Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Regarding the Atlas Developer Beta, John Gruber says that “Access to the beta program is $20″ — this is the new way and I like it. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blank and I have a good discussion about his and Eric Ries’ new customer development overlay. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

military missile program in the 1950′s (Atlas, Thor, etc.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. My Brothers Keeper During the Cold War, when Ted Hall was under suspicion of being a Soviet spy, his brother Ed Hall , stayed in the Air Force and worked on every U.S. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. We have vertical liftoff! To achieve this hugely ambitious vision, Joby has always sought key strategic partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

I am also a pilot, and computer engineer, and love to read stories about sigint and black aircraft programs. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Also, it would be nice to do something that helps this country (but not solely for that reason). Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

My team is setting the big dish up for Moon Bounce, which is quite difficult to do on chump change for 3 letter agency budgets, but we have the privelege of permission to put on a program on and aroud the 26 June. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event (as well as the Demo Day) takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Essentially, living in California and staying up to date with our China team 15 hours ahead means I’m always sort of in two time zones. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before? I attended in 2007.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

I was asked to explain why a marketing program that cost $150,000 bucks literally generated nothing in revenue for the company. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Historically, these were two guys with high testosterone. They hit each other with baseball bats until one of them dropped.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. By 1947 the U.S. military was funding half of Stanford’s engineering school budget. bombers. (The Microwave Valley was about to take off.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Everyone was using a road map that was designed for a very different location, yet they are surprised when they end up lost. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product. Marketing is at its peak.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. There’s the Alfred P.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. Texas is one of the only places where we can run a single Accelerator program across multiple cities. Many businesses expand geographically city by city.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Was our compensation program good, great? Key applications : At the time color desktop publishing customers used only four key applications: Page layout programs called Quark and PageMaker, a photo manipulation package called Photoshop, and a drawing program called Illustrator. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building. I was great at “office wars.”)

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. In October, UbiQD was one of the five selected companies for the Wells Fargo Incubator program. We are very humbled and excited to get into the Wells Fargo IN2 program.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I hate business plan competitions. making a plan and winning is like writing a great profile for dating.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. You actually have to design systems from the beginning so that the system itself has safety in every part and every check of every single product that you build.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. I have brought my wife in helping with the graphic design so she can be part of it and feel the intensity and fun.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

The ESL equipment were racks of the latest semiconductors designed into a system so complicated that the mean-time-between-failure was measured in days. Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. We could do what!? From where??)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The information we collected would be passed on to defense contractors who would build the jammers to confuse the Soviet air defense radars.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. When you got off the elevator, you faced a non descript corporate-looking set of walls.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. These programs dwarfed the size that any single commercial company could do by itself. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. During the cold war, the U.S. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Get a blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Like all government programs, the SBIC was fond of paperwork, but it began to formalize, professionalize and standardize the way investors evaluated risk.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

But it is much harder to program the nuances of emotion, societal context and overall ethical considerations that humans learn from their biggest mistakes. The program, which was piloted over the last year, requires AI researchers to consider the ethics of their projects before they can receive funding from HAI.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

But it is much harder to program the nuances of emotion, societal context and overall ethical considerations that humans learn from their biggest mistakes. The program, which was piloted over the last year, requires AI researchers to consider the ethics of their projects before they can receive funding from HAI.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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