Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Companies specializing in components and systems that operated in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum sprouted faster than fruit trees in the valley orchards. And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? Why was it occurring here?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. In most other companies a product-marketing department was responsible for the pricing, positioning and promotion of the product.

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JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.”

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JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. “And, oh by the way, can you write the manuals for the operators while you’re at it.&# As I poured over the system schematics, I figured out how to put together a course to teach system theory, operations and maintenance.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. It seems like a mountain, and yes, it is easy to almost substitute the process of lead gen and followup for closing. But, they need to fold this tech into their SDLC, which is no small commitment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. Cray’s first customers were the U.S.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Office and Operations. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Were not a venture capital firm.". Start-up | Mondays.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.]

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

That pretty much kills binary compatibility, however, which probably didn’t matter back then, because there were really no operating system ABIs. And in the end the hardware difference is pretty minor.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

proving that this “consumer purchase” is, in fact, a journey not a one-time use) Our leadership and vision earned marquee partnerships and champions in both the public & private sectors from the United Way of Central Texas, Partners in Parenting, Promise Venture Studio, IDEO and more! Our Monthly Active Users was 53%?—?(people

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The extra rent they were paying on palatial digs would have bought six months worth of runway… Reply Cy Quick , on May 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm Said: The same mechanism operates with nation-states and empires. The same principles operate in living as in business. Are his costs in control? Is the story over?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

To put that benchmark in context, the latest estimates place the total number of businesses operating in the U.S. Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns. Surprisingly different, actually.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

Klein, CEO of On Grid Ventures , will serve as the new Chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater NY. I will continue to work closely with the group, while continuing to serve as a Partner at ff Venture Capital. In the first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. 3) Internationalization.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Navy and the CIA were the primary collectors of tactical and operational ELINT on the Soviet PVO Strany Air Defense system. ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? During the 1950′s, the U.S. The NSA owned COMINT collection.)

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

Hunter Walk : You went from Wall St Trader to VC at OATV to operating side now at Haven , a logistics startup. So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. And I love being on the operating side. Click on that bio link in the previous line. Look for yourself.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

She was on the cover of Forbes Asia as a 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, a LinkedIn Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship, and was featured on BBC, CCTV, Inc., Prior to finishing business school, she founded A-Level Capital, the first student-led venture capital firm powered by Johns Hopkins students.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Sloan transferred responsibility down from corporate into each of the operating divisions (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac). One guy really did all of this.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

How are user-generated reviews changing how restaurants operate and how we eat? 12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital? Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital. 11:00 AM: Clay Shirky Presentation Ballroom D – Clay Shirky is just cool ([link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] … The tactics you can use to create demand for a new product differ significantly when you operate in a new vs. existing market. to look at: when the plan (or process!)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. And when I wasn’t reading, I was also teaching operations which gave me a pretty good understanding of what we were looking for on the other side.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. If you are interested in sponsoring the course, would love to hear from you as being part of a state institution in California provides its own special challenges. Venture News. ProfessorVC.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

As we ran our tests, our engineering team found ways to improve our graphic boards performance for these applications and they made revisions to the boards firmware (its operating instructions.) These were applications we had never seen or ran before when the boards were designed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

political leadership with a much bigger picture. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?) To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. How many did they have? How would they reach the U.S.?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

But a series of Zen-like moments helped me move to a different level that changed how I operated. It didn’t make my marketing skills any worse or better, but moved me to play forever on a different field.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Beginnings – “Vacuum Tube Valley&# Ecosystem circa 1950 From its founding in 1946 Stanford’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) did basic research into vacuum tubes that could operate at microwave frequencies. The research was funded and paid for by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and later by the Air Force and Army.

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