: To me this looks like inherent problem with venture capital model.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] links for 2009-06-25 « Blarney Fellow , on June 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm Said: [.]

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list.

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MARCH 25, 2009

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System » 20 Responses brantcooper , on March 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm Said: Great story, Steve. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-03-26 , on March 27, 2009 at 1:02 am Said: [.]

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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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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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You could have the same problem hiring for other leadership roles too like Director Of Software Development or Master Bottle Washer. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. Assuming your business succeeds and grows youll need a proper CTO at some point.

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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. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? I have been swinging for the fences for several years as a young entrepreneur at the executive leadership level for several start-ups and most recently starting my own.

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JULY 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Rocket Science Games | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product Burnout » 7 Responses Steve , on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 am Said: Steve, This is an excellent post. Make sure they are.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Steve Blank [.] Reply links for 2009-12-08 « that dismal science , on December 8, 2009 at 11:31 am Said: [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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MARCH 20, 2009

Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.]. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.].

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JULY 20, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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APRIL 2, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.] via SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks « St… [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? Bill Perry put us on the path to use Silicon Valley as a weapon in the cold war. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days.

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