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. Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea. The response from across the country?

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Tim is a serial entrepreneur currently working on using artificial intelligence and semantic analysis to extract knowledge from unstructured text found in social media. Tim is considering working on a book, a startup survival guide for CTOs.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. Think of individuals like McClure, Paul Graham and George Zachary as market analysts. davidhaber Index analogy isn't exactly apt either. startupcto

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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. Bill Perry’s public life as Secretary of Defense and his subsequent work in preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is public knowledge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I really enjoy working with them and their companies. Steve and I worked to find a metaphor that would help explain the power of lean startups, and why they have a serious competitive advantage, especially in these challenging economic times. Im working on a post that links to those videos too. you get the idea.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. Unless you’re a designer you’re going to outsource the graphical design work you have, but remember, you get what you pay for. And remember, anything is possible with hard work and the right attitude.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Using surveys to identify what’s working and “what’s not working” in the process. The goal of this step is proactively developing and deploying content about what makes your organization a desirable place to work in the minds of your target talent populations.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? The main application we operate – FlashDen – is a very complicated beast that today has a development team of six working fulltime on it. But it sure does seem to help!

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Those winners are StoryTree , Culture Kitchen , and Volta. Also notable: 20% of the startups participating this time around have female founders (LaunchBit, Snapette, Vayable, Cardinal Blue and Culture Kitchen) and three of those teams (LaunchBit, Snapette, and Culture Kitchen) are 100% female. The full list is below).

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A Blog About Making Culture. By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDA s about the new projects theyre working on. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. Anil Dash. About Anil Dash. Most Popular. May 7, 2010. Embed: 13 Comments.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures. If you’re lucky, you can ride in their slipstream and let them do all the work. While that’s not true, it is a fact that entrepreneurs only have one word for “startup.” Like that, but better&#.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Given we consciously worked hard not to, here’s what we were thinking. We decided to work with our engineering department to create the Potreo benchmarks because we really wanted to see how our boards performed with the four applications customers told us that they used; Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator and PageMaker.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

If it was a very big mistake, I blamed the VP of Sales. “This marketing campaign didn’t work? When they discovered that the sky didn’t fall and they still had their jobs, our corporate culture took one more step toward a more effective and cohesive company. But where does this corporate culture come from?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Many people think stealth mode is about locking your team in a room, working through the nights unbeknown to anyone else, and emerging at some point with a fantastic market changing solution to something. Do you have a “culture” of customer experience that is commonly known in our organization? We work for our crowd.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Im still able to surprise people who have worked with me for awhile with how quickly I can turn their feature ideas into something they can play with and show customers. But it works. Tags: startupcto. Two very promising alternatives to rolling your own CI server are Devver and RunCodeRun.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

It has become an integral part of startup culture. Product Development In stage two, product development, everyone stops talking and starts working. Alpha/Beta Test In stage three, alpha/beta test, Engineering works with a small group of outside users to make sure that the product works as specified and tests it for bugs.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

If you’re having problems, don’t be afraid to tell people that you’re sorry and working on fixing it. I work for @MyCompany and we might be able to help. It doesn’t tell you what that tag really means, and, it doesn’t drive users to an action. I’m using Tweet Nest to archive my tweets ). Have a quirky office culture?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. When I first got to this B-52 base, I started asking: “What are we working on?”

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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 this culture of “make it happen&# emerge, etc.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

As you work to develop your product - before and after launch, its important that you use more than just "gut feelings" to ascertain whats working and whats not. It can be a cultural shift for a company to adopt virtualization. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I wrote about how you need to have an alignment of interest and trust in order for your offshore team to work. I also wrote about how company culture and incentives need to be different. It wasn’t country culture. The Seattle team would work with me to build the spec and the mockups. Tags: startupcto.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

While offices for everyone sound good on paper, moving everyone out of cubicles destroyed a culture of tight-knit interaction and communication. You can stop working like a startup and start working like a big company.” We took our eye off the business. It’s a tipping point to a big company culture.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It was a brawling “take no prisoners,” work hard, party hard, type of company. But his work ethic was legendary. Convergent was a 6-day a week 12-hour day company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Dinner in a Strange Land When I was in my mid 20′s working at ESL, I was sent overseas to a customer site where the customers were our three-letter intelligence agencies. All of us knew who they were, understood how important this site was for our country, and proud of the work we were doing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&# Uh, I think I work for the training department.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. Company : Wesabe.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best. The Editor works smoothly and allows you to interact with each variation. But don’t worry it’s a strong sales culture with great salesmanship that may certainly help you out at renewal time.”

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Extract and Archive Your Followers. Try running the scripts a couple of times to get them working. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Now I’m definitely using them for my work. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet.

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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. The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 A vertical market has a culture. The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Heres how it works. Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. And I especially thank you for proving that this technique can work in one of the most difficult and slow-moving industries on earth: automobiles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And if you meet their criteria of a “good student”, you ought to go to work there. Nothing makes me happier then to see my students getting great grades (and as they can tell you I make them very work hard for them.) And it hires very smart people from the best schools. Or Microsoft or IBM. You just get successful.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Since I had spent the last four years working on advanced Air Force electronic intelligence receivers , I thought there wouldn’t be anything new. Nothing I would work on in the next 30 years was as bleeding edge. Since this was a location that worked 24/7, I was on the night shift (my favorite time of the day.)

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Language and culture is not a major barrier. The impacting power of English in mainstream culture through the export of American movies, music and TV, and the advancement of US-based computer and Internet technologies have created a global culture. noon) and working late into the night. I myself thrive when the sun sets.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End? Well said.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

While understanding how customer’s do their work was one key part of Customer Discovery , I neglected the other key component – Customer Validation - to understand whether there were sufficient number of customers who had a problem that needed to be solved – and would pay to solve it. But there was one fatal flaw.

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