archive tag origin-stories 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
It’s just a story about what happened to me. I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides. Luckily I had the original slides and could prove who came first. We had discovered detailed information about what customers really needed and wanted and turned our original hypotheses into facts.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Lessons Learned” – A New Type of VC Pitch A Customer Development fundraising presentation tells the story of your journey in Customer Discovery and Validation. Here’s What Happened is the not so surprising story of why customers didn’t react the way you thought they would.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
They were one of the first companies to sell an external disk drive for the original Mac; they had the first “color paint programs” for the Mac; and when the Mac was just black and white they had the first color graphics boards and large screen color monitors for the Mac. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). In the meantime, the original VP of Marketing tries to come up with a new positioning strategy to support the new Sales VP. The board raises a collective eyebrow.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
These were inspiring stories, but I realized that, no surprise, the popular press were writing books that had mass appeal. The story of the valley post war, through the 1950′s, is mostly about the growth of the tube companies and the rise of Hewlett Packard. After 20 years, the story started coming home for me.
www.readwriteweb.com
MAY 10, 2012
The widgets can be easily inserted and removed from layouts that were not originally planned for, and testing these options grants peace of mind. Issues discovered at this stage may require the original vision to be tempered, and sometimes a new device that’s just hit the market can throw a wrench in the works. and tagged with.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 30, 2016
Snapchat for my “original run” and I’ll also store each video to be watched later. I’ll run the original episode on Snapchat and I hope an audience will continue to want to tune in. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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