archive tag life-dinner 
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
My company became the most important thing in my life. It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. If I had been older, wiser, or more honest with myself, I would have understood that my wife and family should have been the most important thing in my life.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2009
Discovering that your worldview is wrong or mistaken can be a life-changing event. One warm summer evening I got invited over to the house of a married couple from my company for a BBQ and after-dinner entertainment – drinking mass quantities of the local beer. It’s part of growing up but can happen at any age.
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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. So five whys pays for itself awfully fast, and it makes life noticeably better almost right away. Thats also the same 20% that causes you to waste the most time.
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2009
We would have a family dinner at home most nights of the week. But we would use dinner time to talk about what they did at school, have family meetings etc. But we would use dinner time to talk about what they did at school, have family meetings etc. When my oldest graduated high school I gave her a timelapse movie of her life.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
For those who are truly outside the loop life is not as simple as this magical fairy tale goes. To settle down and lead the normal life that 98% of the population does or take the risk and pursue your dreams. Me, I live with a parent (moved back in my late 20s) to pursue and enjoy start-up life. There are other factors at work.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 16, 2008
But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. That benefit carries over through the whole life of a project. In many ways, this is a maintainability nightmare, but it has a compensating benefit.
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