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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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

  Michigan is a great school and you can really tell how much of an impact it had on Larry watching this…Go Blue! Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged Google , Larry Page , Search , Search Engine , Terry Winograd , University of Michigan , Web page , Web search engine.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES , Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs. Tags: Events. Go to your users.".

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? He quit his job as a Baltimore City school teacher to create his company, Common Curriculum. Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

grad school. Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Related posts ( autogenerated ): Considering The Founder’s Institute. Passing On Founder’s Institute. TechCocktailDC It’s Usual Thing. MySQL Founder Thinks Oracle Should Divest. link] Sebastian F. link] scyphers.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

Forget Med School - Be a Startup Doctor. Lessons from Startup School from the Founders of Facebook, Groupon, GitHub and More. and tagged with. startup school , startup toolkit. and tagged with. startup school , startup toolkit. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house. And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. More recruiting articles by Dr. Sullivan can be found in the ER Daily archives. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence. Recruiting Community.™ ™ All Articles. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

T hink of it as the ultimate vocational training school. As it was a vocational school, I think the most math we had to do was to figure out whether we got a passing grade, and no one was in any danger of actually designing new equipment, but I left with an excellent education in troubleshooting, and solving complex problems in real-time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Only in business school case studies does progress with customers happen in a nice linear fashion.) Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Midas Oracle.ORG , on September 17, 2009 at 7:05 am Said: [.] carry on reading.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Like high-school politics. ;-p. Find out more about Anil » Leaders of the New School. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. legal , nda , startups , trust. Embed: 13 Comments.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.] link] Yaniv Nizan.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

From the article: Del Val, as it is known, was founded by American Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf at the suggestion of writer Leo Tolstoy, according to college archives. The National Farm School, open to all faiths, began the following year with 10 students. immigrants would be better off tilling soil than living in cramped industrial cities.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Tags: development , enterprise , web services Subscribe to this blog Print They havent put their press release on a web page anywhere as far as I can tell but WS-I ("Web Services Interoperability Organization") has finally run out of runway and will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF. Goodbye, WS-I.

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

It also caught the eye of Professor Noam Wasserman, who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (and who created the “Rich-vs-King&# framework). A couple of years ago I wrote this post on the science and art of negotiating a term sheet , which turned out to be a fairly popular post. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

ReadWriteStart ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteStart All Posts Archives Featured RSS Twitter Facebook Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets (..)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

While it seemed a bit incongruous, it was fun listening to my friends in graduate school over dinner worrying about grades and jobs. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] I was always kind of curious.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged market timing , skill , startup , venture capital.

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

Over the years I’ve had the privilege of speaking about entrepreneurship several times at Tufts, Babson and a few other schools. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneurship , startup , Will Smith. I totally agree. My shtick includes a not-so-eloquent version of this speech.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military was funding half of Stanford’s engineering school budget. steve Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for August 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on August 7, 2009 at 1:26 am Said: [.] Although the country had returned to peace, some in the military wanted to preserve our ability to fight the next war.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Or if you have kids, it will get asked when you’ve missed another one of their plays, soccer games or school events because you were too busy finishing that project or on yet another business trip. Friends will want you to go back to school and get more “education.&# The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

I think one or more enterpreneurs who came up through sales should step up and organize a lecture series on sales via an enterpreneurship program at Harvard, Stanford or some other school of similar stature. Let’s use this as a springboard to bring sales into the academic fold. Bookmark the permalink. A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Dreier is a graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged corruption , fraud , white collar crime. Founder of New York law firm Dreier LLC bilked hedge fund investors out of nearly $400 million by selling bogus securities while impersonating other people. Come again?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Almost every university, region and car wash now has a business plan competition; the rules, who can participate, how large the prizes and who are the judges vary by school. Martin , on May 7, 2009 at 9:36 am Said: The caveat would be for undergrads at a school like Stanford or Berkeley. to compete.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] And the answer came back much as it did in my past jobs; Who cares, get back to work. to do that.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. Let me know what you think. Does any of this match your experience or people you know?

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was working and going to school for a second degree in my field; I was spending 14 hours a day dedicated to my job, plus a three hours of commuting, and homework on the weekends. It was all about work at first. See [link] for the narrative. I was overworked and under appreciated.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

A career path is a continuation of the direction you’ve gotten at home and school – do these things and you’ll get these rewards. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Even with a career path you’ll discover that you need to champion your own trajectory down that path.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.].

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

9 trackbacks } links for 2007-12-18 | mad dog in the fog December 18, 2007 at 9:20 am BlueBlog: Software Engineering Tips for Startups December 18, 2007 at 9:47 am Jengates Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-12-18 December 18, 2007 at 7:26 pm links for 2007-12-19 « Amy G. Like an old school travel suitcase!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. in school. Reply Harvey , on April 11, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Some of the best engineers I hired out of school were not 3.5+ anti) correlation between good grades in school and success in entrepreneurship. I love Google. Or Microsoft or IBM. GPA or better.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. eh I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. Great info, I can’t wait to read more.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. But we would use dinner time to talk about what they did at school, have family meetings etc. And one of us actually went to business school.) My wife knew a bit about startups.

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