Steve Blank

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Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurial clusters like Silicon Valley (or NY, Boston, Austin, Beijing, etc.) And for Silicon Valley the investor flight to social media marks the beginning of the end of the era of venture capital-backed big ideas in science and technology. (I’m an investor in many of these venture firms.)

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It Must Be A Marketing Problem

Steve Blank

There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” The standard corporate presentation wasn’t working, so the Boston sales rep made up his own. (I I asked for the Boston sales rep because in the U.S. they’re furthest from the Silicon Valley corporate office and any oversight.).

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) They would all work in this one company.

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You adapt, or you adopt, or you die

Steve Blank

I was in Boston and stopped by the Harvard Business Review for their IdeaCast podcast. 5:18 Why entrepreneurship thrived in Silicon Valley. 14:49 Engineers built products for themselves and the “next bench” 15:27 Why MBA’s avoided Silicon Valley. It’s worth a listen. 22:0o The team. 22:23 Rewards.

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We Have A Moral Obligation

Steve Blank

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. It’s worth a listen. Part of the answer is the title of this blog post. 10:01 Lean in Corporations.

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How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong

Steve Blank

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. Why It’s “SiliconValley. It might be its most important.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – Logistics

Steve Blank

One part of Silicon Valley culture that doesn’t get enough credit is the generosity of entrepreneurs and VC’s who are willing to share their time with students. Actually I made up my mind just on my plane to my final round of interview with the Boston Consulting Group. ——– Coming Soon.