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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

Yet two smart VC firms, Sigma and Matrix Partners, realized that somewhere in this mess there was value. And with all of that they had gone broke, out of business and into Chapter 11. Their guess was that they would find value in the high margin graphics business.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

Reply One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog , on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Blank: “Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large [.] in Entrepreneur, VC, decision making.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I think they’re missing something.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

Also, there are a variety of strategies for “easing out&# gracefully such as finding an outsourcing vendor or new partner. I’ve watched new CEO’s brought into large existing consumer products companies to turn around a failing strategy. Their new strategy included a complete revamp and simplification of the product line.

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