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. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups A Lean Startup is not about the total amount of money you may spend over the life of your startup.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A few months ago, Business Week did a piece on this role. Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. He comes to the table with considerable insights. What do you think?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) In 1978 when I joined my first company , information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist. In 1978 when I joined my first company , information about how to start companies simply didn’t exist.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Speed = Execution Now General George Patton said, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” The same is true in your company. Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. This doesn’t mean gambling the company’s fortunes on a whim.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design – [link]. We’re all in this together. SEO and logo designers – [link]. 200+ Fractal Brushes for Photoshop – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The next week in class a project group raised their hands and said, “Hey, Professor Blank, we found out the common wisdom in the biotech business is that “we need $10-20 million just for the R&D phase and 100’s of million to get through clinical trials.” “Of course,&# I said, “Life science is completely different.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Youll cover your monthly costs in support savings in your first week. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteStart. White Papers. Case Studies. Thats where ReadWriteRecommends comes in. Some of these tools are consumer-grade. Turns out you need them both!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. Here’s a recent one I did on Fund Raising in tough markets. You can follow me on Snapchat at msuster. Every platform has its unique strengths.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent was a 6-day a week 12-hour day company. Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) But this story is not about Convergent. It’s about entrepreneurship and family. Like most 20-somethings I modeled my behavior on the CEO in the company.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Repeat every day, six or seven days a week. But it can also force you to hit the pause button and perhaps take a moment to reevaluate your life and your choices. Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. This post, which is divided in two parts, is the story of the first time it happened to me.

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Recommendation engines are arguably one of the trendiest uses of data science in startups today. How many new apps have you heard of that claim to “learn your tastes”? However, recommendations engines are widely misunderstood both in terms of what is involved in building a one as well as what problems they actually solve.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Then I handed out the questionnaire to all of marketing and made two customer calls a week mandatory for everyone, including my secretary. In this one month we had learned more about desktop publishing on the Mac than any one of our competitors. First, I presented what I had learned.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 I got a preview of it a couple of weeks ago and my review is that it is really impressive!  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator. .  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator."

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2016

If you’re interested, you can f ind, listen, and subscribe to my long, long list of archives here. One way around that is to suggest they add a “PS” to the bottom of an email that is already going out that week. iTunes’ gives you eight weeks from the day that you launch to be featured in the “New & Noteworthy” section.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Every week StartupDigest publishes weekly newsletters about the best events, jobs, and what to read for your industry. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. To my surprise, VC? Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly social proof? on AngelList.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! First off I’m giving away a free iPad each day during the week, that’s one a day for five days.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Coming out of the fog at the sound of serious dollars about to be spent, I politely suggested that the new collateral was on-hold, and we were going to spend the first few weeks of my tenure trying to understand who our customers were, and what we wanted to say to them. Was she going to propose a coherent communications strategy?

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Skip to Navigation. >. User login. Sign in here or Create your free account! Username: Password: Forgot your password ? The Feed Blog. Resources General. Friends Sponsors. About The Team. In the Press. What's Next. Connect with Greenhorn: -->. what you need. Resources Events Feed Job Board Students. 2) You’re hiring employees.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

GEEK OF THE WEEK. Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. This essay originally appeared on MIT Sloan Management Review as part of their Frontiers Essay Series. But they won’t stop there. Sound far-fetched?

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks. Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as what would have been done in eight 40-hour weeks. Introduction.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web — he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me. altgate » Blog Archive » Vivid Dreams: Larry Page Describes Google’s Origin [.] The optimism of youth is often underrated!

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Like when in the space of a week everybody I knew had signed up for Quora. I wanted to look at what they actually did so in looking at their website I saw this positioning.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

I will blog about it more next week. Closing HTML Tag Killer I know how to fix the problem: If I go into footer.php and remove the closing HTML tag the home page and single post display work…if I add it back they crash (500 error – when I look in the error log the message is “Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi&#

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. That’s OK, because we knew better.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

I like simplicity too: I enjoy donating or throwing stuff away I resist buying more stuff when I travel, for one week or for one year, I only take a 30L backpack I enjoy reading ZenHabits.net The point I want to make today is that too often, developers will claim their application is simple where in fact their application is incomplete.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. but it’s manageable. Date first. Coincidence?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). We want to hear about, learn from and even replicate what they’ve done. However, this survivorship bias is problematic. Corporate America could learn from this.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

But this often isn’t the way things turn out. Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. Most disturbingly, I’ve occasionally found myself agreeing with an entrepreneur’s decision to hire a development shop to build their product. Don’t laugh.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I still remember him chuckling as I nervously babbled on what I good job I would do, what I would change for the better in the department, why I was qualified, etc. He said, “you know I figured it would be you to come in here and ask for the job. All I had to do was ask. For entrepreneurs good things come to those who ask.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. . ———————– Swords Into Plowshares After the end of World War II, returning veterans were happy to beat swords into plowshares (and microwave tubes) on the Stanford campus. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds military to rearm and mobilize.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Local venture investors and/or companies offer cash prizes for the winners. Just Google the term and you’ll be amazed. to compete.

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