Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Good stuff. Glad you liked the post. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. See the previous Ardent posts for context.) Cray’s first customers were the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The term “endian&# came from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. In it the Lilliputians argue over how they should eat their hard boiled eggs.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. See Five Things Meme as an example. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Why OMGPOP's Draw Something Game Is Losing Users. What's Next in TV: Machinima, The No.1 1 Entertainment Network on YouTube. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. The Social Layer. Cloud Computing. Augmented Reality. Real-Time Web.

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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. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. How do I get in the room next time?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Zing! Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. What’s the future of advertising? What are the Origins of the World’s Most Important Typefaces – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Zing! Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. What’s the future of advertising? What are the Origins of the World’s Most Important Typefaces – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

At least 1/3 of the time the response I get is, “Oh that class stuff was real interesting, but we’re too busy building the prototype. The first questions I ask is “So what did you learn from testing your hypothesis?” and “What did customers think of your prototype?” These questions I know will be on top of the list that VC’s will ask.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

And my advice to students who believe they want to do a startup but are unsure if they want to start one, is to join one that’s already raised their first round of funding. The Adventure of a Lifetime. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Use the Lean Startup - When There's Market Risk The second question is : “What’s the “ Market Type ” of your startup? This class of startup needs to spend a decade or so proving that the product works, first in a test tube and then in FDA trials. Customer Development is unhelpful here.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Tempo = Speed Consistently Over Time Once you learn how to make decisions quickly you’re not done. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon. It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts. Here’s how they did it.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

That’s why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Additionally, the spreadsheet’s embedded chart lets you compare Facebook interaction for the number of pages provided. Extract and Archive Your Followers. Fetch Twitter Search Results. Facebook share count.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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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

MAY 28, 2009

Markets with Invention Risk are those where it’s questionable whether the technology can ever be made to work – but if it does customers will beat a path to the company’s door. Markets with Customer/Market Risk are those where the unknown is whether customers will adopt the product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. He’s looking for a training instructor.&# I am sorry there really isn’t a job for you.&# I was stunned.

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