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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

There were a few times in my career I knew at that moment I was watching something profound – (Holding the glass masks of the Z80 microprocessor. She’s in the little car on the monitor, and she’s also, if you look very carefully, in the water. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. My first IPO at Convergent.

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One More Time: No NDAs

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No, I wont "just sign it" without having a lawyer look it over, because its a legally binding document whether a lawyer reads it or not. But for individual entrepreneurs who just have a good idea and big dreams, its easy to be misled into thinking that walking in the door with a fancy legal document makes you look professional or "serious".

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The VP of Marketing looked at all the other PDAs on the market and differentiated Handspring’s product by emphasizing its superior expandability and performance. Reply Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Why The iPad Will Be A Success, In the Long Term , on February 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm Said: [.] End result?

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Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product

Steve Blank

One magazine called us the “Digital Dream Team”, young, edgy and hip, and by the looks of the company (great building, nice furniture, and well dressed 20-year olds) we were trying to live up to the reputation. << (tags: startups) [.] All this activity occurring before we actually shipped a product.

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How to Build a Strong A/B Testing Plan That Gets Results

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If you have proper KPIs and look at them periodically, you will keep your strategy on track. To find out what could bring the biggest gains, look for trends in your customer feedback. When looking into the segments though, we may see that it is performing exceptionally well for Android users, but badly for iPhone users.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

As a going away gift my roommates got me a joke disguise kit with a fake nose, glasses and mustache. As I ran, if I looked at the base behind the fence I was staring at the most advanced technology of the 20th century. I never looked back. As for me, after a few years I decided that into was time to turn swords into plowshares.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In hindsight this list looks pretty organized but in reality we made it up as we went along, accompanied with all the husband and wife struggles of being married and trying to raise a family in Silicon Valley. The kids looked forward to them and we made them special. I looked at my kids and never went back. Traditions matter.