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. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Reply steveblank , on June 29, 2009 at 1:07 am Said: Charlie, Nivi at Venture Hacks has great advice at [link] – look at the “Equity&# section. The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. steve Am I a Founder?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. So he had adopted Steve’s Lean LaunchPad class and was using The Startup Owner’s Manual as his core text. . ———– The 99%.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Startups in Bend.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. — — — — In this second segment, Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino talk about how they brought the Lean Startup to Japan. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

Hard for parents with K through 12 students at home trying to keep up with remote learning, and hard for instructors trying to master new barely functional tools and technology while trying to keep students engaged gazing at them through Hollywood Squares -style boxes. creating programs for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion e.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In the end, the CEO couldn’t get his board to give us the cash in exchange for the Japanese distribution rights and some equity. If you present slides privately, assume a high probability that your competitors will acquire them Do not put your trade secrets, proprietary algorithms, patentable technology, secret sauce, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. If you're in the technology business, that's like sacred ground. But my original background was in technology. We're in Santa Clara County.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming. Never leave.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. Startups don’t have access to the same resources or brand equity. via TechCrunch). At this point, the difference between marketing and growth hacking is still incredibly unclear.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

The force is bloated with overtime and over-policing in some areas, like the performative anti-terrorist presence on the Brooklyn Bridge that should get replaced with technology and under policing in others, like when it comes to curbing gun trafficking. But our police budget, which has grown by over 30% under de Blasio.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

At some point in my career as I began to formulate thoughts about mission and intent , I started to think about the broader role of marketing in a growing technology company. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

The funnest theme we discussed was John’s belief that the technology changes that are sweeping through society today are as important, dramatic and pervasive as those that swept across the world in the 1800′s during the industrial revolution. 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Ad Serving Technology. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Codeacademy.

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