Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. After talking to its resellers and customers I realized that SuperMac was the only company that could be described as “fifth in a group of three.” Why I was interested was equally obscure.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Of course we also hoped that in listening to their advice in how to build the perfect computer for customers just like them, they would actually buy one of the first computers. Our company’s stock was an inducement, but all of them were in it to help us build a better computer.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. The response from across the country?
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard.
Steve Blank
APRIL 2, 2009
It’s the decisions that you make that might cost you an order, a sale or a higher stock price. Just remember ethics and values are about what you practice when the going gets tough. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking.
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