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MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] There was no proselytizing about any particular methodology, yet the results are compelling. The VC firm delivered a term sheet for an 8-digit second round that afternoon. Your results may vary.

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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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JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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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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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

For a startup Speed and Tempo need to be an integral part of your corporate DNA. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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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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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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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 26, 2009

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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

——————- Part 3 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) [.] The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) [.]

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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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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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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. I just wish I don’t have to fight another company with such an unstoppable team led by Steve for my life.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup strategy customer-development) [.]

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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

—– Next: Part 5 of the Customer Development Manifesto – why your goals and those of your venture investors may not be the same – the last post on what’s broken in the Product Development Model. shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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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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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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JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Get out of the building and meet people.

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JULY 20, 2009

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan | Tagged: Durant , Sloan « Unintended Lessons Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal » 7 Responses Prakash S , on October 1, 2009 at 11:02 am Said: Have you read this? This time in what would become Silicon Valley.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » A raiz da alta taxa de fracassos das Startups: o modelo tradicional de desenvolvimento - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 1, 2009 at 10:16 am Said: [.] And even more importantly, was there any way to reduce risk in early stage ventures?

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore. Tags: startupcto. Catchy tune. Find a Cofounder Event Got a cool idea for a Bmore App?

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JULY 30, 2009

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APRIL 30, 2009

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