Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.)

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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. How effective they were?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. This means they could fund other non-military academic programs from this overhead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

We talked about how her background has made her well-suited for this kind of civic engagement, her relationship to the tech world, how she scaled the organization so quickly and much more. However, like so many of us, her 2020 plans were put on hold due to the pandemic. A full transcript of the show follows the resources below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Common-yet-sticky situations are everywhere, and no VC and few attorney bloggers (but you, apparently) gives them the due attention they deserve.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) The bill had come due. Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. If you wanted your own applications, you had to write them yourself.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

What reviews did they trust? 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. Which ones?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. It was a full service travel agency tech platform that was quite old and it was quite problematic. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

We started out serving charter schools, very quickly expanded our program to be able to be relevant for public district schools. Even up until this year, probably three quarters of our business was in schools and then the remaining part of the work that we did was in afterschool programs, preschools. What is our super power?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Songza demonstrates great use of technology, but not in an in your face look at how smart we are way. ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! the reviews.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). What’s the average of a 12-year old girl in California and a 50-year old man in Toronto? Edwards Deming.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More. » More. Loading… Business. » More. » More.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? Sydney Gressel : I've got to say, I've been like, "Oh, so this is how the tech world is, huh, guys?" And Frank and I having come from tech said, "Oh, why don't we just open source this and we'll make it available for everyone?" I am Eric Ries.

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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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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. 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. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â??

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says.

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