www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out. Online Communities. The Social Layer. Cloud Computing. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web. Social Web.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Who is the decision maker? Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Something else? Who’s the customer? Who influences a sale? Who recommends a sale? Who is the economic buyer?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Not only didn’t the movie makers know, but the pilots and crews didn’t know about the German radar guided system trying to kill them. 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!)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I still remember the day I talked to Ram Banin, the head of engineering of Daisy Systems (a maker of Electronic Design Automation workstations) and he said, “Steve, you’ll never make every potential customer happy. Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] I’m a designer.

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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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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. Previous Entries.

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Steve Blank

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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