Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

This user/customer-centered approach is a huge step in the right direction in the life science/health care commercialization. However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. jesskah UltraLean: Building Products Without a Dev Team Sandeep Sood. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Co-founder, Polyvore.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications. When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

— As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”. But it’s easy to get drowned out by the noise from Silicon Valley and other cities in Washington and Oregon. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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