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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

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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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. GeekWire Partners.

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SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone's Job « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I do remember that those customer questioneers were our ticket to the weekly staff meeting Hope you are doing well, I’m moving back to the Bay Area with my kids this summer, would love to catch up. Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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The End of Innocence

Steve Blank

One warm summer evening I got invited over to the house of a married couple from my company for a BBQ and after-dinner entertainment – drinking mass quantities of the local beer. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry? Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Team with co-workers at your current job or that internship you did last summer. Finding Your Co-Founders (tags: startup business entrepreneurship entrepreneur inspiration startups entrepreneurs howto) [.] Tags: startupcto. Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! Ideas are important.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.