Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To support sales, Marketing tries to “make up a better story,” and the web site and/or product presentation slides start changing (sometimes weekly or even daily). Reply Customer Development – Not Just for Web Startups » Biotech by the Bay , on May 1, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: [.] The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. Don’t we have to get the site/plugins up and running before we gather information from users? Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma. It’s taking time and effort to the build the prototype.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. I am currently a young entreprenuer working on my first web-based start-up and I am using the Customer Development model Ash uses. Reply drewsing , on December 7, 2009 at 11:12 am Said: Wow.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Although it may or may not be in written form, it is reasonably common lore at Stanford that Terman was spider in the web, so to speak, that really set the wheels in motion for both Stanford’s place in “the valley&# as well as the valley’s place as a home to entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. I really enjoy your posts – thank you for taking time to place your experiences up on the web. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

steve The Difference Between Motion And Action | web pruned by monkeys , on November 12, 2009 at 11:05 pm Said: [.] Or do we culture the upstart cloudsters who can’t make substantive deals right away, but create a real foundation to the ecosystem of the ECGridOS Web Services API? Ideas anyone,?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. Thanks Steve!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), 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

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. Reply Treat Your Customers Like Children (or your Children like Customers) | Market By Numbers | Marketing Help , on January 9, 2010 at 2:02 pm Said: [.] gerais para o produto, mas sim provar a visão inicial do empreendedor.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

I do not want to necessarily start a flame war about particular creations of “Web 2.0 I can’t remember if they were in the Wired article or on the web site, but every once in a while I still go over to ebay and see if I can find any for sale. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I have been swinging for the fences for several years as a young entrepreneur at the executive leadership level for several start-ups and most recently starting my own. My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. I now have 6yr old and 3yr old boys. Now they’re even older.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? We’re about to ship next week.” to look at: when the plan (or process!)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

We plan to have the many large dishes assembled for Moon Bounce, connected with live feeds on line, so EME, so the public will be able to be listened to from the web. Maybe in your history, what we do could be known as commemorating “3 Letter Echoes&# instead of Eches of Apollo, our current 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! In Newark, a Vertical Indoor Farm Helps Anchor an Area’s Revival nytimes.com/glogin?URI=htt…. The future of responsive web design bit.ly/1Cxzvl0.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. Cray called two years ago and bought it back for parts for an unnamed customer still running one.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Reply Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1115,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) you know they’re expensive in time, dollars and resources.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Funding for the companies spinning out of Stanford’s engineering department in the 1950’s benefited from the tight integration and web of relationships between Fred Terman, Stanford, the U.S. There was none. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. On the web we can infer a person's intent using their actual behavior.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

I think the Volt open source platform could be managed through a Web 2.0-like I wouldn’t see it as a free-tunning movement, but more as a Web-2.0 with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. improvement system. It comes to my mind the “labs&# option in Gmail.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) They never understood Market Type.

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