Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Tell the Story of the Journey The company got to a point where additional capital was needed to expand just to keep up with the business (a warehouse/shipping center collocated with UPS, etc.) Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] The rest is just fluff.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Trending Stories. Google Maps: Tree Density Tells the Story of Income Inequality. Print Story. Email Story. Like Tweet.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. The story had universal appeal, and we spun the tale and keep the buzz going. They all accurately predicted our demise because of our lack of game expertise.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Fred Terman – the Cover Story I’d heard of Terman but I didn’t really know what he did – his biography said that he was one of the preeminent radio engineers in the 1930′s literally writing the textbooks. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market ? So if we couldn’t be new, cheaper or attack our competitors head-on, what was left? We needed to come up with a playbook with completely new rules, then execute relentlessly and with urgency. No, not really.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We were sitting in our conference room in our first “system-planning meeting” trying to define the specifications of our new supercomputer and make the trade-offs between what was possible to build, and what customers in this new market would actually want and need. Later my friends told me my face went pale.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We just turned on the rental car radio as we entered campus and heard the mid day BBC news – the space shuttle Challenger had just exploded. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Building the Team My new Director of Marketing Communications turned the Marcom departments into a mission-focused organization. Her new tradeshow manager quickly came to understand that their job was not to set up booths. My new head of Public Relations quickly learned that my admin could answer calls from the press.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] But it won’t be happening daily. You’re not joining a big company.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It’s just a story about what happened to me. He was now CEO of a new company in our market. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. We announced the next day, positioned as a player in a much larger and broader market with new positioning, strategy and customers.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. Instead, they just keep getting new features and new capabilities. and tagged with. Recommended Story. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I talked all about how great the new products were and went into excruciating detail on our hardware and operating system and explained why no one other than our company could build something so brilliantly designed. And that their management wanted these new systems on a schedule that was impossible to meet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

For those that don’t mind reruns, I’ll publish the archive 1–2 weeks later, when I get around to uploading the video to the cloud, tagging and providing links. I enjoy playing with new technologies and trying to understand how they are changing society and how society is changing new technologies. I enjoy the process.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

After the end of the lockup, venture firms sold off their stock in an orderly fashion, and entrepreneurs sold theirs and bought new cars and houses. VCs or entrepreneurs who talked about building profitable businesses were told, “You just don’t get the new rules.” And to be honest, for four years, these were the new rules.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

We need to decide immediately between which version of the new logo to use.” We need your decision now because we are about to spend $50,000 on new collateral.” It would be great to know how they got news and information about new products and new companies. Had they read any stories about us?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Colour Graphics show how to utilise offline marketing to attract more business and custom, without a heavy price tag. And then there are trade shows, perfect for launching new products or reminding people of the great set of services you offer. 6 Build a company archive. But offline marketing can and do still yield results.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

His team wrote what became FinalCut Pro at Macromedia; it was bought by Apple, and now he’s at Apple doing new versions of iMovie. Brant Cooper , on May 11, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: Another nice story. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. A third type of market has both invention and market risk.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

But no one was prepared when I said, “These facts are now old, but since we are going to be changing customer perceptions we need to get new customer data weekly. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There’s a new trend in toy design and it’s probably one of the most important in decades: STEM toys are designed to encourage children’s interest in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Rory’s Story Cubes: . Rory’s Story Cubes is a fun dice game with limitless storytelling opportunities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

The backdrop to my story is that I attended the Duct Tape Marketing Annual Summit last year. From tagging tweets and posts, to simply notifying business chambers and local media, you will find many venues and organizations that will be motivated to share your story on social media. Conversion Optimization.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Post-Mortem Title : Aftermath.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. Our potential customers didn’t seem to be calling for Hollywood stories, characters and narrative. That’s OK, because we knew better.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

But this story is not about Convergent. If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8000 peripheral chips included the new “ Serial Communications Controller &# ( SCC ). Your Customers are Not Who You Think For years I thought this “million unit chip sale by accident&# was a “one-off&# funny story.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

He took us through a day (and a night) of a hardcore gamer and told us about the new class of CD-ROM based game machines about to hit the market. I love all these war stories. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] Do you think your skills made you any more (or any less) prone to believing?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. To check how effective our new packaging was, we ran tests at our local computer retailer. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I caught my breath and thought about it for a minute and said, “How about I go talk to the new training manager. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] This could be a bad day. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&# Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in. The new building needs to reflect that we’re a successful and established company. Lets get comfortable chairs and great new desks for everyone. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. Even the foremost marketing experts in the world are not sure whether people will buy a new product.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. concepts - re the new iPad newspaper that does not allow talkbacks or any other feedback mechnism !?!?!?? method=post. 2 responses.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

After a year and a half of running training and teaching the new Z-8000 and its peripheral chips, I began to figure out that one of the jobs of marketing was to translate what engineering built into a description that our salesmen could use to talk to potential customers. You’ll create your own stories.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

This post, which is divided in two parts, is the story of the first time it happened to me. I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. on July 20, 2009 at 4:36 pm Said: Good story.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&# at 5:20 pm [.]

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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. 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. What’s Your Favorite Future? And Why 20%?

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