Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Most startups I talk to struggle and fail because they chased too many opportunities rather than focused their efforts on one. Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup business) [.] I wonder if the greater challenge for many CEOs is recognizing that customers need to be fired at all.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] How quickly will you recover? But it won’t be happening daily.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. For example, Projects asks you to pick a growth lever… You’ll also notice the tags section. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Archive. Your Tempo and Resources.

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Steve Blank

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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Whats interesting is that Ive been seeing opportunities to use social marketing for businesses that typically target Time Poor audiences. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.] Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Designers, argues @fergusdyersmith should view crowdsourcing sites as lead generation opportunities – [link]. Designers, argues @fergusdyersmith should view crowdsourcing sites as lead generation opportunities – [link]. We’re all in this together.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.]

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Steve Blank

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. There is no doubt that mistakes create opportunities. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA.

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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Their presentation looked like this: Market/Opportunity Lessons Learned Slide 1 Lessons Learned Slide 2 Lessons Learned Slide 3 Why We’re Here Telling the Cafepress Customer Discovery and Customer Validation story allowed Fred and Maheesh to take the VC’s on their journey year by year.

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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. But like most marketing opportunities, if they are planned, the more your business will get from them. #3 6 Build a company archive. A vibrant business has many marketing channels, on and offline.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups.

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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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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. wheat, corn, etc) but livestock alone represents a massive market opportunity for the company. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. feedstocks).

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Steve Blank

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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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

[inurl:"guest * post" search term] to find recent guest blogging opportunities on the topic of your interest. Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet.

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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This way, you’ll be able to use the holidays as an opportunity to buy presents that serve a greater purpose. Rory’s Story Cubes is a fun dice game with limitless storytelling opportunities. The only drawback is the price tag. Rory’s Story Cubes: . No household is complete without this game, and I don’t just say it as a writer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Steve Blank

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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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Having actual users is really an important factor in one’s busy-ness, because if you don’t have any users you can work at your own pace without anybody’s expectations to fulfil) As a newborn entrepreneur, I was excited by all the opportunities that were presented to me (like a baby basically). I don’t have to say yes to every opportunity.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of my readers, particularly those who have voted, commented or contacted me about this blog…your interest is my motivation! Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. Enthusiastically share the vision of the companys opportunities. Tags: startupcto. The gist: 1. Have the skills that the business needs.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

“We’re counting on people to come to Google and take advantage of the opportunity. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. The product is the star of the show.”

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