Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. And even if you don’t win, participation in the event itself can open up your network and lead to possible future possibilities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. As a going away gift my roommates got me a joke disguise kit with a fake nose, glasses and mustache. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

So at times multiple ELINT planes would fly on a mission – one to run at the Soviet border appearing to attack, the other to pick up the signals from the air defense network as it responded to the intrusion. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. But where did they come from? Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of serial entrepreneur Steve [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Customer development isn’t just for [.] Reply Customer Development Oriented Lead Developer for Start-up – EventSession , on November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said: [.] understands and groks Customer Development. Customer development isn’t just for [.]

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JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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