Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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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). Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. Now In Print!

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JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. 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

JUNE 25, 2009

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. They are very interesting.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. in Computer Science.

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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: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. How would that change my company strategy? Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. pointed me to the vast masses of paper archives sitting at law firms, waiting to be digitized, and archived in meaningful ways along with efficient retrieval capabilities. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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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: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System » 20 Responses brantcooper , on March 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm Said: Great story, Steve. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions. I’ve learned so much! Thanks for sharing! Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

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 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. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.] Thanks for sharing! Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Get out of the building and meet people. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Steve Blank’s market type discussions to learn when a big megaphone might be the right [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. What didn’t? Write it down and keep it in a tradeshow handbook for those who will follow. Go to trade shows like it matters. You can learn more about them here: [link] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. How do you emulate this culture outside of Silicon Valley? Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. If you hire the best, this person will lead you to the rest.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

tags: startup productivity) [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » The Role of Corner Cases in BPM , on May 5, 2009 at 3:40 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Yep, that’s what I meant. Dangerous stuff, to be sure! Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » A raiz da alta taxa de fracassos das Startups: o modelo tradicional de desenvolvimento - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 1, 2009 at 10:16 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Reply Ask the Angels » Blog Archive » Friday Random Ramblings…and Some Good Weekend Reading , on October 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm Said: [.] Order Here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post.

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MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you. Reply spy bugs , on May 4, 2009 at 10:14 am Said: Thanks a lot, wonderful post. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. If you’ve never seen Eric’s Lean Startup presentation, take a few minutes to at least watch his part. It starts at ~40:30 in the video. Reply Excellent video for tech startups…by Eric Ries , on May 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm Said: [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Palantir Technologies » The Secret History of Silicon Valley , on April 16, 2009 at 3:03 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. BTW, keep the comments coming, they’re read and appreciated. Best, and get in touch if you want to do some Big Dish EME… –Pat Apolloeme@live.com [link] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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