Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

But at times it’s why entrepreneurs can sink their own companies. This tendency is a two edged sword: by iterating strategy a startup can dramatically improve the size and trajectory of the company, but at times this process can be the bane of venture investors (and why they have prematurely grey hair.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? Why not elsewhere in the country or the world? Why was it occurring here? And why on earth the sudden military interest in microwaves? How did Silicon Valley start? How did this culture of “make it happen&# emerge, etc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear. Why I was interested was equally obscure. Worse, no one inside the company had a profound belief in who the company was and why they existed. The first step was to recruit a new management team. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. I took the job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. from blog archives) – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. from blog archives) – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Here’s What Happened is the not so surprising story of why customers didn’t react the way you thought they would. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] A Progress Graph Here’s What We Thought is you describing your initial set of hypotheses.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lets see why. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

That’s why I make my students spend a lot of time “touching the hot stove&# by talking to customers “outside the building” to test their hypotheses. Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] Remember your parents saying, “Don’t touch the hot stove!” What did you do?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Responsive approach: So why implement responsive design over the waterfall process? and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Why don’t you tell your engineers to build both byte-orders into your new chip?” steveblank , on September 7, 2010 at 11:00 pm Said: Mark, You’ve just listed the reasons why startups are not done by accountants with spreadsheets. Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) * Archives + October 2009 +… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. We’re all in this together. – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount. Tags: startupcto. then youll be off to a good start!

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. 5 Reasons Why I Ditched My iPad for a Google Nexus 7. 10 Ways Startups Can Track Trends: And Why It’s So Important. Enterprise.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.] Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.] Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large company.

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine. This is why you cannot use this approach in a brand new MVP. . This entry was posted in Commentary , Data Science DC , Methods , Rant and tagged data science , e-commerce , machine learning , recommendation engines. Why a Data Community is like a Music Scene. Sponsorship.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Titles are not your job When I pressed my staff to explain why marketing did trade shows, or wrote press releases or penned data sheets, the best I could get was “why that’s our job.” The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” If not, why am I doing it?” If so, which one?

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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.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. in Computer Science.

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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

JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Their presentation looked like this: Market/Opportunity Lessons Learned Slide 1 Lessons Learned Slide 2 Lessons Learned Slide 3 Why We’re Here Telling the Cafepress Customer Discovery and Customer Validation story allowed Fred and Maheesh to take the VC’s on their journey year by year.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Why couldn’t he have set up a lab at Stanford? 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!) So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I talked all about how great the new products were and went into excruciating detail on our hardware and operating system and explained why no one other than our company could build something so brilliantly designed. We’re here to sell them our stuff, why can’t we just present what we got and they’ll buy it.) Help them?!!

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And thats why we have two winners in this category. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteStart. White Papers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

<< (tags: startups) [.] Seems that you were just some of the most visible of a long line of people and companies to see the game industry from the outside and fundamentally misunderstand why people play games. Reply Dan L , on July 13, 2009 at 7:32 pm Said: Interesting story.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You need to truly understand the differences within your “big market&# and why they exist. The original terms we used were perfectly fine…why %$#@ with them? Reply dv , on June 11, 2010 at 12:23 am Said: Why are you getting stuck on a word? Rest assured there are differences, and they can be significant.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

So if my target demo is on Snapchat — why the f**k would I publish somewhere else? It’s why sports is so important to media — because it’s one of the few remaining events that MUST be watched in realtime. Why on Earth Would Anybody Post Business Videos on Snapchat? So just like TV. I hope both audiences gain.

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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: [.] How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They spend an hour on our site every day and we know why because we interviewed them.&# as well as a potential revenue model (why not start with a framework for revenue?). Reply Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough « Steve Blank , on December 17, 2009 at 6:01 am Said: [.]

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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

JULY 2, 2009

I was going to find out why this wasn’t a good idea. Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid « Steve Blank (tags: vc startup) [.] In reality I had been hired as CEO and the adult supervision and administrative overseer of one of the most creative talents in the valley. This post was Twitted by altgate [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

But we didn’t have infinite cash; we had just emerged from bankruptcy, and unless we could get customers to quickly understand why our products were great, we were headed there again. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] And paradoxically we had to raise our prices.

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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. Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. why are you giving this way for free…geez. Weighing in on Amazon/Macmillan Pricing Debate The Sad State of the Old Music Business The Pressure on TV Networks, Ari Emmanuel and Cable Companies Why Should eBooks Cost $15? Why Netflix Won.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2015

In September of 2014, when I became a Duct Tape Marketing Certified Consultant, I provided a list of ten reasons why joining the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant network is a no-brainer for digital agencies. 7 Stages of a Total Online Presence Seminar Archive Yesterday I conducted an online seminar to over 1,300 small.

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