Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. For non-coders: Make a quick prototype in PowerPoint, or. JustinMind , Balsamiq ).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential. A founding web/mobile team without a coder past the initial stages of Customer Discovery is not a startup. And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. First, there’s virtually no seed or angel investment capital, since affluent Colombian investors are highly risk-averse and put their money into real estate and established companies as a rule.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. First, there’s virtually no seed or angel investment capital, since affluent Colombian investors are highly risk-averse and put their money into real estate and established companies as a rule.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. A lifestyle entrepreneur is living the life they love, works for no one but themselves, while pursuing their personal passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Hang out at the Red Rock Café at night to watch the coders at work trying to stay caffeinated. While in Mountain View drive by the site of Shockley Semiconductor and realize that from this one failed company, founded the same year Lockheed set up shop, came every other chip company in Silicon Valley.

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